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Beyond Compliance: AI-Powered Multisensory Content Adaptation for Inclusive Media Experiences

Saturday, April 18 | 3:20 – 3:40 p.m. | N256

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PROBLEM STATEMENT

Current media accessibility solutions—subtitles, closed-captioning, and basic audio descriptions—provide fragmented, incomplete experiences that fail to capture storytelling essence. While addressing deaf and blind audiences, they ignore substantial populations with intellectual disabilities, ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, sensory processing disorders, and photosensitive epilepsy who face consumption barriers despite intact vision and hearing. UN disability statistics reveal these underserved audiences represent 15-20% of target demographics, including millions of young adults on OTT platforms—a significant untapped market opportunity largely ignored by traditional accessibility approaches.

NOVEL APPROACH

We introduce a comprehensive AI-driven framework that decomposes, analyzes, and reconstructs multimedia content through multisensory interpretation. Our system employs: (1) Advanced feature extraction using neural source separation (Demucs/Spleeter), computer vision, and video-scene parsing to create hierarchical content metadata; (2) Multi-LLM consensus frameworks evaluating plot comprehension, emotional impact, and character development across specialized language models to determine feature relevance; (3) Fourteen specialized transformation services including real-time braille generation, dialog simplification using RAG fine-tuning, animation generation for sensory processing disorders, music pitch reduction for auditory sensitivity, media summarization (120-minute films to 20-minute versions), and contextual engagement tools.

Real-world validation: For Shakespeare’s Macbeth, our system identified that “Birnam wood trees are moving” creates comprehension barriers for intellectual disabilities, while Lady Macbeth’s hand-washing scene poses triggers for GAD/OCD patients—insights inaccessible to conventional solutions.

IMPACT

This framework revolutionizes inclusive media by: preserving artistic integrity while enabling emotional fidelity for disabled audiences; generating scalable, economically viable adaptations across diverse disability profiles; expanding addressable markets and revenue streams; supporting corporate sustainability mandates; and implementing universal design principles that enhance content for all viewers. Moves industry beyond compliance checkbox to paradigm shift—transforming accessibility into competitive differentiator while advancing genuine inclusion.

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