Video and Deaf+Hearing Community
Naomi Black & Nathan Kester
with Ben Rubin, NTID and Willie King, ZVRS
Welcome!
„Who we are
„Why communication accessibility?
„Google+
„Hangouts
„Video and Community (with RIT/NTID)
oDHHVAC project
oSpringboard project
„Building on the Hangouts API
„Using Google Services to Communicate
oGoogle+ Pages
oHangouts and Live Hangouts
oGoogle Apps Video
Who we are
Naomi leads a team of engineers at Google. She works on improving the accessibility of Google products and services.

Nathan works as a webmaster at Google, responsible for many pages on google.com and google.org.  He works primarily with Google AdWords and Google Apps.
„www.google.com/doodles
„www.google.com/ads
„www.google.com/a
„www.google.org, http://www.google.com/accessibility/


Why communication accessibility?
"To organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."

„Most of the world's population does not speak my language.
„Hearing people and Deaf want to communicate
„Diversity at work leads to better ideas
„Hearing people can learn from deaf people about video communication




Google Insights
„Google is busy trying to integrate services together better
„If you upload video clips to YouTube, it is instantly viewable to millions of users around the world.
„Moore's law: as technology advances exponentially, we are becoming more connected too.
„Your mobile phone is your compass, your communicator in the world.


Google+
It's an upgrade to Google -- 
„One seamless social experience across all of our products

It's a social destination -- 
„A place to share and build 
community
Google+ Hangouts: Video Communication
Sign Language Hangouts:
„Shift+S
„Pinning a view
„The "brady bunch" view

Deaf-and-Hearing Communication
„Adding a phone call to a Hangout
„CART (Hangout Captions)
„VRI (early demo)
Demo: Hangout with Ben
Demo: Adding CART to a Hangout
Deaf STEM Community Alliance Project at RIT/NTID
„The project is supported by the National Science Foundation (Award HRD #1127955) 
„The Deaf STEM Community Alliance brings together students, faculty and staff from: 
oRochester Institute of Technology/National Technical Institute for the Deaf (RIT/NTID) in Rochester NY
oCamden County College in Blackwood NJ
oCornell University in Ithaca NY
„http://www.dhhvac.org
Deaf STEM Community Alliance Project at RIT/NTID
„Goals: 
oIncrease GPAs and retention rates of D/HH students in STEM majors.
oCreate a scalable online model that other schools can use.
Virtual Academic Community (VAC) prototype for D/HH students to succeed in STEM fields of study through a web-based cyberinfrastructure
„Web-conferencing tools provide students with remote support services (tutoring and mentoring) and remote access services (interpreting and captioning)
„Began using Google+ Hangouts in early trials
Deaf STEM Community Alliance Project at RIT/NTID
„Why RIT/NTID Chose Google+ and Hangouts?
oAll RIT students already were using and familiar with the University Gmail system.  Easy to learn.
oGoogle+ available both outside of class and after students graduate.
oOnline materials and tutorials from Google have captions
oCustom support options for the deaf community (shift+S)
oStudents are often online on their own time, which makes Google+ an easy way for the virtual academic community manager to get ahold of or update many of the students.
Remote Tutoring with the VAC
Deaf STEM Community Alliance Project at RIT/NTID
For most of the students and almost all of the tutors, this was the first time they used Google Applications together in a unified way. 
 
„Virtual Academic Community Manager created 1-2 hour orientation sessions for tutor-student teams in the beginning where they met in person.
 
„Helped students become familiar with Gmail, Google+, Hangouts, Google Docs, and Google Calendar.  
„'While tutors were working with students on their coursework, Many students, as digital natives, helped tutors become fully acclimated to Google Applications.
Deaf STEM Community Alliance Project at RIT/NTID
Some of the students began using Google Apps with peers to support each other academically as well as personally.  

What began as a biweekly conversation about school projects and interests expanded over the summer.

Springboard Hangouts 
„4 students in very different parts of the country
„connecting online
„sharing their work experiences

Springboard Hangouts
Live Demos...
Demo: Adding a Voice Call to a Hangout
Building on the Hangouts API (Guest Demo!)
Q&A
How to find us:
„http://gplus.to/naomib
„Or email naomib@google.com (captioning@google.com)

Projects mentioned here:
„Hangout Captions
„Deaf STEM Community Alliance (http://www.dhhvac.org)
„http://www.youtube.com/nonprofits

And http://www.google.com/accessibility