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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought several challenges to students with hearing loss in Higher Education. Accordingly, assistive, mobile and other contemporary accessible technologies have become more important than ever before. This study provides an overview of the needs and requirements of students with hearing loss in Higher Education. The findings, firstly, include a list of assistive technologies for the purpose of communicating, listening to speech and audio devices, sound recognition, informing, sensing, alerting and learning. Secondly, the findings provide a list of mobile technologies for the purpose of communicating, managing sound, sensing, alerting, learning sign language, learning in general and leisure activities. Thirdly, the findings encompass new dimensions of contemporary technologies, having the potential to support students with hearing loss in challenging educational settings. These findings may primarily serve students with hearing loss, practitioners in Higher Education and other relevant stakeholders.
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We would like to thank the students attending the course Human-Computer Interaction in the study years 2020/21 and 2021/22, who contributed to the content of the paper by their research. The study was funded by the European Commission, in the framework of the research project Smart Solutions for the Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in Higher Education, Grant number Ref. 2020-1-LV01-KA203-077455.
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Kožuh, I., Čakš, P., Debevc, M. (2022). Contemporary Assistive Technologies for Students with Hearing Loss in Higher Education. In: Miesenberger, K., Kouroupetroglou, G., Mavrou, K., Manduchi, R., Covarrubias Rodriguez, M., Penáz, P. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP-AAATE 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13341. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08648-9_60
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