Understanding How Deaf and Hard of Hearing Viewers Visually Explore Captioned Live TV News
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
4-30-2023
Abstract
Captions blocking visual information in live television news leads to dissatisfaction among Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) viewers, who cannot see important information on the screen. Prior work has proposed generic guidelines for caption placement but not specifically for live television news, and important genre of television with dense placement of onscreen information regions, e.g., current news topic, scrolling news, etc. To understand DHH viewers' gaze behavior while watching television news, both spatially and temporally, we conducted an eye-Tracking study with 19 DHH participants. Participants' gaze behavior varied over time as measured by their proportional fixation time on information regions on the screen. An analysis of gaze behavior coupled with open-ended feedback revealed four thematic categories of information regions. Our work motivates considering the time dimension when considering caption placement, to avoid blocking information regions, as their importance varies over time.
Identifier
85158129580 (Scopus)
ISBN
[9798400707483]
Publication Title
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
External Full Text Location
https://doi.org/10.1145/3587281.3587287
First Page
54
Last Page
65
Grant
90DPCP0002-0100
Fund Ref
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Recommended Citation
Amin, Akhter Al; Hassan, Saad; Lee, Sooyeon; and Huenerfauth, Matt, "Understanding How Deaf and Hard of Hearing Viewers Visually Explore Captioned Live TV News" (2023). Faculty Publications. 1770.
https://digitalcommons.njit.edu/fac_pubs/1770