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dc.contributor.authorBlake, Edwin H.
dc.contributor.authorTucker, William David
dc.contributor.authorGlaser, Meryl
dc.date.accessioned2015-04-14T14:19:59Z
dc.date.available2015-04-14T14:19:59Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationBlake, E. et al. (2014). Towards communication and information access for deaf people. SACJ, (54), 10–19.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1015-7999
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/1424
dc.description.abstractIn tightly circumscribed communication situations, an interactive system resident on a mobile device can assist Deaf people with their communication and information needs. The Deaf users considered here use South African Sign Language and information is conveyed by a collection of pre-recorded video clips and images. The system was designed and implemented according to our method of community-based co-design. We present several stages of the development as a series of case studies and highlight our experience and the implications for design. The first stage involved ethnographically inspired methods such as cultural probes. In the next stage we co-designed a medical consultation system that was ultimately dropped for technical reasons. A smaller system was developed for pharmaceutical dispensing and successfully implemented and tested. It now awaits deployment in an actual pharmacy. We also developed a preliminary authoring tool to tackle the problem of content generation for interactive computer literacy training. We are also working on another medical health information tool. We intend that a generic authoring tool be able to generate mobile applications for all of these scenarios. These mobile applications bridge communication gaps for Deaf people via accessible and affordable assistive technologyen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipSANPADen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSAICSITen_US
dc.subjectAssistive technologyen_US
dc.subjectAuthoring toolsen_US
dc.subjectO-designen_US
dc.subjectHealthcareen_US
dc.subjectInformation and communication technology for developmenten_US
dc.subjectInternational computer driver's licenseen_US
dc.subjectMobile computingen_US
dc.subjectPharmacyen_US
dc.titleTowards communication and information access for deaf peopleen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterfalse
dc.status.ispeerreviewedtrue
dc.description.accreditationDepartment of HE and Training approved listen_US


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