Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

The development of a lecture capture system based on a tool to support hearing impaired students

  • Conference paper
  • First Online:
Technological Developments in Education and Automation

Abstract

In this paper, we describe the development of a support tool based on voice recognition technology for deaf students in the lecture environment. The successful prototype is then extended in a pilot scheme to provide additional material for the entire student body. Based on the feedback from the pilot scheme a proposal for a framework to support student interaction with captured lecture content is developed. The work is placed in the context of other developments and issues in the fields of deaf studies and e-learning.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 169.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 219.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 219.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  1. The Disability Discrimination Act (c. 50) HMSO, 1995 ISBN 0 10 545095 2

    Google Scholar 

  2. The Special Educational Needs and Disability Act, HMSO 2001 ISBN 0 10 541001 2

    Google Scholar 

  3. M. Brennan, M. Grimes and E. Thoutenhoofd, “Deaf Students in Scottish Higher Education - A Report for the Scottish Funding Council 2005”, p11, Forest Books Ltd., 2007. ISBN – 0-94625-265-3

    Google Scholar 

  4. J. Fleming, J. Hay, “Learning strategies of Deaf and hearing impaired students in higher education; CELT Learning and Teaching Projects 2002/03” 2003 ISBN: 0954211626

    Google Scholar 

  5. (1996) A. Bremner, T. Housden, Issues in educational settings for deaf students and interpreters [online]. Retrieved March 24, 2002, from http://www.deakin.edu.au/extern/rdlu/deafstud.html.

  6. H. Lang, “Higher Education for Deaf Students: Research Priorities in the New Millennium” Journal of Deaf studies and Deaf Education, Vol 7 No 4 pp 267 – 280, Fall 2002 Online ISSN 1465-7325 - Print ISSN 1081-4159

    Google Scholar 

  7. L. Lawson, “Scottish Council on Deafness”, IEE Symposium Digest on Assistive Technology- Towards a better life, pp 40-42 , 2003

    Google Scholar 

  8. J. Mole, D. Peacock, Keynote speech. “Supporting Deaf Engineering Students – Issues and Opportunities for Learning and Teaching” Proceedings of the International Conference on Innovation, Good Practice and Research in Engineering Education. 2004 ISBN 0-9542116-5-0

    Google Scholar 

  9. (2006) J. Mole. SignsOnline: British Sign Language (BSL)/English glossaries for Science and Engineering Education. [online] http://www.artsigns.ac.uk Accessed 22/1/2006

  10. J. Napier and R. Barker Accessing University Education: Perceptions, Preferences, and Expectations for Interpreting by Deaf Students, Jnl. of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education ,Volume 9, Number 2 pp. 228-238 Spring 2004; 9: 228 – 238 Online ISSN 1465-7325 - Print ISSN 1081-4159

    Google Scholar 

  11. R. Locker, Lexical equivalence in transliterating for deaf students in the university classroom: Two perspectives. Issues in Applied Linguistics, Volume 1, number 2, pp 167–195. 1990 ISSN 1050-4273

    Google Scholar 

  12. L.K. Quinsland, G. Long, Teaching, interpreting and learning: Implications for mainstream hearing impaired students Paper presented at the 1989 Convention of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, March. 1989

    Google Scholar 

  13. CDS The Centre for Deaf Studies, at Bristol University, http://www.bris.ac.uk/deaf/library/deafstudies_info Accessed 4/2/02

  14. M. Marschark, P. Sapere, C Convertino & Seewagen R. Chapter 3 Educational Interpreting: Access and outcomes pp57 – 83 M. Marsharck, R. Peterson, E. Winston (Eds) Sign Language Interpreting and Interpreter Education: Directions for Research and Practice : Oxford University Press 2005 ISBN 9780195176940

    Google Scholar 

  15. I. Stewart, W. McKee, “ ‘Talkshow’ : an investigation into the support of hearing impaired students by the use of continuous speech recognition software”, Proceedings of the Widening Access: International Perspectives Conference. 2001 Annexe, ISSN 1-903661-14-5

    Google Scholar 

  16. (2001) Liberated Learning website [online] www.liberatedlearning.com accessed 11/4/2001

  17. K. Bain, S. Basson, M. Wald, “Speech Recognition in University Classrooms: Liberated Learning Project” , Proceedings of the fifth international ACM conference on Assistive technologies 2002 pp 192-196 ISBN:1-58113-464-9

    Google Scholar 

  18. I.K. Jordan. The view from the president’s office Darby, A and Taylor, G. (Eds) (2003) Deaf Identities. Coleford : Douglas McLean. ISBN: 9780946252534

