Access to Non-Verbal Aspects of Group Conversations for Blind Persons

Description

Communication between multiple people talking to each other in person, like during face-to-face business meetings, does not only consist of the spoken language and therefore requires more than theauditory channel to fully participate. Blind people who take part in this kind of meetings rely on the other participants to explicitly speak out any important non-verbal cues, like deictic gestures, which has proven tobe especially challenging in heated discussions as people tend to fall back to their usual behavior of usingnon-verbal communication (NVC) to support their arguments.

Period	30 Aug 2019
Event title	AAATE 2019 - Global Challenges in Assistive Technology Research, Policy & Practice
Event type	Conference
Location	ItalyShow on map