Do Sign Language Videos Improve Web Navigation for Deaf Signer Users?

• Published in: Journal of deaf studies and deaf education Vol. 15; no. 3; pp. 242 - 262
• Main Authors: Fajardo, Inmaculada, Parra, Elena, Cañas, José J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cary, NC Oxford University Press 01.07.2010; Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
• Subjects: Auditory perception; Automobiles; Biological and medical sciences; Classification; Comparative Analysis; Correlation; Correlation analysis; Deaf education; Deafness; Deafness - epidemiology; Ear, auditive nerve, cochleovestibular tract, facial nerve: diseases, semeiology; Empirical Articles; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Handicap; Humans; Hyperlinks; Information search; Internet; Internet - statistics & numerical data; Medical sciences; Music education; Musical instruments; Navigation; Navigational aids; Non tumoral diseases; Otorhinolaryngology. Stomatology; Psychology and medicine; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Search Strategies; Searches; Sign Language; Teaching Methods; Video; Video Technology; Videotape Recording; Human; Sign language; Use; Auditory disorder; ENT disease; Information retrieval; Internet; Sensory handicap; Performance; Hearing loss

The efficacy of video-based sign language (SL) navigation aids to improve Web search for Deaf Signers was tested by two experiments. Experiment 1 compared 2 navigation aids based on text hyperlinks linked to embedded SL videos, which differed in the spatial contiguity between the text hyperlink and...