TY - CHAP
T1 - Developing accessibility multimedia services
T2 - The case of EasyTV
AU - Konstantinidis, Dimitrios
AU - Dimitropoulos, Kosmas
AU - Stefanidis, Kiriakos
AU - Kalvourtzis, Thanassis
AU - Gannoum, Salim
AU - Kaklanis, Nikolaos
AU - Votis, Konstantinos
AU - Daras, Petros
AU - Rovira-Esteva, Sara
AU - Orero, Pilar
AU - Uribe, Silvia
AU - Moreno, Francisco
AU - Llorente, Alvaro
AU - Calleja, Pablo
AU - Poveda-Villalón, Maria
AU - Andriani, Pasquale
AU - Vitolo, Giuseppe
AU - Caruso, Giuseppa
AU - Manes, Nicolamaria
AU - Giacomelli, Fabrizio
AU - Fabregat, Jordi
AU - Mas, Francesc
AU - Mata, Jordi
AU - Skourtis, Stavros
AU - Bourlis, Chrysostomos
AU - Frittelli, Giuliano
AU - Lago, Emilio Ferreiro
AU - Alvarez, Federico
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 ACM.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/6/30
Y1 - 2020/6/30
N2 - People with various degrees of disabilities (e.g., visually or hearing impaired) often find it difficult to access mainstream products and services and thus they are excluded from enjoying audio-visual services on an equal basis as people without disabilities. These people feel marginalized in today's digital society and they are unable to reach their maximum potential personally, professionally and socially. EasyTV aims to address these issues by providing numerous services that not only ease the access of people with disabilities to multimedia services, but also enhance interaction with the media through a multi-language approach that adapts content based on user's preferences. In this work, the main EasyTV services are described in detail. Furthermore, an evaluation of the main services by end users is presented and discussed in order to highlight the importance of offering accessibility services to people with disabilities.
AB - People with various degrees of disabilities (e.g., visually or hearing impaired) often find it difficult to access mainstream products and services and thus they are excluded from enjoying audio-visual services on an equal basis as people without disabilities. These people feel marginalized in today's digital society and they are unable to reach their maximum potential personally, professionally and socially. EasyTV aims to address these issues by providing numerous services that not only ease the access of people with disabilities to multimedia services, but also enhance interaction with the media through a multi-language approach that adapts content based on user's preferences. In this work, the main EasyTV services are described in detail. Furthermore, an evaluation of the main services by end users is presented and discussed in order to highlight the importance of offering accessibility services to people with disabilities.
KW - accessibility
KW - artificial intelligence
KW - interaction
KW - personalization
KW - semantics
KW - sign language
U2 - 10.1145/3389189.3397973
DO - 10.1145/3389189.3397973
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781450377737
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 280
EP - 287
BT - 13th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2020 - Conference Proceedings
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
ER -