    Google Scholar 

  19. A. Smith, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Written Statement in the House of Commons, House of Commons Hansard 18 March 2003

    Google Scholar 

  20. A.S.Drigas, D.Kouremenos, S. Kouremenos and J. Vrettaros An e-Learning System for the Deaf people Proceedings of the ITHET 6th Annual International Conference 0-7803-9141-1

    Google Scholar 

  21. B.S. Parton, Sign language recognition and translation: A Multidisciplined Approach From the Field of Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education Volume 11 no 1, pp94- 101 Winter 2006 Online ISSN 1465-7325 - Print ISSN 1081-4159

    Google Scholar 

  22. I. Stewart, M. Allan, D. Harrison “An investigation into voice recognition based assistive technology in higher education” Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on e-Learning 2005 pp 449-457 ISBN:1-905305-12-5

    Google Scholar 

  23. A. Park, T.J. Hazen, J.R. Glass, J.R. “Automatic Processing of Audio Lectures for Information Retrieval: Vocabulary Selection and Language Modelling”, 2005. (ICASSP 2005). Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Volume: 1, pp 497- 500 ISSN: 1520-6149 ISBN: 0-7803-8874-7

    Google Scholar 

  24. J. Glass, T. Hazen, L. Hetherington, C. Wang, "Analysis and processing of lecture audio data: Preliminary investigations", Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2004 Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Speech Indexing and Retrieval, pp. 9-12, Boston, Massachusetts, May, 2004.

    Google Scholar 

  25. M. Wald, “An exploration of the potential of Automatic Speech Recognition to assist and enable receptive communication in higher education”, ALT-J, Research in Learning Technology, Vol. 14, No. 1, March 2006, pp. 9–20 ISSN 0968-7769 (print)/ISSN 1741-1629 (online)

    Google Scholar 

  26. T. Mayes. “Flexible Delivery”, QAA enhancement theme. QAA 2006 pp5-13 ISBN1 84482 576 0

    Google Scholar 

  27. (2008) The ECHO360 website [online], http://www.apreso.com/ Accessed 12/4/2008

  28. (2008) The Sonic Foundry website [online] http://www.sonicfoundry.com/ Accessed 13/4/08

  29. A. McClure, Lecture Capture: A Fresh Look, University Business, Professional Media Group, April 2008, online at http://www.universitybusiness.com/

  30. M. L Barbier, A Piolat,. L1 and L2 cognitive effort of notetaking and writing. In L. Alla, & J. Dolz (Eds.). Proceedings at the SIG Writing conference 2004, Geneva, Switzerland.

    Google Scholar 

  31. M. Wald, "A Research Agenda for Transforming Pedagogy and Enhancing Inclusive Learning through Synchronised Multimedia Captioned Using Speech Recognition" in Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2007: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunication, 2007. pp. 4479-4485

    Google Scholar 

  32. Y. Rui, A. Gupta, J. Grudin, L. He, Automating lecture capture and broadcast: technology and videography, Journal of Multimedia Systems Volume 10, Number 1 / June, 2004, pp 3-15 Springer Berlin / Heidelberg ISSN 0942-4962 (Print) 1432-1882 (Online)

    Google Scholar 

  33. M. Dimitrova, C. Sadler, S. Hatzipanagos and A. Murphy, Addressing Learner Diversity by Promoting Flexibility in e-Learning Environments, Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2003) ISSN 1529-4188/03S.

    Google Scholar 

  34. D. Andone, J. Dron, L. Pemberton and C. Boyne, “The desires of digital students”, Proceedings of the 14th Association for Learning Technology International Conference pp189-200 ISBN 978-0-954587

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgment

The authors would like to thank the colleagues and students (both deaf and hearing) who helped to test the various versions of the project for their support, tolerance and feedback.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow, Scotland

    Iain Stewart, Malcolm Allan & David Harrison

Authors
  1. Iain Stewart
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Malcolm Allan
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. David Harrison
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Dept. Civil & Environmental Engineering, Polytechnic University, Jay Street 333, Brooklyn, 11201, U.S.A.

    Magued Iskander

  2. Dept. Civil & Environmental Engineering, Polytechnic University, Jay Street 333, Brooklyn, 11201, U.S.A.

    Vikram Kapila

  3. Old Dominion University, Monarch Way 4111, Norfolk, 23508, U.S.A.

    Mohammad A. Karim

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.

About this paper

Cite this paper

Stewart, I., Allan, M., Harrison, D. (2010). The development of a lecture capture system based on a tool to support hearing impaired students. In: Iskander, M., Kapila, V., Karim, M. (eds) Technological Developments in Education and Automation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3656-8_53

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation