TransMedia Catalonia has a consolidated research line in media and digital accessibility. This research line approaches media and digital accessibility from various perspectives (psychological, communicative, linguistic, etc.) and in multiple languages and cultural environments. Audio description, audio subtitling, and subtitling our main interests, although new emerging access services and new approaches to traditional audiovisual transfer modes are also under development. The challenges posed by new platforms and environments, the possibilities opened by new media, and the implementation of various technologies to enhance access to multilingual and multimodal accessible content are at the center of our research activities, which encompass theoretical, descriptive, experimental and technological projects.
In the period 2026-2029, the focus will be on:
- human factors and user interaction in immersive media and virtual worlds,
- easy-to-understand language in multimodal environments,
- artificial intelligence (AI) and AI-driven accessibility services,
- blockchain technologies in accessibility services,
- sustainability and ethics in digital and media accessibility in relation to the European Green Deal and New European Bauhaus, and
- accessibility services in video games.
And this will be done using a wide range of user-centric experimental methodologies, from questionnaires, focus groups, interviews to co-design and participatory approaches.
Additionally, TransMedia Catalonia aims to
- Transfer research knowledge to society whilst raising awareness about accessibility,
- Transfer research knowledge into educational and cultural settings.
