Authors:
Kazuo Kamata
;
Takeaki Shionome
and
Hideo Yamamoto
Affiliation:
Utsunomiya University, Japan
Keyword(s):
Visual communication, Mobile videophones, Signed language, Quality of service.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Mobile Multimedia Applications
;
Mobile Software and Services
;
Telecommunications
;
Wireless Information Networks and Systems
Abstract:
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) provide various kinds of information and communication services. For some people, however, their capabilities affect the accessibility to these services and terminal equipment. It must be ensured that the information and communication services of the Information Society are designed to be accessible from all. In this report we show certain results of our on-going project on signed language communication services by mobile videophones. The mobile videophones have an interesting feature of portability, but have certain difficulties in signed language production and perception due to the small size of displays. In this report we show the experimental results for Japanese Signed Language perception by small sizes of pictures. From the present results and previous experimental results, we discuss possible information and communication services by a signed language using mobile videophones from the user’s point of view: How well a user can
perform his/her intended information activities under a particular use situation. This concept leads to another term, User-Based Quality of Service (UbQoS), which uses measure parameters of user’s attitude to the services at a particular situation, and includes human and social factors in addition to usual technological ones.
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