Design and Evaluation of an Automatic Text Simplification Prototype with Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Readers

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

10-27-2024

Abstract

Research has observed benefts from providing lexical and syntactic approaches to Automatic Text Simplifcation (ATS) to Deaf and Hard-of-hearing (DHH) readers. However, little research has explored DHH readers' design preferences and interactions with these approaches. This work frst explores the design space of ATS systems with DHH readers, identifying potential design confgurations for evaluation. Open-ended discussion of participants' design preferences reveal values informing those preferences, including maintaining reading fuency and efciency, and control over the tool. Using popular design choices from our formative study, we evaluated a prototype that provides various simplifcation types to explore DHH readers' interactions with the system. We observed potential conficts between participants' values and design preferences, such as the prototype's impact on participants' reading speed and participants' perceived need to reread simplifcations suggested by the tool. However, participants found the tool useful, showing a nuanced preference towards world-level lexical simplifcations using pop-ups. Our fndings highlight the importance of the tool's design on users' reading experiences, and provide implications for the design and evaluation of ATS prototypes with target readers.

Identifier

85211508436 (Scopus)

ISBN

[9798400706776]

Publication Title

ASSETS 2024 - Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1145/3663548.3675645

Grant

1822747

Fund Ref

National Science Foundation

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