Paper Info
Title
Using mobile devices to support communication between emergency medical responders and deaf people
Abstract
Fast and effective communication is crucial during medical emergencies, but patients' disabilities can make it a challenging task for emergency medical responders. This paper proposes a mobile system to deal with the communication barrier between medical responders and deaf patients. The system allows medical responders to quickly browse a collection of emergency-related sentences, and show videos of the corresponding translations in sign language to the deaf patients. The design process involved experts in emergency medicine as well as experts from the deaf community. The evaluation carried out on ten emergency medical responders and ten deaf subjects showed that the system is useful to support communication with deaf people during medical emergencies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1851600.1851605
Mobile HCI
Keywords
Field
DocType
communication barrier,deaf subject,effective communication,medical responder,mobile device,deaf people,medical emergency,emergency medical responder,deaf patient,emergency medicine,deaf community,computer mediated communication,mobile devices,design process,sign language
Deaf community,Psychology,Mobile device,Sign language,Computer-mediated communication,Medical emergency,Multimedia
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.68
12
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fabio Buttussi129824.49
Luca Chittaro22083177.40
Elio Carchietti3533.95
Marco Coppo4191.80