Abstract
A surdez é um problema muitas vezes desvalorizado, mas crescente entre a população mundial. Além da dificuldade em ouvir sons, envolve problemas cognitivos e emocionais, como dificuldades de aprendizagem, isolamento e incapacitação. Neste artigo, o design aplicado à surdez é analisado sob duas perspectivas diferentes: a tecnologia e as ciência da comunicação. Em relação às questões técnicas, a investigação mostra como a Realidade Aumentada pode ser aplicada através de interfaces ou óculos inteligentes que transformam os sons em estímulos visuais; do ponto de vista da comunicação, o foco está na narração de histórias e como estas podem ser articuladas com a tecnologia mencionada para envolver as pessoas, aprimorando as atividades de aprendizagem e a ligação com a comunidade. Analizando esses dois aspectos, a abordagem aqui sugerida é juntá-los num projeto conceptual criativo que possa ser atraente e útil ao público, por meio da utilização de histórias interativas, ao mesmo tempo que é aproveitado os benefícios visuais de uma experiência imersiva com a Realidade Aumentada.
Highlights
Communication is a crucial aspect inside a community: sounds, voices, images, gestures are key elements for people to express themselves and interact with their surroundings
Devices as the one used by the National Theatre are useful because they allow students to follow lectures without having to switch their eyes between the teacher, the notebook and the sign language interpreter: studies have shown that displaying the sign language video directly on the smart glasses lenses with Augmented Reality (AR) reduces the effects of visual field switches and makes the lecture easier to follow (Miller et al, 2017)
In “The importance of storytelling to address deaf disempowerment” article (Suggs, 2018), the author pointed out the need of sharing common knowledge about deafness issues and related problems, first of all, the disempowerment originating from the severe lack of data and resources available for Deaf and/or Hard of Hearing (DHH) people’s instruction
Summary
Communication is a crucial aspect inside a community: sounds, voices, images, gestures are key elements for people to express themselves and interact with their surroundings. This is what inclusive communication is trying to do, through the help of technology. In this context, the word “inclusive” refers to all the types of communication systems that are used to transmit information not just through written text or oral speech, and through gestures, facial expressions, body language, pictures, signs, and objects. Communication should be accessible to everybody, regardless of disabilities or conditions that can prevent people from understanding written or pronounced words. This paper outlines the condition of deafness, where the lack of proper understanding of sounds has to be compensated by an increased amount of visual stimuli. AR can be used as a tool to engage people into new experiences, because human-to-human interaction is related with the transmission of information, but it regards the ability to live together in society, sharing stories and experiences
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