Bringing Text Display Digital Radio to Consumers with Hearing Loss
ARTICLE
Ellyn G. Sheffield, Michael Starling, Daniel Schwab
Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education Volume 16, Number 4, ISSN 1081-4159
Abstract
Radio is migrating to digital transmission, expanding its offerings to include captioning for individuals with hearing loss. Text display radio requires a large amount of word throughput with minimal screen display area, making good user interface design crucial to its success. In two experiments, we presented hearing, hard-of-hearing, and deaf consumers with National Public Radio stories converted to text and examined their preferences for and reactions to midsized and small radio text displays. We focused on physical display attributes such as text color, font style, line length, and scrolling type as well as emergency alert messages and emergency prompts for drivers, announcer identification schemes, and synchronization of audio and text. Results suggest that midsized, Global Positioning System (GPS)-style displays were well liked, synchronization of audio and text was important to comprehension and retrieval of story details, identification of announcers was served best with a combination of name change in parenthesis and color change, and a mixture of color and flashing symbols was preferred for emergency alerting.
Citation
Sheffield, E.G., Starling, M. & Schwab, D. (2011). Bringing Text Display Digital Radio to Consumers with Hearing Loss. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 16(4), 537-552. Retrieved August 9, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/52659/.
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