Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
18 results found tagged STEM education.
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Speaker-Aware Affective Captioning for Multi-Speaker STEM Talk in Inclusive Classrooms
Ubur and colleagues at Virginia Tech address a specific failure mode of live captioning in classroom and meeting settings: collapsing multi-speaker discourse into a single text stream that obscures who said what and how it was said. They argue this i…
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Embroidered Braille: Towards Accessible and Inclusive Educational Tools and Everyday Applications
This short CHI Extended Abstracts paper by Khorsandi and Nabil (Queen's University iStudio) stakes out digitally embroidered Braille as a design space for DIY making of accessible everyday artefacts, rather than as another institutional assistive-tec…
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Belonging in the Making: Investigating Inclusive Makerspace Design for Youth with Autism
Zhang, Sakowicz, Wingeart, and Hamidi investigate how makerspaces — the hands-on, technology-rich learning environments that have become common in libraries, schools, and community centres — can be designed to genuinely include youth with autism, rat…
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Participation of High School and Undergraduate Students who are Deaf in Research on American Sign Language Animation
This SIGACCESS newsletter article describes the educational-outreach component of a five-year NSF CAREER Award (#0746556) research project at the Linguistic and Assistive Technologies Laboratory (LATLab) at Queens College, CUNY. The scientific goal o…
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ABC and 3D: Opportunities and Obstacles to 3D Printing in Special Education Environments
This paper presents a formative study exploring how 3D printing can support special education across three diverse sites: a school for students with moderate to severe cognitive disabilities (Site A), a school for blind and visually impaired students…
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AVD-LV: An Accessible Player for Captioned STEM Videos
This demo paper presents AVD-LV (Accessible View Device interface for Low Vision), a Chrome browser extension that enhances YouTube lecture video accessibility for deaf and low vision (DLV) viewers. The core problem is that captioned videos require D…
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Talkabel: A Labeling Method for 3D Printed Models
This poster paper presents Talkabel, a low-cost labeling system that makes 3D printed models accessible to blind users by enabling them to access spoken labels through simple taps on tactile markers. Three-dimensional models are valuable educational …
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Nonvisual Access to an Interactive Electric Field Simulation: Work in Progress
This demonstration paper presents work-in-progress on making the PhET Project's Radiating Charge physics simulation accessible to blind users through audio representation. The PhET Project offers over 130 interactive science simulations downloaded mo…
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ASL CLeaR: STEM Education Tools for Deaf Students
This demonstration paper introduces ASL CLeaR (American Sign Language STEM Concept Learning Resource), a free online educational platform designed to address a critical gap in STEM education for deaf and hard of hearing students. The authors identify…
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Inclusion and Education: 3D Printing for Integrated Classrooms
This research addresses the severe employment gap facing adults with intellectual disabilities (ID)—over 60% unemployment versus roughly 25% for the general population—by exploring whether 3D printing skills can be taught in integrated postsecondary …