Design and Evaluation of an Automatic Text Simplification Prototype with Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Readers
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Oliver Alonzo, 
Sooyeon Lee, 
Akhter Al Amin, Mounica Maddela, Wei Xu, 
Matt HuenerfauthAuthors Info & Claims
Article No.: 40, Pages 1 - 18
Abstract
Research has observed benefits from providing lexical and syntactic approaches to Automatic Text Simplification (ATS) to Deaf and Hard-of-hearing (DHH) readers. However, little research has explored DHH readers’ design preferences and interactions with these approaches. This work first explores the design space of ATS systems with DHH readers, identifying potential design configurations for evaluation. Open-ended discussion of participants’ design preferences reveal values informing those preferences, including maintaining reading fluency and efficiency, and control over the tool. Using popular design choices from our formative study, we evaluated a prototype that provides various simplification types to explore DHH readers’ interactions with the system. We observed potential conflicts between participants’ values and design preferences, such as the prototype’s impact on participants’ reading speed and participants’ perceived need to reread simplifications suggested by the tool. However, participants found the tool useful, showing a nuanced preference towards world-level lexical simplifications using pop-ups. Our findings highlight the importance of the tool’s design on users’ reading experiences, and provide implications for the design and evaluation of ATS prototypes with target readers.
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