| Abstract: | Our research investigates the impact that hearing has on the perception of multimedia, with and without captions, by discussing how hearing loss, captions and deafness type affect user quality of perception (QoP). QoP encompasses both the user s level of satisfaction and their ability to assimilate informational content of multimedia.Experimental results show that hearing has a significant effect on participants ability to assimilate information, independent of video type or use of captions. It is shown that captioned video does not necessarily provide deaf users with a greater level of information but changes user QoP, providing a greater level of video contextualisation. |
