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Benefit of an animated simulation device for learning the highway code for deaf candidates : behavioural and physiological evaluation
2021
In France, the law called “loi handicap”, adopted on February 11th 2005, aims to ensure that people with disabilities benefit from the same conditions of access as all French citizens. The driving licence, because of its contribution to mobility, represents one of the major levers of an individual's general accessibility. Its successful completion improves social and professional integration. However, according to a parliamentary report of 2005, the success rate of deaf candidates in the theoretical exam of the highway code, allowing access to the practical exam of the driving license, was lower than that of hearing people.This thesis focuses on one of the possible causes of these differenc…
L'intérêt de l'animation comme support au code de la route pour les candidats sourds
2018
Entretiens Jacques Cartier, LYON, FRANCE, 13-/11/2018 - 14/11/2018; This article focuses on the interest of using dynamic Highway Code learning materials, particularly for deaf people who present low temporal skills. Twenty-one deaf and 24 hearing candidates of Highway Code were involved in a decision-making task. Four types of driving situations (overtaking, insertion on roundabout, insertion on highway and crossing an intersection) from which participants have to decide to go or not to go were presented in two different formats (static vs animated) and in two level of difficulty (simple vs complex). Results showed better performance in animated than in static condition, especially in deaf…