Digital Life
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Area
Challenge aimed at students who want to develop their final degree or master's degree project.
– UX/UI design
– Audiovisual communication
– Psychology (perception, cognition, user behavior)
– Engineering or technological studies
– Hybrid profiles combining creativity and technology
Intro
This challenge stems from the need to improve television accessibility for people with hearing impairments.
Television continues to rely on sound to convey essential information: narrative rhythm, emotions, warnings, and guidance within the interface.
When this channel is unavailable, the experience loses depth and clarity.
Challenge
I propose a user experience design project that will apply all phases of design thinking to investigate what a truly immersive television experience could be like when the audio channel is unavailable.
The project will start with a review of current solutions on the market, such as subtitles, lip reading, sign language, visual signaling, and other approaches, with the aim of identifying what information is not currently being transmitted and what barriers affect comprehension and navigation in the absence of sound.
Based on this background, the project will seek to precisely define the problem and explore new forms of experience, incorporating visual, spatial, or tactile resources that are not limited to replacing audio, but rather expand immersion and provide new avenues for interpretation, orientation, and narrative tracking.
The ultimate goal is to generate an accessible and immersive design proposal that allows people without hearing to understand the content, anticipate changes, and navigate the interface independently, documenting design decisions and their applicability in a TV environment.
We will focus on an analysis of the television experience without sound and the limitations of current solutions. Benchmarking of platforms or services that work with experiences without audio or sensory accessibility. Interviews with users. Synthesis of findings to define design criteria. Exploration of visual or tactile solutions that convey sound information. Creation of conceptual flows or prototypes that demonstrate an accessible television experience without sound.
