Visual perception of deaf children to inform interaction of tools for literacy

  • Authors:

  • Juliana Bueno;Cayley Guimarães;André Luiz Alencar de Mendonça;Laura Sánchez García;Rubens Massayuki Suguimoto

  • Affiliations:

  • Informatics Department, Federal University of Paraná, Centro Politécnico, Jardim das Américas, Curitiba, PR, Brazil;Informatics Department, Federal University of Paraná, Centro Politécnico, Jardim das Américas, Curitiba, PR, Brazil;Informatics Department, Federal University of Paraná, Centro Politécnico, Jardim das Américas, Curitiba, PR, Brazil;Informatics Department, Federal University of Paraná, Centro Politécnico, Jardim das Américas, Curitiba, PR, Brazil;Informatics Department, Federal University of Paraná, Centro Politécnico, Jardim das Américas, Curitiba, PR, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • UAHCI'13 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction: user and context diversity - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

The Deaf community has its own culture, a term applied to the social movement that holds Deafness to be a difference in human experience, rather than a disability. The disability view of Deafness has deprived the Deaf of natural language acquisition, which is crucial for intellectual development. Human-Computer Interaction should be held accountable to better understand the needs of the Deaf community to inform design. There is a lack of tools for visual literacy of the Deaf (i.e. a learning process for teaching to read based on image interpretations). This research proposes an online environment that educators and designers could use to evaluate visual characteristics of the Deaf. The environment contains four tests designed to assess visual perception and subjective preference. The case study within a classroom context validated the environment. Designers could use the results of their testing to inform design.