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(Re)Imagining the museum: Communicative and social features of verbal description in art museums
Disability Studies Quarterly, 2022 Verbal description plays a crucial role in improving access to modern-day art museums. This article presents the results of a study of verbal description in art museums in France, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. These results
Silvia Soler Gallego
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Museum audio description: the problem of textual fidelity [PDF]
Perspectives, 2018 Museums present a myriad of source texts, which are often highly ambiguous. Yet Museum Audio Description (AD) is sited in an AD tradition which advocates objectivity. In screen AD, researchers have examined multiple aspects of the translation decisions facing the describer-translator, considering the ways in which AD is shaped by the demands of the ...
Hutchinson, R., Eardley, A.F.
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Traducción accesible en el espacio museográfico multimodal: las guías audiodescriptivas
JoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation, 2013 Audio description is an intersemiotic translation modality (Jakobson 1959/2000) that allows visually impaired people to access visual messages in different contexts, including audiovisual media, performing arts, museums and exhibitions (Snyder (ed.) 2010:
Universidad de Córdoba Silvia Soler Gallego
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Museum Audio Descriptions vs. General Audio Guides
Journal of Audiovisual Translation, 2023 The question of objectivity vs. subjectivity in audio description (AD) is still open and unresolved, even more so when considering less researched AD sub-genres, such as museum ADs. While sparse guidelines for describing artworks and cultural artefacts tend to favour neutrality, no clear consensus exists, and the limits of a factual style have already ...
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Evaluating audio description and emotional engagement for BPS visitors in a museum context
Translation Spaces, 2022 Abstract Museums face a particular challenge in enabling blind and partially sighted (BPS) visitors to engage emotionally with the narrative(s) they present. In collaboration with a world-leading tourist attraction (Titanic Belfast) and the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), we have applied several different approaches for improving ...
Xi Wang +3 more
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Metaphor as Creativity in Audio Descriptive Tours for Art Museums
Journal of Audiovisual Translation, 2020 In a previous corpus-based descriptive study, we concluded that a linguistic metaphor is a frequently used technique in audio description (AD) for art museums and proposed a set of categories to describe this resource. These results led us to compose increasingly creative and subjective ADs for a series of audio descriptive guided tours of art ...
María Olalla Luque Colmenero +1 more
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Audio Description as a Pedagogical Tool
Disability Studies Quarterly, 2015 Audio description is the process of translating visual information into words for people who are blind or have low vision. Typically such description has focused on films, museum exhibitions, images and video on the internet, and live theater. Because it
Georgina Kleege, Scott Wallin
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New Trends outside the Translation Classroom
Multidisciplinary Journal for Education, Social and Technological Sciences, 2014 This paper is based on the study of different elements at the University of Granada’s Faculty of Translation and Interpreting and seeks to elaborate a prototype for a multilingual and accessible audio guide (audio description, SDHH and Spanish sign ...
Silvia Martínez Martínez +1 more
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Some usage peculiarities of terminological units in audio descriptions of static objects [PDF]
Актуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистикиThe article discusses some usage features of terminological units in the audio description of two- and three-dimensional static objects in the modern Russian language. The relevance of the research is due to the use of Russian-language audio descriptions
Razduyev A.V. , Alimuradov O.A.
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The Building That Teaches: Exploring Augmented Reality Affordances in Academic Incubators
Journal of Interior Design, EarlyView., 2022 ABSTRACT Efforts to enhance the experience of interior environments have led to experimentation with augmented reality (AR) technology to encourage users to participate in the built space using their mobile devices. To investigate the role of AR technologies in interior design experiences, we highlight the interdisciplinary design of a mobile AR ...
Leah Scolere, Laura Malinin
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