Towards a service integration portal for deaf people

  • Authors:

  • Christophe Ponsard;Christiane Broekman;Cécile Lamy;Martine Fraiture

  • Affiliations:

  • CETIC Research Center, Charleroi, Belgium;ISTI, High School for translators and interpreters;CRETH, University of Namur, Belgium;Deaf Federation, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • ICCHP'06 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

High speed connections have enabled video-based communication and given deaf and hard-of-hearing people the opportunity to rely on the visual modality to better communicate with each other and with hearing people. However a number of obstacles still have to be removed to make this technology really accessible for all: technical expertise for operating a computer, lack of compatibility, poorly integrated services,... This papers describes an ongoing project for providing a better accessibility by (1) supporting multiple kind of user terminals (such as PC, videophone, TV, mobile phone) in an interoperable way; (2) with a simple and user friendly interface, (3) giving access to a number of related services such as directories, video message box, relay centre and signed news