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Twenty-First Century Captioning Technology, Metrics and Usability

Award Number: 90DPCP0002
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DISABILITY, INDEPENDENT LIVING, AND REHABILITATION RESEARCH
OPDIV: ACL
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: OTHER
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/30/2018
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 09/29/2025

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Twenty-First Century Captioning Technology, Metrics and Usability - Access to video, whether broadcast or streaming, is key to community living of the 36 million Americans who are deaf or hard of hearing. Access to video has a direct impact on societal participation, including entertainment, keeping up with news, political processes, contact with institutions and elected representatives, education, and acquiring new skills. The advent of modern technology (e.g. digital devices and ASR) can potentially greatly improve the current unsatisfactory state of caption quality and caption display on screens. The goal of this five-year partnership of Gallaudet University, the Rochester Institute of Technology, and Apptek, in consultation with consumer and industry stakeholders, is to devise a modern evidence-based approach toward meeting the caption quality and caption user interface/user experience needs of viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing. The primary objectives are (1) to develop caption quality metrics that are widely accepted, practical, technology neutral, and maximize access to video by people who are deaf or hard of hearing, and (2) to investigate what factors in the presentation/display of captions on the screen optimize the usability and the experience of deaf and hard of hearing viewers. Anticipated outcomes are (1) changes to caption quality policies, (2) changes to caption user interface guidelines, and (3) the adoption of clear objectives that both human and ASR-based captioning processes need to meet. Expected products include programs, technologies and guidelines for assessing captions, a video library for evaluating captioning methods, evidence-based reports that link caption quality metrics with subjective and objective viewer metrics, and evidence-based reports that describe the impact of caption display/presentation on the viewers.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2025	2022	GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY	800 FLORIDA AVE NE	WASHINGTON	DC	20002	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	02	5	10/8/2024	EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS	$0
2025	2021	GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY	800 FLORIDA AVE NE	WASHINGTON	DC	20002	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	02	5	10/8/2024	EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2023	2022	GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY	800 FLORIDA AVE NE	WASHINGTON	DC	20002	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	01	5	9/15/2023	OTHER REVISION	$0
2023	2021	GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY	800 FLORIDA AVE NE	WASHINGTON	DC	20002	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	01	5	9/15/2023	OTHER REVISION	$0
2023	2020	GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY	800 FLORIDA AVE NE	WASHINGTON	DC	20002	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	01	5	9/15/2023	OTHER REVISION	$0
2023	2019	GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY	800 FLORIDA AVE NE	WASHINGTON	DC	20002	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	01	5	9/15/2023	OTHER REVISION	$0
2023	2018	GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY	800 FLORIDA AVE NE	WASHINGTON	DC	20002	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	01	5	9/15/2023	OTHER REVISION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $475,000 )
2022	2022	Gallaudet University	800 Florida Avenue, Ne	Washington	DC	20002	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	5	8/9/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$475,000
2022	2021	Gallaudet University	800 Florida Avenue, Ne	Washington	DC	20002	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	5	8/9/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2022	2020	Gallaudet University	800 Florida Avenue, Ne	Washington	DC	20002	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	5	8/9/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2022	2019	Gallaudet University	800 Florida Avenue, Ne	Washington	DC	20002	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	5	8/9/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2022	2018	Gallaudet University	800 Florida Avenue, Ne	Washington	DC	20002	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	5	8/9/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $475,000

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = $474,999 )
2021	2021	Gallaudet University	800 Florida Avenue, Ne	Washington	DC	20002	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	4	8/4/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$474,999
2021	2020	GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY	800 FLORIDA AVE NE	WASHINGTON	DC	20002	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	01	3	11/12/2020	OTHER REVISION	$0
2021	2020	Gallaudet University	800 Florida Avenue, Ne	Washington	DC	20002	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	4	8/4/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2021	2020	Gallaudet University	800 Florida Avenue, Ne	Washington	DC	20002	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	02	3	3/25/2021	OTHER REVISION	$0
2021	2019	Gallaudet University	800 Florida Avenue, Ne	Washington	DC	20002	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	02	3	3/25/2021	OTHER REVISION	$0
2021	2019	Gallaudet University	800 Florida Avenue, Ne	Washington	DC	20002	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	4	8/4/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2021	2018	Gallaudet University	800 Florida Avenue, Ne	Washington	DC	20002	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	4	8/4/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2021	2018	GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY	800 FLORIDA AVE NE	WASHINGTON	DC	20002	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	01	3	11/12/2020	OTHER REVISION	$0
2021	2018	Gallaudet University	800 Florida Avenue, Ne	Washington	DC	20002	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	02	3	3/25/2021	OTHER REVISION	$0
														Subtotal = $474,999

Issue Date FY: 2020 ( Subtotal = $475,000 )
2020	2020	GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY	800 FLORIDA AVE NE	WASHINGTON	DC	20002	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	3	9/9/2020	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$475,000
2020	2018	GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY	800 FLORIDA AVE NE	WASHINGTON	DC	20002	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	3	9/9/2020	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2020	2018	GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY	800 FLORIDA AVE NE	WASHINGTON	DC	20002	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	01	2	5/8/2020	OTHER REVISION	$0
														Subtotal = $475,000

Issue Date FY: 2019 ( Subtotal = $475,000 )
2019	2019	GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY	800 Florida Ave Ne	Washington	DC	20002	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	2	9/10/2019	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$475,000
														Subtotal = $475,000

Issue Date FY: 2018 ( Subtotal = $475,000 )
2018	2018	GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY	800 FLORIDA AVE NE	WASHINGTON	DC	20002	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	1	8/8/2018	NEW	$475,000
														Subtotal = $475,000

Grand Total All Awards = $2,374,999

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Twenty-First Century Captioning Technology, Metrics and Usability

Award Number: 90DPCP0002

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DISABILITY, INDEPENDENT LIVING, AND REHABILITATION RESEARCH

OPDIV: ACL

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: OTHER

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/30/2018

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 09/29/2025

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