BY PEARL & JANELLE

Interface for the Deaf: Pilot Study

Introduction

The interface is specially build for deaf community by NCDHR (National Center for Deaf Health Research) in collaboration with Rochester Institute of Technology and University of Rochester. The interface has signers using different sign languages like American sign Language (ASL), Signed English and Interpreters along with the English text appearing on screen. It has different age groups, gender and race for the signers. The survey tool will have question related to health and medical problems.

Purpose of This Study

To see the influence on people with the change in signer’s gender and the type of question (Personal/Non-Personal).

Interface being developed for deaf students We were not allowed to use the actual interface

This is a pilot Study Experimentation to lead to other studies

Participants

6 participants All males Some form of hearing loss

We were not allowed to use deaf studentsNo signer was needed for this study

Setup

Tools Used SMI eye tracker Experiment Center BeGaze

Stimuli Two screenshots of the AOI side by side One side has a male signer and the other has a female

signerExperiment set up in Experiment Center

Two experiment files created to have the male and female signers switched

Example of our Experiment Setup

Non- Personal Question

Results: AOI Sequence Charts

Personal Question

Results: AOI Sequence Charts

Non-Personal Question

Results: Binning chart

Personal Question

Results: Binning Chart

Non-Personal Question

Results: Heat Maps

Personal Question

Results: Heat Maps

Results: ScanPath