Paper accepted at CHI 2024: "Digital Comprehensibility Assessment of Simplified Texts among Persons with Intellectual Disabilities"

• We conducted a comprehensibility study of automatically and manually simplified German texts with persons with and without intellectual disabilities (e.g., Down syndrome).
• We measured reading comprehension using multiple-choice questions, perceived difficulty using ratings, and reading speed.
• The results show that people with and without intellectual disabilities do not perceive the texts equally, and that their reading beavior is different.
• Overall, the manually simplified texts were easier to understand than the automatically simplified texts.

The paper was accepted for a presentation at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) in Honolulu (Hawai’i, USA). I will attend the conference remotely.

Read the paper here.