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Studies on deaf mobile application: need for functionalities and requirements
Shelena Soosay Nathan1, Azham Hussain2, Nor Laily Hashim3.
Deaf people are normally considered to be people
that do not need any mobile technology due to the inabilities of
hearing and talking. However, many deaf are using mobile phone
in their daily life for various purposes such as communication and
learning. Many studies have attempted to identify the need of deaf
people in mobile application and level of usage of the applications.
Requirement for deaf mobile applications need to be analysed to
ensure the disabilities need are instilled into the mobile
applications developed for them. Universal design is
understandable to comply every user needs, however specific
disability is argued by the authors to have different need and
requirements. These differences are among the reasons for these
applications being developed to target for a specific group of
people, however they are less usable and later abandoned. This
paper focuses on studying the requirements needed by the deaf for
mobile applications. Previous literature was conducted it can be
concluded that graphic, text, multimedia and sign language
interpreter are among mostly required features to be included in
their mobile application to ensure the applications are usable for
this community.
Affiliation:
- Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
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