Improving classroom visual accessibility with cooperative smartphone recordings

Authors:
Raja S. Kushalnagar;Brian P. Trager
Affiliations:
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY;Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Venue:
ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society - Special Issue on Selected Papers from ISTAS 2011
Year:
2011

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Abstract

An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS) at Saint Xavier University in Chicago, Illinois (and printed in the 2011 ISTAS proceedings). We propose a cooperative approach by students in recording lecture activities such that the classroom becomes more visually accessible for everyone, especially for deaf, hard of hearing and low-vision students. Students utilize their personal camera-equipped smart phones to capture and share their views of a visually inaccessible classroom to students' devices. We show this approach virtually retrofits a classroom to make it a more visually accessible learning environment. This approach can be used in meetings to get and share optimal views of the meeting for all participants.