TY - GEN
T1 - Urgent mobile tool for hearing impaired, language dysfunction and foreigners at emergency situation
AU - Hosono, Naotsune
AU - Nakanishi, Miwa
AU - Inoue, Hiromitsu
AU - Tomita, Yutaka
PY - 2014/9/23
Y1 - 2014/9/23
N2 - This paper introduces a mobile application that allows deaf, language dysfunctioned, or non-native language users to report emergencies. An earlier version (booklet) was designed for hearing impaired person to be able to communicate with others without speaking. The current smart phone application allows calls to be made from a remote location. The screen transitions application follows the dialogue models used by emergency services. Users interact with the dialogues by tapping on icons or pictograms instead of using text messages. Evaluation by deaf people and a non-native speaker found that it was about three times quicker to report an emergency using this tool than it was by using text messages.
AB - This paper introduces a mobile application that allows deaf, language dysfunctioned, or non-native language users to report emergencies. An earlier version (booklet) was designed for hearing impaired person to be able to communicate with others without speaking. The current smart phone application allows calls to be made from a remote location. The screen transitions application follows the dialogue models used by emergency services. Users interact with the dialogues by tapping on icons or pictograms instead of using text messages. Evaluation by deaf people and a non-native speaker found that it was about three times quicker to report an emergency using this tool than it was by using text messages.
KW - Accessibility
KW - Context of use
KW - Human centred design
KW - Human computer interface
KW - Mobile
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U2 - 10.1145/2628363.2633568
DO - 10.1145/2628363.2633568
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84908584300
T3 - MobileHCI 2014 - Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
SP - 413
EP - 416
BT - MobileHCI 2014 - Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 16th ACM International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2014
Y2 - 23 September 2014 through 26 September 2014
ER -