User experience on XD Theatre: Body gestures and postures of deaf and normal children

This study observes on the significant user experience focusing on body gestures and body postures towards XD Theatre between deaf and normal children. Less extensively studied field of bodily expression of emotion that models how people communicate emotion through body gestures and postures and how people make inferences about them. Two groups were involved in this study: an experimental group which included three deaf and three normal children. Their gestures and postures for both groups were video recorded. An interview using sign language was conducted on the deaf children after the movie in order to understand their feelings. The analysis was done through video observation at six different scenes on fear and surprise emotion. The findings discovered different gestures and postures between the groups. Also even though the deaf children are fascinated and immersed into the movie through other senses including eyes, nose and hands, they felt less fear and surprise watching the movie. In addition, based on the interview, due to their limitation of not be able to hear sound effect in the movie, at certain scene, they felt sudden shock on fear and surprise. Therefore, recommendation for the future on valuable features for them in the interface design in XD theatre should be considered to stable their emotion while watching it.