- Title
- End-user requirements of an assistive technology for profoundly deaf parents with infants
- Creator
- Mxhego, Zukile Bright
- Subject
- End-user computing
- Subject
- Assistive computer technology
- Subject
- Deaf parents
- Date Issued
- 2023-04
- Date
- 2023-04
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- Thesis
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/60707
- Identifier
- vital:66373
- Description
- As the number of deaf people in the world increases, the amount of parents who are deaf, is also growing. The world is increasingly relying on technology from which deaf parents can, and do, benefit significantly. Deaf parents are able to rely on available technology such as assistive technologies to overcome functional limitations. However, assistive technologies are often abandoned within a short period of time of being acquired. The abandonment of assistive technologies is believed to be due to a lack of proper elicitation of requirements. Therefore, the problem identified in this research is a lack of understanding of end-user requirements of an assistive technology for profoundly deaf parents with infants. A literature review together with logical argumentation was conducted and applied to identify and recommend a method suitable for eliciting end-user requirements for assistive technologies. Thereafter, an integrative literature review and thematic analysis was done to extract needs and challenges of profoundly deaf parents with infants, and group them according to themes that emerged. Finally, making use of the recommended method and the extracted needs and challenges of profoundly deaf parents with infants, twenty-eight end-user requirements of an assistive technology for profoundly deaf parents with infants were elicited. The twenty-eight elicited end-user requirements consist of eighteen end-user requirements that express functions of an assistive technology for profoundly deaf parents with infants, and ten end-user requirements that express an overall goal/objective to be attained by profoundly deaf parents with infants when the assistive technology is designed and developed. To evaluate the elicited end-user requirements, only the eighteen end-user requirements that express functions of an assistive technology for profoundly deaf parents with infants were considered. The evaluation was done by assessing both existing and emerging assistive technologies to understand the comprehensiveness of the eighteen elicited end-user requirements that express functions of an assistive technology for profoundly deaf parents with infants.
- Description
- Thesis (MIT) -- Faculty of Engineering, the Built Environment and Technology, School of Information and Communication Technology, 2023
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (xi, 113 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Engineering, the Built Environment and Technology
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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