Non-visual access to graphical information on COVID-19

Holloway, Leona; Butler, Matthew; Reinders, Samuel; Marriott, Kim

doi:10.1145/3373625.3418015

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“…The example of making intervenors in Ontario, Canada, now fully recognized essential workers is a positive milestone in this process. Information access through public media (e.g., daily briefings on TV) was initially not accessible to those living with visual impairments and relied heavily on graphics and visual presentation (Holloway et al, 2020). Sign language interpreters and captions were added later on in many countries and across multiple languages.…”

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Living with deafblindness during COVID-19: An international webinar to facilitate global knowledge translation

Wittich

Nicholas

Damen

2021

British Journal of Visual Impairment

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Arguably, individuals living with deafblindness are among the hardest hit by the effects of the corona virus disease of 2019 (COVID- 19), given the importance of the sense of touch for their ability to interact with the world. To address this challenge, it is imperative to facilitate the implementation of evidence- and experience-based recommendations, and to improve knowledge translation on a global scale. Deafblind International organized a webinar to provide a platform where participants could exchange experiences and solutions to overcome the challenges created by the arrival of COVID-19, in order to facilitate information exchange among stakeholders in deafblindness during this pandemic. We present an overview of its content here and place the summarized themes in context with existing research literature. Abstract submission was open for 4 weeks in May 2020, resulting in 30 submissions from 13 countries across 5 continents. Of the 26 presenter teams, 9 (35%) had a co-presenter that was living with deafblindness themselves. The number of individual participants across all sessions ranged from 55 to 140 ( M = 98), with a total of 3709 session registrations overall, and the organizers estimate a total attendance of around 400 participants. Based on extensive field notes taken during the webinar, and repeated viewing of the recordings, qualitative description allowed the team to synthesize eight principal themes across the event: access to information, communication, service accessibility, adaptations to service delivery, online safety and security, physical distancing, mental health and research. The first Deafblind International webinar was able to fill an important gap by bringing together a variety of stakeholders in deafblindness across the globe. The event created a sense of group membership and peer support, brought the participants, researchers, the professionals as well as their service agencies closer together and generated a sense of hope and collaboration.

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Living with deafblindness during COVID-19: An international webinar to facilitate global knowledge translation

Wittich

Nicholas

Damen

2021

British Journal of Visual Impairment

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“…A challenge of communication during a crisis is that not all populations can be reached effectively and equally [83]. It is more challenging for special populations to assess information due to various constraints, such as cognitive, physical impairment or sensory impairment [32,49], language barriers, and lack of devices [83]. The effects of crisis communication through visualizations also depend on the demographics, literacy, numeracy, and personal traits of the audiences [7].…”

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Mapping the Landscape of COVID-19 Crisis Visualizations

Zhang

Padilla

Barua

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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In response to COVID-19, a vast number of visualizations have been created to communicate information to the public. Information exposure in a public health crisis can impact people's attitudes towards and responses to the crisis and risks, and ultimately the trajectory of a pandemic. As such, there is a need for work that documents, organizes, and investigates what COVID-19 visualizations have been presented to the public. We address this gap through an analysis of 668 COVID-19 visualizations. We present our findings through a conceptual framework derived from our analysis, that examines who, (uses) what data, (to communicate) what messages, in what form, under what circumstances in the context of COVID-19 crisis visualizations. We provide a set of factors to be considered within each component of the framework. We conclude with directions for future crisis visualization research. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Visualization.

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Listening to life: Sonification for enhancing discovery in biological research

Braun,

Tfirn,

Ford

2024

Biotech & Bioengineering

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Sonification, or the practice of generating sound from data, is a promising alternative or complement to data visualization for exploring research questions in the life sciences. Expressing or communicating data in the form of sound rather than graphs, tables, or renderings can provide a secondary information source for multitasking or remote monitoring purposes or make data accessible when visualizations cannot be used. While popular in astronomy, neuroscience, and geophysics as a technique for data exploration and communication, its potential in the biological and biotechnological sciences has not been fully explored. In this review, we introduce sonification as a concept, some examples of how sonification has been used to address areas of interest in biology, and the history of the technique. We then highlight a selection of biology‐related publications that involve sonifications of DNA datasets and protein datasets, sonifications for data collection and interpretation, and sonifications aimed to improve science communication and accessibility. Through this review, we aim to show how sonification has been used both as a discovery tool and a communication tool and to inspire more life‐science researchers to incorporate sonification into their own studies.

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Non-visual access to graphical information on COVID-19

Cited by 16 publications

References 4 publications

Living with deafblindness during COVID-19: An international webinar to facilitate global knowledge translation

Living with deafblindness during COVID-19: An international webinar to facilitate global knowledge translation

Mapping the Landscape of COVID-19 Crisis Visualizations

Listening to life: Sonification for enhancing discovery in biological research

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