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Real-time malaria detection in the Amazon rainforest via drone-collected eDNA and portable qPCR. [PDF]

open access: yesOne Health
Ip YCA   +20 more
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New approaches to accessibility and audio description in museum environments

2020
This chapter will concentrate on the question of accessibility to museums, to architecture and to famous landmarks, for potentially new blind and sight-impaired audiences. It will dwell on advances in the field of audio description (AD) tout court but also on accompanying accessibility features exploiting the sense of touch, smell and sound.
Taylor, Christopher, Perego, Elisa
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Extending the Uses of Museum Audio Description: Implications for Translation Training and English Language Acquisition

Textus, 2021
The paper outlines museum (or art) audio description (AD), an emergent AD subgenre with textual and linguistic specificities that are described. The focus of the paper however is on the didactic potentials of this form of audiovisual translation in an English L2 setting.
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Audio descriptive guides in art museums

Translation and Interpreting Studies, 2018
Abstract Audio description is increasingly used by museums to improve access to their collections by visually impaired visitors. However, research in this field is still very limited. This paper aims to report on a descriptive study of artwork audio description as a modality of intersemiotic translation from images into words.
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Museum audio description: the role of ADLAB PRO

2022
Academic research on audio description (AD) originally focussed mostly on areas where there were clear barriers to accessibility for people with sight loss (PSL), particularly the description of screen products. Later, as audio description research moved from focusing on (dynamic) screen and stage productions into (static) fields such as museums ...
Taylor C., Perego E.
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Accessible museum collections for the visually impaired

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct, 2016
This paper describes an affordable approach and prototype system that can enhance the accessibility of museum exhibits to visually impaired users. The approach supports the navigation in exhibition halls and the tactual exploration of exhibit replicas using touch-sensitive audio descriptions and touch gestures on a mobile device.
Giorgos Anagnostakis   +7 more
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