HCC-Small: DHH Cyber-Community - Supporting Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students in STEM Fields

HCC-Small：DHH 网络社区 - 支持 STEM 领域的聋哑和听力障碍学生

• 批准号: 0915268
• 负责人: Richard Ladner
• 金额: $ 49.99万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-15 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0915268&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HCC; Small; DHH; Cyber; Community

Succeeding in mainstream universities (at all levels) involves extra challenges for deaf and hard of hearing students. Skilled sign language interpreters and captioners with advanced domain knowledge are often difficult to find, multiple visual channels of information in the classroom can be hard to juggle, and collaboration both inside and outside the classroom is often strained due to language barriers. Furthermore, translation of advanced STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) topics into American Sign Language (ASL) is far from standardized, and often requires discussion between students and interpreters to devise consistent signs. Better access to classroom activities and a consistent, conceptually clear signing system for STEM topics are both vitally needed in order for deaf and hard of hearing students to advance in the sciences. Thus, in this project the PI will design, implement, and evaluate two distinct yet interconnected technologies. The first of these is ClassInFocus, a classroom platform to help students access remote interpreters and captioners, avoid visual dispersion, and facilitate interaction in the classroom. ClassInFocus will utilize the existing high bandwidth internet connections at multiple universities to create more opportunity for finding the best qualified interpreter or captioner for specific STEM topics. Designing, implementing, and evaluating technological solutions that best meet the educational needs of deaf and hard of hearing students is a challenging research problem; this immersive technology that brings many different technical and human resources into the classroom in an accessible and unobtrusive way is new to the field. ASL-STEM Forum, the second thrust of this work, will be an on-line video forum to facilitate discussion about signing for STEM topics. Visual collaboration between members of the community, in this case the Deaf Community, is important to ensure natural, conceptually correct, and community approved language progression. Designing, implementing, and evaluating a cyberinfrastructure solution to facilitate discussion about ASL vocabulary and grammar for STEM content, that will eventually serve as a resource for students, teachers, and interpreters involved in ASL for STEM fields, is another challenging research problem. Using social networking techniques to engage the deaf and hard of hearing community in discussions about ASL topics and vocabulary in STEM fields is entirely new to the field. This research will involve collaboration with the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology, Gallaudet University, and the Shodor Education Foundation.Broader Impacts: The new technologies to be developed as outcomes of this research will enable deaf and hard of hearing students to better access the STEM fields by improving the learning environment and the linguistic access to STEM content. Not only does this increase the likelihood that deaf people will attain college and graduate degrees, it will increase the participation of deaf and hard of hearing people in the development and research of new technology. Other students may also benefit from this technology, as digital notes and captions provide alternative access for students with learning disabilities and create opportunities for searchable archives of class content.

在各个层面上取得成功的大学（在各个层面）中，聋哑学生和听力障碍的学生涉及额外的挑战。 经常很难找到具有高级领域知识的熟练手语口译员和标题者，教室中的多个视觉渠道可能很难兼顾，并且在教室内外，由于语言障碍，教室内部和外部的协作经常会紧张。 此外，将高级STEM（科学，技术，工程和数学）主题转换为美国手语（ASL）远非标准化，并且通常需要学生和口译员之间的讨论来设计一致的标志。 为了使聋人和难以听见的学生在科学中进步，因此可以更好地访问课堂活动，并在概念上进行一致的，概念上清晰的签名系统。 因此，在这个项目中，PI将设计，实施和评估两种不同但相互联系的技术。 首先是ClassInfocus，这是一个教室平台，可帮助学生访问远程口译员和字幕，避免视觉分散并促进教室中的互动。 ClassInfocus将利用多个大学的现有高带宽Internet连接，以创造更多的机会，以找到特定STEM主题的最佳合格口译员或标题。 设计，实施和评估最能满足聋人教育需求和听力障碍学生的技术解决方案是一个具有挑战性的研究问题；这种沉浸式技术将许多不同的技术和人力资源以一种易于访问且不引人注目的方式进入教室是该领域的新手。 ASL-STEM论坛是这项工作的第二个主力，将是一个在线视频论坛，旨在促进有关签署STEM主题的讨论。 社区成员之间的视觉合作，在这种情况下为聋人社区，对于确保自然，概念上正确和社区认可的语言进步非常重要。 设计，实施和评估网络基础设施解决方案，以促进有关STEM含量的ASL词汇和语法的讨论，这些解决方案最终将成为ASL参与ASL涉及STEM领域的学生，老师和口译员的资源，这是另一个具有挑战性的研究问题。 使用社交网络技术使聋哑人和听力社区的难题与STEM领域的ASL主题和词汇进行讨论是该领域的新事物。 这项研究将涉及与罗切斯特理工学院，加洛德大学和Shodor Education Foundation的国家聋人技术研究所的合作。BROADERIMPACTS：随着这项研究的结果，将开发出的新技术将使聋哑人能够通过改善学习环境和语言学上的词干访问STEM访问STEM领域，从而使聋哑学生能够更好地访问STEM领域。 这不仅增加了聋哑人获得大学和研究生学位的可能性，而且会增加聋人的参与，并努力听到人们参与新技术的发展和研究。 其他学生也可能会从这项技术中受益，因为数字笔记和字幕为学习障碍的学生提供了替代访问权限，并为课堂内容的可搜索档案创造了机会。