A while back I had a student who wrote her masters thesis on the use of SMS among the hearing impaired in Norway. She will have a paper in the book on texting that Rich Harper, Alex Taylor and Leysia Palen are putting together and should be out sometime soon. The actual thesis is in Norwegian but the article will be in English. She found that their freedom of movement was expanded in that they did not have to rely on place specific technologies or access to people who could eventually translate their needs into spoken language. An interesting twist, however, was that SMS made their social lives more transparent in the relatively small world of deaf persons in Oslo. Thus there were new demands on managing social interaction. Rich L. -----Original Message----- From: air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Helland Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 5:02 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] Deaf populations and Internet use
I'm looking for research about deaf/Deaf populations and ininternetse.
This might be more inintranethan ininternetut in "Extreme MaMakoverome Edition" they redid a house for a couple that was deaf and had an autistic child--very good episode. They wired the house with computers and monitors so that they could sign to each other from different rooms. It was the VaVardenamily Season 2 Episode 7 hthttp/ababco.com/prprimetimetxtremehomeibiosamilies/the_vavardonamily.hthtml ===== PLEASE DONATE TO THE RED CROSS TO HELP VICTIMS OF THE TSUNAMI http://www.redcross.ca Christopher Helland, Ph.D. SSHRC Research Fellow Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies Saint Mary's University Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada B3H 3C3 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~chelland/index.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page - Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ The Air-l-aoir.org@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://aoir.org/airjoin.html