Information Accessibility Strategies for Supporting User Experience of Hearing-Impaired Learners

m-Learning for Hearing Impaired Learners: Dimensions of Evaluation

Integrating information and communication technologies (ICT) in education is a very important factor to learning, regarding student centered learning environments. Special education thus, is a field where mobile technologies can be used very efficiently for less financial burden due to its small scale in student number in normal schools. These technologies are also known assistive technologies ...

Automated Generation of Indoor Accessibility Information for Mobility-Impaired Individuals

One section of the general population that can greatly benefit from the current interest in indoor navigation systems comprises the various disabled groups. In developing assistive navigation systems an important issue is how to obtain information relevant for navigation from the perspective of these special user groups. The theory of affordances coupled with computer-based simulation offers a ...

Strategies for the Inclusion of Hearing Impaired People

The Information Gathering Strategies of API Learners

API users experience significant difficulties when learning how to use APIs, but little is known about the strategies used to overcome these difficulties, the motivation for each strategy, or the trade-offs between the strategies. To better understand the information seeking strategies of API users, we conducted a study in which 20 participants were asked to complete programming tasks using unf...

Strategies for Supporting Consumer Health Information Seeking

Despite a growing number of available Web-based health information resources, consumers continue to face a variety of barriers as they attempt to access these resources. Developing a system that appropriately responds to user queries poses several challenges. Guided by an earlier study that analyzed a large number of queries submitted to ClinicalTrials.gov, we developed a variety of techniques ...