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A 2024 randomized field experiment at a school for the deaf found that augmented reality captioning could improve learning performance.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“through a randomized field experiment at a school for the deaf. The results indicated that AR captioning could enhance learning performance”
Breaking Barriers: Enhancing Learning Outcomes for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students through Augmented Reality Captioning, Jiayuan Zhang et al., ICIS 2024 Proceedings, paper 2595, 2024, Abstract.
Open the original- What it measures
- The system overlaid real-time speech-to-text captions onto the students' view through AR smart glasses.
- What it does not show
- One school, a conference paper, and a result the authors qualify in the next sentence.