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Suhyun Kim has a special place in her heart for deaf people as well as the hearing impaired, and hopes that they will be able to find technology as enjoyable as we do.
Her concept of the Visual Sound cellphone is pretty plausible as current technology would enable such a device, but we're still not too sure on its accuracy since the Visual Sound will convert voice input to text and vice versa. A couple of pillars that scroll sideways can expose the roll-out display, making it easy to stash away when you're done.
In order to communicate, all you need to do is feed text onto the touchscreen display and it will be converted to voice simulation for the person on the other end of the line, and vice versa. Guess communicating this way is the last resort, as holding a video call via 3G using American Sign Language (ASL) might be the more efficient method.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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