scholarly journals Accessibility and digital media: exploring economic and social opportunities for inclusive design

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natali Osadchin
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Web Design ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Assistive Technologies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Significant Progress ◽  
Mobility Barriers ◽  
Social Opportunities ◽  
Media Market

The following paper explores the digital media market from an accessibility point of view; what does digital accessibility look like today? What further efforts are needed to ensure digital media products and services are in compliance with universal design practices? The paper will be supplemented by both academic research, as well as ethnographic accounts of the author’s experiences whilst working on AccessNow, a web service aimed at lifting mobility barriers. Topics explored include the disenfranchisement of people with disabilities in consumerist society, the dichotomy of the medical and social models, as well as a brief overview of universal web design, accessible gaming, and existing assistive technologies. Findings show there has been significant progress towards the incorporation of accessibility design guidelines, however, the process is slow and adopted by few. There is a significant gap in the accessible digital media market, which may be an enticing opportunity for economic investment.

scholarly journals Accessibility and digital media: exploring economic and social opportunities for inclusive design

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natali Osadchin
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Web Design ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Assistive Technologies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Significant Progress ◽  
Mobility Barriers ◽  
Social Opportunities ◽  
Media Market

The following paper explores the digital media market from an accessibility point of view; what does digital accessibility look like today? What further efforts are needed to ensure digital media products and services are in compliance with universal design practices? The paper will be supplemented by both academic research, as well as ethnographic accounts of the author’s experiences whilst working on AccessNow, a web service aimed at lifting mobility barriers. Topics explored include the disenfranchisement of people with disabilities in consumerist society, the dichotomy of the medical and social models, as well as a brief overview of universal web design, accessible gaming, and existing assistive technologies. Findings show there has been significant progress towards the incorporation of accessibility design guidelines, however, the process is slow and adopted by few. There is a significant gap in the accessible digital media market, which may be an enticing opportunity for economic investment.

scholarly journals User-Centered Designs for Electronic Commerce Web Portals

2013 ◽  
pp. 59-70
Author(s):  
Robert Jeyakumar Nathan ◽  
Norazah Mohd Suki
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Web Design ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Web Portals ◽  
Target Groups ◽  
Online Transactions ◽  
Specific Target ◽  
User Centered

Websites connect businesses with customers. They are an important medium that facilitates online transactions, a necessity for businesses. The design and usability of an Electronic Commerce (EC) website play an important role in achieving its objectives (Kumar, Smith, & Bannerjee, 2004; Marcus, 2005; Nielsen, 2003; 2005; Krug, 2006; Cappel & Huang, 2007). Recognizing their importance, design and usability aspects of EC websites have been widely researched in both applied and academic research (Lecerof & Paterno, 1998; Lohse & Spiller, 1999; Nielsen, 2000; Cao, Zhang, & Seydel, 2005; Flavian & Guinaliu, 2006; Nathan, Yeow, & Murugesan, 2008; Nathan & Yeow, 2009; Robins & Holmes, 2008). This chapter discusses the recent work with web design and electronic commerce. The importance of usability and user-centered web designs are highlighted. Usability to specific target groups and industries, such as airlines, government, and services portals, are also discussed. Altogether, design guidelines are given for web industries, and recommendations are made for better usability in designing websites.

scholarly journals Edge Models with the CAD Software: Creating a New Context for Mathematics in Elementary School

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felicitas Pielsticker ◽  
Ingo Witzke ◽  
Amelie Vogler
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Computer Aided Design ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Fourth Graders ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Toulmin Model ◽  
Geometric Objects ◽  
Design Software ◽  
Aided Design

AbstractDigital media have become increasingly important in recent years and can offer new possibilities for mathematics education in elementary schools. From our point of view, geometry and geometric objects seem to be suitable for the use of computer-aided design software in mathematics classes. Based on the example of Tinkercad, the use of CAD software — a new and challenging context in elementary schools — is discussed within the approach of domains of subjective experience and the Toulmin model. An empirical study examined the influence of Tinkercad on fourth-graders’ development of a model of a geometric solid and related reasoning processes in mathematics classes.

Functional Requirements for Effective Decision Making in Humanrobot Teams: Lessons Learned from Operational Settings

2005 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 452-456
Author(s):  
James Tittle ◽  
William Elm ◽  
Scott Potter
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Reference Frames ◽  
Broad Class ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Urban Search And Rescue ◽  
Robot Teams

Many environments require humans and robots operating together to accomplish complex and dangerous tasks, but technology-centered designs often support robot navigation but not the mission goals of the organization using the robot. Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) is a particularly valuable domain to identify general functional requirements for effective HRI, and our purpose in this paper is to demonstrate how a CSE approach can lead to valuable design guidelines that more effectively support decision making within Human-Robot teams. Our analysis of HRI in USAR lead us to identify several important guidelines for supporting effective coordination for Human-Robot teams: including (i) enable individual problem holders to have direct control over point-of-view to facilitate active information seeking, and (ii) create common reference frames on shared imagery so different problem holders can remotely coordinate information and actions. Designs based on these guidelines will support a broad class of coordinated activities between team members.

scholarly journals STUDYING YOUTH ONLINE POLITICAL EXPRESSION: EMPIRICAL FINDINGS AND METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn Schofield Clark ◽  
Ioana Literat ◽  
Neta Kligler-Vilenchik ◽  
Ashley Lee ◽  
Ellen Middaugh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Young People ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Internet Research ◽  
Marginalized Youth ◽  
Plastic Pollution ◽  
Political Expression ◽  
Cross Platform

