Eye movements of hearing impaired students in self-practice to learn how to use graphic software

Abstract

This study investigates where hearing impaired students see when they try to learn how to use graphical drawing software with subtitled educational video material in case of self-practice situation. An experiment was conducted to ten students with hearing impaired using eye tracking system. The data from the system showed that students who needs more time to learn it had tendency to consume long time to read explaining subtitles in the video material and it causes to miss out to see important operation.