Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• Human Diversity and the Choice of Interface: A Design Challenge

  Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Murray Turoff (1981) — Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Easier and More Productive Use of Computer Systems (CHI '81), Part II: Human Interface and the User Interface

  Hiltz and Turoff report findings from a multi-year National Science Foundation-funded field trial of the Electronic Information Exchange System (EIES), a pioneering computer-mediated communication platform built at the New Jersey Institute of Technol…

  • user interface
  • computer-mediated communication
  • adaptive interface
  • personalization
  • novice vs expert
  • user support
  • historical
  • interface design
  • human diversity

• Modeling Expertise in Assistive Navigation Interfaces for Blind People

  Eshed Ohn-Bar, João Guerreiro, Dragan Ahmetovic, Kris M. Kitani, Chieko Asakawa (2018) — Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI)

  This short IUI paper asks a question most assistive-navigation research leaves unasked: what happens as a blind user becomes an expert on a route? Existing smartphone guidance apps deliver the same instruction set on a user's tenth trip down a corrid…

  • blind navigation
  • indoor navigation
  • turn-by-turn navigation
  • visual impairment
  • blindness
  • assistive technology
  • personalization
  • adaptive interface
  • user modeling
  • machine learning
  • deep learning
  • recurrent neural network
  • LSTM
  • route learning
  • mobile accessibility
  • orientation and mobility

• Variability in Reactions to Instructional Guidance during Smartphone-Based Assisted Navigation of Blind Users

  Eshed Ohn-Bar, João Guerreiro, Kris Kitani, Chieko Asakawa (2018) — Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT)

  This paper takes a close, sensor-level look at something most indoor-navigation research glosses over: how differently individual blind users actually react to the same spoken instruction. The authors instrumented a smartphone-and-BLE-beacon turn-by-…

  • indoor navigation
  • turn-by-turn navigation
  • blindness
  • visual impairment
  • assistive technology
  • orientation and mobility
  • personalization
  • adaptive interface
  • motion analysis
  • reaction time
  • mobile accessibility
  • wayfinding
  • user variability
  • cane technique
  • Bluetooth Low Energy

• Dynamically Adapting GUIs to Diverse Input Devices

  Scott Carter, Amy Hurst, Jennifer Mankoff, Jack Li (2006) — Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '06)

  This paper presents an analysis framework and demonstration tool (Input Adapter Tool, IAT) for automatically modifying desktop application interfaces to accommodate alternative input devices. Most GUI applications assume keyboard and mouse input, cre…

  • adaptive interface
  • alternative input
  • switch access
  • input adaptation
  • GUI adaptation
  • motor impairment
  • accessibility toolkit
  • interaction techniques

• Automatically Generating Custom User Interfaces for Users with Physical Disabilities

  Krzysztof Z. Gajos, Jing Jing Long, Daniel S. Weld (2006) — Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '06)

  This paper presents SUPPLE, a system that automatically generates custom graphical user interfaces tailored to individual users' physical capabilities. Standard desktop GUIs are optimised for typical users interacting via keyboard, mouse, and standar…

  • adaptive interface
  • automatic UI generation
  • motor impairment
  • visual impairment
  • machine learning
  • personalisation
  • optimisation
  • physical disability

• Attention Analysis in Interactive Software for Children with Autism

  A. Ould Mohamed, V. Courboulay, K. Sehaba, M. Menard (2006) — Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '06)

  This paper presents the attention analysis component of the AutiSTIC project, a collaborative effort between computer scientists and the Child Psychiatry department of La Rochelle Hospital in France to develop interactive software that helps children…

  • autism
  • attention analysis
  • eye tracking
  • computer vision
  • children
  • adaptive interface
  • educational software
  • neurodevelopmental disability

• Indoor Wayfinding: Developing a Functional Interface for Individuals with Cognitive Impairments

  Alan L. Liu, Harlan Hile, Henry Kautz, Gaetano Borriello, Pat A. Brown, Mark Harniss, Kurt Johnson (2006) — Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '06)

  This paper from the University of Washington describes the design and user evaluation of an indoor wayfinding system for individuals with cognitive impairments, including traumatic brain injury, Down syndrome, pervasive developmental disorder, and ce…

  • cognitive impairment
  • wayfinding
  • indoor navigation
  • wizard of oz
  • multimodal interface
  • adaptive interface
  • traumatic brain injury
  • Down syndrome
  • cerebral palsy
  • assistive technology

• A Semantic Transcoding System to Adapt Web Services for Users with Disabilities

  Anita W. Huang, Neel Sundaresan (2000) — Proceedings of the Fourth International ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '00)

  This paper from IBM Almaden Research Center presents Aurora, a semantic transcoding system that adapts web-based services for users with disabilities by extracting the meaning of web content rather than simply reformatting its syntax. The key problem…

  • web accessibility
  • web transcoding
  • content adaptation
  • XML
  • semantic web
  • assistive technology
  • web navigation
  • adaptive interface

• A Tool for Creating Eye-Aware Applications that Adapt to Changes in User Behavior

  Greg Edwards (1998) — Proceedings of the Third International ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '98)

  This paper from Stanford University's Archimedes Project presents the Black Squirrel Eye Interpretation Engine, a development tool for creating eye-aware software applications that adapt in real-time to changes in a user's natural eye-movement behavi…

  • eye tracking
  • gaze interaction
  • eye-controlled interface
  • adaptive interface
  • ALS
  • motor disabilities
  • on-screen keyboard
  • Midas Touch problem
  • assistive technology

• Accessible Indoor Navigation

  Kyle Montague (2010) — Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)

  This doctoral consortium paper presents early-stage research on designing an accessible indoor navigation application for disabled users. Montague identifies a key gap: while outdoor navigation benefits from GPS, indoor wayfinding remains a significa…

  • indoor navigation
  • wayfinding
  • adaptive interface
  • mobile accessibility
  • assistive technology
  • user-centered design