Accessible scenic arts and Virtual Reality: A pilot study with aged people about user preferences when reading subtitles in immersive environments

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Published: May 8, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2020.12.07
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virtual reality, media accessibility, aged, subtitles for Deaf/deaf and hard-of-hearing, Easy-to-read

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Estella Oncins
TransMedia Catalonia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Rocío Bernabé
University of Applied Languages, SDI München
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0711-8653
Mario Montagud
i2cat
Verónica Arnáiz Uzquiza
Universidad de Valladolid
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3703-6480

Abstract

The technological advancements in virtual reality and other forms of immersive content such as 360º video are triggering the concept of liveness in the scenic arts, and deserve in-depth consideration in audiovisual translation studies. The reception of subtitles in this new VR-based media needs to be studied. In the specific field of media accessibility, accessibility in immersive media much research needs to be done. This article explores the preferences of two subtitle options: Subtitles for the D/deaf and hard-of-hearing and Easy-to-Read in a 360º video of Roméo and Juliette the opera, played at the Gran Teatre del Liceu during the 2017/2018 season. A pilot study was prepared and conducted with the aim of determining which subtitling options are preferred by users aged between 50 and 79.

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Oncins, E., Bernabé, R., Montagud, M., & Arnáiz Uzquiza, V. (2020). Accessible scenic arts and Virtual Reality: A pilot study with aged people about user preferences when reading subtitles in immersive environments. MonTI. Monographs in Translation and Interpreting, (12), 214–241. https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2020.12.07
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No. 12 (2020): Translation and Media Accessibility: from Theory to Practice / Traducción y Accesibilidad en los medios de comunicación: de la teoría a la práctica
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Author Biographies

Estella Oncins, TransMedia Catalonia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Dr. Estella Oncins is a Senior Researcher at TransMedia Catalonia (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain). She holds a PhD in “Accessibility for the Scenic Arts” from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She has a large
experience in providing accessibility for live events as a freelance translator, subtitler, surtitler, respeaker for different Spanish televisions and conferences, and as an audiodescriber for Gran Teatre del Liceu. Her research areas are audiovisual translation, media accessibility and creative industry. She is currently involved in the EU H2020 HELIOS project, being part of the team leading a WP. She is also the Quality Manager and part of the team in charge of IO4 of the ERAMUS+ KA2 EU co-funded project Live Text Access, which 
aims to create certified learning materials for real-time intralingual subtitlers by respeaking and velotyping.

Rocío Bernabé, University of Applied Languages, SDI München

Rocío Bernabé Caro MA in Translation (UGR), MA in Accessible Documents, Technologies and Applications (UNIR) and PhD student in easy-to-understand media services at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She is also an external collaborator of the research group TransMedia Catalonia. She is Deputy Head of the Professional College of Translation and Interpreting of the SDI in Munich (Germany). She is the project leader of the EU co-funded project Live Text Access that aims to create certified learning materials for
real-time intralingual subtitlers by respeaking and velo-typing. She is project partner, accessibility manager and leader of the Intellectual Output 2 of the EU co-funded project EASIT, Easy Access for Social Inclusion Training. She is at the second year of her doctoral research in the field of easy-to-understand audiovisual modalities with a focus on subtitling.

Mario Montagud, i2cat

Dr. Mario Montagud is a Senior Researcher at i2CAT Foundation (Barcelona, Spain) and a Part-Time Professor at the University of Valencia (Spain). He holds a PhD in Telecommunications (Cum Laude Distinction) at the
Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV, Spain). His topics of interest include Computer Networks, Interactive and Immersive Media, Synchronization and QoE (Quality of Experience). He is (co-) author of over 70 scientific and
teaching publications and has contributed to standardization within the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). He is a member of the Editorial Board of international journals and has been a member of the Organization Committee
of the many international workshops and conferences. He is also lead editor of “MediaSync: Handbook on Multimedia Synchronization” (Springer, 2018) and Communication Ambassador of ACM SIGCHI (Special Interest Group in
Human-Computer Interaction). He is currently involved in three EU H2020 projects, being WP leader in two of them: VR-Together, ImAc and 5G-Picture.

Verónica Arnáiz Uzquiza, Universidad de Valladolid

Verónica Arnáiz Uzquiza BA in Translation and Interpreting from the University of Valladolid (UVA), Spain, and MA in Specialised Translation from the UVA and in Audiovisual Translation from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). She is cu- rrently employed as a lecturer in Translation, Subtitling and Subtitling for the Deaf and the Hard-of-Hearing (UVA). She has also collaborated with the Master in Professional and Institutional Translation
(UVA) and the European Master in Audiovisual Translation (UAB). She has published several articles and reviews in different journals and volumes, and has presented a number of papers at international conferences dealing with
Translation and Accessibility.

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