Rochester is widely considered by many to be the most Deaf-friendly city in the nation, having the one of the largest Deaf populations per capita in the country. My thesis will aid in the development of a self-guided tour application that will feature locations of historical significance to Rochester’s Deaf community. I intend to do this in collaboration with the Rochester Voices project, with the help of Michelle Finn and Christine Ridarsky from the Rochester Public Library.
This application is to be modeled after a mobile application created for another city in upstate New York, titled Albany: Then & Now. This application features historical photographs of downtown Albany, pinning the exact locations where the photographs were taken on a map. This allows users to directly compare the present environment with images of the past as they visit each site.
Since Rochester is a much larger city, its mobile application will encompass multiple tours - I've been given the honor of gathering content for a tour dedicated to Rochester's Deaf history. I am in the process of identifying historically prominent sites, as well as gathering photographs and information. I also intend to obtain ASL-video translations of the informative text to insert in the application to ensure that it is as accessible as possible to the Deaf. Through the creation of this tour, I hope to demonstrate the city of Rochester's importance in American Deaf History.
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