1. Access symbols for use with video content and ICT devices e-Inclusion
The work of STF 286
A project funded by the European Union

2. This presentation Describes access services Explains need for symbols
Describes derivation of symbols
Describes tests chosen
Gives test examples
Details other modalities
Gives preliminary results
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3. The Team Wally Mellors - STF leader Richard Hodgkinson Clive Miller
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4. Access services To overcome social differences
By rendering content in alternative formats
To provide access to all
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5. Which services? Subtitling Audio description Signing Speech output
Spoken command
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6. Why symbols? No use without awareness
No awareness without understanding
No awareness without promotion
International - Symbols do not need language
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7. How to get a good symbol Check for existing symbols
Check for existing metaphors
Brainstorm new symbols
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8. Brainstorming!
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9. How to get a good symbol (Plan B)
Call in the professionals
Select the best
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10. Testing ISO 9186:2001 Test for Judged Comprehensibility
What percentage expected to understand meaning?
Where result inconclusive
Perform comprehension test
What do you think this symbol means?
Judge results
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11. Comprehension judging
1 – Correct understanding certain
2 – Correct understanding very probable
3 – Correct understanding probable
4 – Opposite of what intended
5 – Any other response
6 – Response is “Don’t know”
7 – No response given
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12. ETR 070 – Multiple Index Approach
1 – The hit rate
2 – The false alarm rate
3 – Missing values
4 – Subjective certainty
5 – Subjective suitability
6 – Pictogram preference
7 – Pictogram set preference
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13. Test used Testing to ISO 9186 Both Comprehensibility and Comprehension
Estimate MIA from comprehension results
1,2,3 (correct understanding) give hit rate
4 & 5 (opposite or other) taken as false alarm
6 & 7 (no response) taken as missing values
1,2,3 also give subjective certainty
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14. Comprehensibility Judgement
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15. Comprehension test
You may see this symbol in association with a telephone.
What do you think t
his symbol means?
Make louder
If you cannot guess the meaning, please answer "Don't know".
Do not worry if you give the same answer to more than one
symbol.
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16. Other modalities Tactile symbols Audible versions
Designed by National Centre for Tactile Diagrams (NCTD)
Symbols for
Speech output
Spoken command
Audio description
Audible versions
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17. Results so far 1500 accesses to website
Nearly 600 tests completed from 30 countries
Cultural analysis – Scandinavia, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Iberia, Mediterranean, UK & Ireland
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18. Problems Inability to control display Inability to control respondents
Biased age and education
More results needed from Scandinavia (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden)
and Central Europe (Austria, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Switzerland)
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19. Remember the website: http://www.accesssymbols.org
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