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Presentation 2018-03-09 14:35
Cognitive Characteristics of the hearing-impaired Web users -- Comparison of legible character size for the hearing and the hearing-impaired --
Miwako Odaka, Emi Shinohara, Takayuki Watanabe (TWCU) WIT2017-70
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) We have carried out an experiment to measure and compare the legibility of Web content, with various font sizes, for both the hearing and the hearing-impaired. Font sizes were varied between 8px and 41px, while line height was fixed as 1.5 and character space was fixed as 0.1em. We prepared book reading Web sites, which have almost 2500 to 300 Japanese characters. Subjects were asked to answer questions while reading these Web sites. We measured a percentage of correct answers, time to read content and time to answer questions, impression evaluation (SD evaluation), and a simple legibility question. As a result, the most legible font size was found to be 27px (visual angle 0.70°), which was larger than the browser default size (16px). The legibility score was almost same as the hearing and the hearing-impaired. The time to read content of the hearing-impaired subjects became quicker for the larger font sizes. The time to answer questions, while, became slower for smaller and larger font-sizes. These results may show the cognitive characteristics of the hearing-impaired which was pointed out by the previous research.
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(in English) Web / hearing impaired / character size / legibility / accessibility / font / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 117, no. 502, WIT2017-70, pp. 59-66, March 2018.
Paper # WIT2017-70 
Date of Issue 2018-03-02 (WIT) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Conference Information
Committee WIT IPSJ-AAC  
Conference Date 2018-03-09 - 2018-03-10 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) Tsukuba University of Technology 
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Registration To WIT 
Conference Code 2018-03-WIT-AAC 
Language Japanese 
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
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Title (in English) Cognitive Characteristics of the hearing-impaired Web users 
Sub Title (in English) Comparison of legible character size for the hearing and the hearing-impaired 
Keyword(1) Web  
Keyword(2) hearing impaired  
Keyword(3) character size  
Keyword(4) legibility  
Keyword(5) accessibility  
Keyword(6) font  
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1st Author's Name Miwako Odaka  
1st Author's Affiliation Tokyo Woman's Christian University (TWCU)
2nd Author's Name Emi Shinohara  
2nd Author's Affiliation Tokyo Woman's Christian University (TWCU)
3rd Author's Name Takayuki Watanabe  
3rd Author's Affiliation Tokyo Woman's Christian University (TWCU)
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Date Time 2018-03-09 14:35:00 
Presentation Time 20 minutes 
Registration for WIT 
Paper # WIT2017-70 
Volume (vol) vol.117 
Number (no) no.502 
Page pp.59-66 
#Pages 8 
Date of Issue 2018-03-02 (WIT) 

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