The extensive use of mobile devices and tablets has resulted in an increasing need for the ubiquitous availability of different types of dictionaries online. The purpose of our study was to evaluate the user experience and usability of the online dictionary of the Slovenian sign language. Six Slovenian hearing non-signers were included in the study. While using the online dictionary, participants were asked to complete six tasks: searching for a letter, a word, written explanation of the word, thematic section and particular fairy tale, as well as completing the quiz. In addition, the participants evaluated the usability of the online dictionary with the System Usability Scale. The findings revealed that participants perceived the tasks “searching for the word” and “searching for the thematic section” to be the most difficult tasks and “completing the quiz” to be the easiest one. Regarding the time measured, the task “searching for the word” was the most time-consuming and the task “searching for the letter” was the least. This study provides insights into how Slovenian hearing users perceive using the online dictionary of the Slovenian sign language and could be the basis for future research with users of Slovenian sign language.
@inproceedings{kozuh:16019:sign-lang:lrec,
author = {Kozuh, Ines and Kosec, Primo{\v z} and Debevc, Matja{\v z}},
title = {Evaluating User Experience of the Online Dictionary of the {Slovenian} {Sign} {Language}},
pages = {129--132},
editor = {Efthimiou, Eleni and Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita and Hanke, Thomas and Hochgesang, Julie A. and Kristoffersen, Jette and Mesch, Johanna},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {LREC2016} 7th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpus Mining},
maintitle = {10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2016)},
publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
address = {Portoro{\v z}, Slovenia},
day = {28},
month = may,
year = {2016},
language = {english},
url = {https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/16019.pdf}
}