[Air-l] Deaf populations and Internet use

[richard-seyler.ling at telenor.com]

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. 

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> > 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

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