How the blind audience receive and experience audio descriptions of visual events

Jana Holsanova; Roger Johansson; Viveka Lyberg Åhlander

How the blind audience receive and experience audio descriptions of visual events – a project presentation

Jana Holsanova, Roger Johansson, Viveka Lyberg Åhlander

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Abstract

We present a three-year multidisciplinary research project that started in 2019 and is funded by FORTE (Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare). The theoretical aim of the project is to gain a better understanding of the principles that underlie successful communication between the sighted and the blind via audio description (AD). The aim of a series of experiments is to identify similarities and differences in how the sighted and the blind understand, segment and experience visual, spatial as well as temporal properties of an event. The applied goal is to increase the quality of AD and to support the training of audio de-scribers and AD practices, and ultimately facilitate the understanding and accessibility of visual information for the visually impaired.

Original language	English
Pages	39-41
Number of pages	3
Publication status	Published - 2020 Jul 3
Event	Swiss Conference on Barrier-free Communication - online, Zurich, Switzerland Duration: 2020 Jun 29 → 2020 Jul 4 Conference number: 3rd

Conference

Conference	Swiss Conference on Barrier-free Communication
Abbreviated title	BfC
Country/Territory	Switzerland
City	Zurich
Period	2020/06/29 → 2020/07/04

Bibliographical note

3rd Swiss Conference on Barrier-free Communication, 29 June – 4 July 2020

Subject classification (UKÄ)

Information Systems, Social aspects (including Human Aspects of ICT)
Media and Communication Studies
Psychology (excluding Applied Psychology)

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Holsanova_et_al.2020Final published version, 142 KBLicence: CC BY-ND

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How the blind audience receive and experience audio descriptions of visual events – a project presentation

Abstract

Conference

Bibliographical note

Subject classification (UKÄ)

Access to Document

Other files and links

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Event segmentation in the audio description of films: A case study

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A cognitive approach to audio description: production and reception processes

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Human and automated audio description for media accessibility

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Cite this

How the blind audience receive and experience audio descriptions of visual events – a project presentation

Abstract

Conference

Bibliographical note

Subject classification (UKÄ)

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Research output

Event segmentation in the audio description of films: A case study

The Influence of Narrative Specificity and Voice Quality when Listening to Audio Descriptions: a Comparison of the Sighted and the Blind

A cognitive approach to audio description: production and reception processes

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