Paper Info
Title
Social Networking Sites And Deaf And Hard Of Hearing People In Jordan : Characteristics And Preferences
Abstract
Social Networking Sites (SNSs) impact on deaf and hard of hearing people (D/HoH) and characteristics of deaf people in Jordan were investigated in this paper. The main purpose of this paper is to show whether deaf people can effectively use and communicate through SNSs. To this end, a questionnaire was used to find the preferences and experiences of deaf people on SNSs. It was distributed to 138 deaf people. Furthermore, some demographic characteristics of the sample were discussed in the paper. This survey shows how SNSs are integrated with deaf people as a communication tool and the positive impact resulted from using them. It was found that Arabic sign language is most frequently used more than any other communication mode. In addition, they communicate with individuals with hearing loss using sign language more often than using written and spoken language. It was reported that they used SNSs once or more times per day. Furthermore, the most used SNSs website is Facebook, then WhatsApp comes second. Smartphones are used more frequently than any other devices. Last but not least, they use SNSs to exchange photos and watch videos more often than any other purposes and this is highly related to their reading and writing skills.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/AICCSA.2018.8612893
2018 IEEE/ACS 15TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS (AICCSA)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Deaf and Hard of Hearing (D/HoH), Social Networking Sites (SNSs), Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), Captions, E-Learning, Preferences
Internet privacy,Using sign language,Social network,Computer science,Computer network,Gesture recognition,Hearing loss,Writing skills,Spoken language,Arabic sign language
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2161-5322
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Walaa Al-Sarayrah100.34
Ahmad Al-Aiad201.01
Yaser Jararweh396888.95