Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
13 results found tagged classroom accessibility.
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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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Note-Taker: Enabling Students Who Are Legally Blind to Take Notes in Class
This full paper from Arizona State University presents the CUbiC Note-Taker in detail, including its motivation, design principles, and results from two extensive case studies totaling over 200 hours of in-class use. The paper opens with a compelling…
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Enabling the Legally Blind in Classroom Note-Taking
This paper demonstrates the CUbiC Note Taker, a portable assistive device developed at Arizona State University that enables students who are legally blind to independently take notes in classroom settings. The system addresses multiple limitations o…
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Multiple View Perspectives: Improving Inclusiveness and Video Compression in Mainstream Classroom Recordings
This paper presents Multiple View Perspectives (MVP), a system that captures and presents multiple focused video views of a classroom for deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students. DHH students in mainstream classrooms face a fundamental visual attenti…
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Multi-View Platform: An Accessible Live Classroom Viewing Approach for Low Vision Students
This paper presents a Multi-View Platform (MVP) that uses students' personal smartphones and tablets to provide low vision and deaf students with flexible, magnified views of classroom lecture visuals such as presentation slides and whiteboards. The …
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ClassInFocus: Enabling Improved Visual Attention Strategies for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
This paper presents ClassInFocus, a system designed to help deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students manage the demanding visual attention requirements of modern multi-modal classrooms. DHH students face a unique challenge: while hearing students can …
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A Readability Evaluation of Real-Time Crowd Captions in the Classroom
This paper evaluates the readability of real-time captions produced by three different approaches in a higher education classroom setting: professional CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) captionists, automatic speech recognition (ASR), …
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Accessibility Evaluation of Classroom Captions
This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of real-time captioning approaches for classroom lectures, comparing Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART), Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), and a novel collaborative captioning system call…
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Navigating the Cyborg Classroom: Telepresence Robots, Accessibility Challenges, and Inclusivity in the Classroom
This field study examines how telepresence robots—mobile robots with screens that allow remote users to move through physical spaces—facilitate or hinder accessibility and inclusivity in university classrooms. The researchers conducted participatory …
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Tracked Speech-To-Text Display: Enhancing Accessibility and Readability of Real-Time Speech-To-Text
This research addresses a subtle but significant barrier facing deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students in educational settings: visual dispersion. While hearing students can simultaneously watch lecture visuals (slides, demonstrations, whiteboard) a…