Title
Empirical Investigation of Users' Preferred Timing Parameters for American Sign Language Animations
Abstract
To make it easier to add American Sign Language (ASL) to websites, which would increase information accessibility for many Deaf users, we investigate software to semi-automatically produce ASL animation from an easy-to-update script of the message, requiring us to automatically select the speed and timing for the animation. While we can model speed and timing of human signers from video recordings, prior work has suggested that users prefer animations to be slower than videos of humans signers. However, no prior study had systematically examined the multiple parameters of ASL timing, which include: sign duration, transition time, pausing frequency, pausing duration, and differential signing rate. In an experimental study, 16 native ASL signers provided subjective preference judgements during a side-by-side comparison of ASL animations in which each of these five parameters was varied. We empirically identified and report users' preferences for each of these individual timing parameters of ASL animation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3334480.3382989
CHI '20: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Honolulu HI USA April, 2020
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
American Sign Language, Accessibility for Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing, Natural Language Processing, Speed, Timing, Human Computer Interaction
Conference
978-1-4503-6819-3
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sedeeq Al-khazraji132.80
Becca Dingman213.07
Matt Huenerfauth342851.83