We are living through a highly politicized time, with deep divisions foregrounding the significance and importance of political expression and dialogue. Youth have been at the forefront of these important conversations, in both academic research and in the popular press. On the one hand, we are seeing a resurgence of activism and engagement among youth (Bond, Chenoweth & Pressman 2018; Deal 2019), who are using online platforms to express themselves politically in rich and creative ways (Graef 2016; Jenkins et al., 2016). On the other hand, deep concerns have emerged about “some of the darker sides of networked media engagement” (boyd, 2017, n.p.), including the spread of misinformation, increased polarization and politically motivated bullying among youth (Rogers, 2017). If we see youth as active agents in their own political socialization (Youniss, McLellan & Yates, 1997), the ways they actively express and negotiate their civic identities online (Jenkins et al., 2016) offer rich possibilities for understanding how we can best support them as civic actors. The research presented in this panel aims to move beyond a simplified depiction of youth as either idealized political role models (e.g. Greta Thunberg or the Parkland Youth) or, conversely, as apathetic and politically disengaged. In light of the conference theme exploring what it means to have a Life mediated by the internet, we place emergent and senior scholars studying youth and online political expression in dialogue with one another to discuss both findings and particular considerations brought up by internet research (franzke et al., 2020), and especially internet research involving youth (Livingstone & Third, 2017). By encouraging researchers and audience members to reflect on the epistemological, ethical, and practical aspects of their own research, we aim to identify new questions for further study as we seek to understand the evolution of youth and online political expression. The first presentation reviews findings from a cross-platform study utilizing a mixed methods approach to explore youth online political expression and cross-cutting political talk on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. These presenters discuss their findings in relation to the challenges and opportunities they encountered when identifying and analyzing youth-generated cross-platform data. The second presentation highlights findings from a social discourse analysis of Twitter and Reddit threads on youth-centric issues of immigration (DACA) and environmental issues (plastic pollution) to identify how the intersection of issue, platform and aims of discourse shape the characteristics of online civic discourse. This presenter discusses the challenges she encountered when creating both a codebook and coding scheme for data analysis. The third presentation considers the role of gender and intersectional identity in online humorous political expression through a case study of a U.S. Black Muslim teen’s TikTok posts. This presenter discusses the challenges of placing critical technocultural discourse analysis into dialogue with digital media literacy and youth participatory action research endeavors. The fourth presentation highlights findings emerging from a series of ethnographic interviews with young people in a comparative study exploring online youth political expression in democratic and non-democratic contexts. This presenter discusses challenges of qualitative research when working with young people, especially marginalized youth, who utilize hidden forms of expression to engage in politics. Finally, our respondent will invite audience members into the discussion by offering a reflection on the four presentations and asking session attendees to comment on their own research experiences and larger implications they see for the study of youth political expression online.

scholarly journals Educational Impact of Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (97) ◽  
pp. 233-240
Author(s):  
Marcelo de Souza Bispo ◽  
Eduardo Paes Barreto Davel
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Educational Impact ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Educational Vision ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common

Abstract To think about the impacts of academic research on education is to think dynamically: education affects the ways of doing research (from the point of view of formal education) and is affected by research results that are little predictable and perceived due to constant negotiations among social actors in their daily socializations in different contexts. Management education (formal, non-formal and informal) affects and is affected by conflicting views of the world, which are produced within the field of management itself and whose impact as “beneficial” is not just a matter oriented primarily by economic, instrumental and financial aspects, but also for a negotiated understanding of the world that moves towards the common good. All research must be concerned with its power to affect educational vision and practice, directly or indirectly. How can this concern become perennial and central to the practice of academic research?

Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Architecture in Cloud Data Management

2019 ◽  
pp. 889-902
Author(s):  
Mohammed A. AlZain ◽  
Alice S. Li ◽  
Ben Soh ◽  
Mehedi Masud
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Data Management ◽  
Service Provider ◽  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Byzantine Faults ◽  
Byzantine Fault ◽  
Cloud Data Management

One of the main challenges in cloud computing is to build a healthy and efficient storage for securely managing and preserving data. This means a cloud service provider needs to make sure that its clients' outsourced data are stored securely and, data queries and retrievals are executed correctly and privately. On the other hand, it may also mean businesses are willing to outsource their data to a third party only if they trust their data are not accessible and visible to the service provider and other non-authorized parties. However, one of the major obstacles faced here for ensuring data reliability and security is Byzantine faults. While Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) has received growing attention from the academic research community, the research done is generally from the distributed computing point of view, and hence finds little practical use in cloud computing. To that end, the focus of this paper is to discuss how these faults can be tolerated with the authors' proposed conceptualization of Byzantine data faults and fault-tolerant architecture in cloud data management.

Improving Usability of Website Design Using W3C Guidelines

2018 ◽  
pp. 8006-8014
Author(s):  
G. Sreedhar
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Software Engineering ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Optimization Techniques ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Website Design ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Web Engineering ◽  
The Web

Due to the unceasing growth of web sites and applications, developers and evaluators have interesting challenges not only from the development but also from the quality assurance point of view. The quality assurance was and is one of the challenging processes in software engineering as well as for the web engineering, as a new discipline. Although there exist many design guidelines, and metrics for the evaluation of web sites and applications, most of them lack a well-defined specification framework and even worse a strategy for consultation and reuse. The main theme of the research paper is to provide optimization techniques to improve the correctness of the website.

From Text to e-Text - Resisting Print

2011 ◽  
pp. 176-194
Author(s):  
Katy Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Web Design ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Message Design ◽  
Screen Design ◽  
Text Design ◽  
The Web

In Chapter 5, you were introduced to the idea of message design, a concept that integrates the research in text design and screen design. Many of the Web design guidelines developed through the last half of the 90s were heavily grounded in research done in print design and reflect this work.

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