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OPEN is a point of contact for all your questions about media and cultural accessibility research: are you looking for research on a specific theme? Are you looking for a research partner? Are you looking for someone to carry out contract research?
OPEN supports the accessibility research of the TricS research group of the University of Antwerp. TricS has many years of experience in the field of research into audiovisual translation and media accessibility, through doctorates, European research projects, conferences and workshops. More information about the ongoing (doctoral) research projects in Media Accessibility can be found below or on the TricS website. TricS is also the organizer of several international conferences on media accessibility, such as the "Third international symposium on live subtitling with speech recognition" (2010), "Media for All" (2009) and "Unlimited!" (2016).
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Subtitling for accessible education
by Senne Van Hoecke University of Antwerp
Subtitles for access to education: Exploring the impact of intralingual and interlingual subtitling of L2 English university lectures on cognitive load and comprehension.
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Live subtitling in an educational context
by Amaury De Meulder, University of Antwerp
Live subtitling for access to education: a pilot study of university students' reception of intralingual live subtitles
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Cognitive research in audio description
by Bonnie Geerinck, University of Antwerp
CoReAD - Cognitive Research in AD - Towards a model determining cognitive load in audio described audio(-visual) products.
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The NT Ghent Tablet Project
towards accessible theatre performances
In collaboration with Panthea, NT Ghent and the Department of Applied Linguistics/Translators and Interpreters of the University of Antwerp, OPEN has worked on a project that pursues the idea of inclusive theatre.
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PhD project on machine translation and audio description
by Kim Steyaert, University of Antwerp
PhD project entitled: Towards a greater accessibility of audiovisual media: exploring machine translation for audio description from English into Dutch.
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An accessible audioguide for the exhibition "Museum to Scale"
In collaboration with researchers from UAntwerp, OPEN is conducting pilot studies on inclusive audio guides for museums, with specific attention for the blind and visually impaired.
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