Kathryn Locke
Biographic Data
| ID | 3855558 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn Locke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn |
| FAMILY NAME | Locke |
| SIGNATURE | LOCKE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Curtin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2735-4971 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A series of lively impressions: Quality Narration and the Rise of Audio Description
This article investigates the multiple values of audio description (AD) across an increasingly discerning, broad and multi-platform audience of video consumers. While other accessibility features, such as closed captions, are an established aspect of accessible video consumption, AD has more recently emerged as a socially and culturally significant feature for audiences, both with and without vision-based disabilities. This article offers a revie…
Auditory Learner: An Examination of Changing Learning Styles and Expectations in Higher Education
Introduction This study examines the ways in which students and staff in higher education use and engage in audio, both in everyday life and within the university setting. Specifically, we explore if the increasingly diverse student population utilise audio as part of a personalised approach to learning. Increasing student engagement in online delivery through a personalised approach to learning is a vital area of focus in contemporary pedagogy i…
Smartphones, Disability and the Australian Experience of the Covid-19 Pandemic for People who are Blind and with Low Vision
This paper offers insight into and analysis of the disparate and diverse experiences of Australians with disability, at the intersections of technology and geography during the COVID-19 pandemic.Drawing on interviews with the blind and low vision community we identify a significant cross-generational uptake of smartphones. Participants demonstrate a reflexive and creative use of these devices when faced with reduced accessibility, and the signifi…
Developing accessible technologies for a changing world: Understanding how people with vision impairment use smartphones
Over a six week period, 845 people with low vision or blindness responded to our survey regarding how they used their smartphone, contributing to the first ever large-scale research project on the importance of smartphones in the Australian blind community. The results were significant − 79% of people with vision impairment use smartphones. They are part of their everyday lives and used for a broad range of purposes. Furthermore, the broad adopti…
Access for everyone? Australia’s ‘streaming wars’ and consumers with disabilities
This article is concerned with the recent rise in popularity of video-on-demand services as a form of entertainment in Australia and its premise of offering freedom to watch whatever, whenever. The article investigates how the entry of video-on-demand services into the Australian television market has both enabled and disabled televisual content access, focusing on how people with disability access video-on-demand content and the hardware and sof…
Who is working on it? Captioning Australian catch-up television and subscription video on demand
Despite the rapid evolution in the way in which we watch television - through digitalisation and the introduction of video on demand (VOD) and catch-up services - the inaccessibility of television content remains an issue, specifically for people who are Deaf or hard of hearing. This article revisits the claim from 2014 that VOD providers were 'working on' providing closed captions. Building on Ellis' 2014 research, the accessibility of televisio…
Video on Demand for People with Disability: Traversing Terrestrial Borders
IntroductionWithin Australia, the approach taken to the ways in which disabled people access television is heavily influenced by legislation and activism from abroad. This is increasingly the case as television moves to online modes of distribution where physical and legislative boundaries are more fluid. While early investigations of the intersections between television and the concept of abroad focused on the impacts of representation and natio…
Video on Demand for People with Disability: Traversing Terrestrial Borders
IntroductionWithin Australia, the approach taken to the ways in which disabled people access television is heavily influenced by legislation and activism from abroad. This is increasingly the case as television moves to online modes of distribution where physical and legislative boundaries are more fluid. While early investigations of the intersections between television and the concept of abroad focused on the impacts of representation and natio…
Developing accessible technologies for a changing world: Understanding how people with vision impairment use smartphones
Over a six week period, 845 people with low vision or blindness responded to our survey regarding how they used their smartphone, contributing to the first ever large-scale research project on the importance of smartphones in the Australian blind community. The results were significant − 79% of people with vision impairment use smartphones. They are part of their everyday lives and used for a broad range of purposes. Furthermore, the broad adopti…
Who is working on it? Captioning Australian catch-up television and subscription video on demand
Despite the rapid evolution in the way in which we watch television - through digitalisation and the introduction of video on demand (VOD) and catch-up services - the inaccessibility of television content remains an issue, specifically for people who are Deaf or hard of hearing. This article revisits the claim from 2014 that VOD providers were 'working on' providing closed captions. Building on Ellis' 2014 research, the accessibility of televisio…
Video on Demand for People with Disability: Traversing Terrestrial Borders
IntroductionWithin Australia, the approach taken to the ways in which disabled people access television is heavily influenced by legislation and activism from abroad. This is increasingly the case as television moves to online modes of distribution where physical and legislative boundaries are more fluid. While early investigations of the intersections between television and the concept of abroad focused on the impacts of representation and natio…
Access for everyone? Australia’s ‘streaming wars’ and consumers with disabilities
This article is concerned with the recent rise in popularity of video-on-demand services as a form of entertainment in Australia and its premise of offering freedom to watch whatever, whenever. The article investigates how the entry of video-on-demand services into the Australian television market has both enabled and disabled televisual content access, focusing on how people with disability access video-on-demand content and the hardware and sof…
Who is working on it? Captioning Australian catch-up television and subscription video on demand
Despite the rapid evolution in the way in which we watch television - through digitalisation and the introduction of video on demand (VOD) and catch-up services - the inaccessibility of television content remains an issue, specifically for people who are Deaf or hard of hearing. This article revisits the claim from 2014 that VOD providers were 'working on' providing closed captions. Building on Ellis' 2014 research, the accessibility of televisio…
Smartphones, Disability and the Australian Experience of the Covid-19 Pandemic for People who are Blind and with Low Vision
This paper offers insight into and analysis of the disparate and diverse experiences of Australians with disability, at the intersections of technology and geography during the COVID-19 pandemic.Drawing on interviews with the blind and low vision community we identify a significant cross-generational uptake of smartphones. Participants demonstrate a reflexive and creative use of these devices when faced with reduced accessibility, and the signifi…
Developing accessible technologies for a changing world: Understanding how people with vision impairment use smartphones
Over a six week period, 845 people with low vision or blindness responded to our survey regarding how they used their smartphone, contributing to the first ever large-scale research project on the importance of smartphones in the Australian blind community. The results were significant − 79% of people with vision impairment use smartphones. They are part of their everyday lives and used for a broad range of purposes. Furthermore, the broad adopti…
Auditory Learner: An Examination of Changing Learning Styles and Expectations in Higher Education
Introduction This study examines the ways in which students and staff in higher education use and engage in audio, both in everyday life and within the university setting. Specifically, we explore if the increasingly diverse student population utilise audio as part of a personalised approach to learning. Increasing student engagement in online delivery through a personalised approach to learning is a vital area of focus in contemporary pedagogy i…
A series of lively impressions: Quality Narration and the Rise of Audio Description
This article investigates the multiple values of audio description (AD) across an increasingly discerning, broad and multi-platform audience of video consumers. While other accessibility features, such as closed captions, are an established aspect of accessible video consumption, AD has more recently emerged as a socially and culturally significant feature for audiences, both with and without vision-based disabilities. This article offers a revie…
Computer Science (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Multimedia (5 works) · Advertising (4 works) · Business (4 works) · Subtitles and Audiovisual Media (4 works) · World Wide Web (4 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (3 works) · Entertainment (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)