Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
15 results found tagged mobility.
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Accuracy as Autonomy: How Reliable Information Enables Choice in Wheelchair-Accessible Taxi Services
Won and colleagues (Sungkyunkwan University and Michigan State) investigate how the accuracy of AI-predicted information in accessibility-oriented services affects users' psychological needs and technology acceptance, using Seoul's Wheelchair-Accessi…
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Towards Accessible Mobility Support: User-Centered Design of a Passive, Multi-Functional, Low-Cost Knee Exoskeleton
Lin et al. (Carnegie Mellon) propose a fully passive, unpowered knee exoskeleton that aims to sit in the gap between two unsatisfying options currently available to people with mobility impairments: static knee-ankle-foot orthoses (KAFOs), which are …
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Photonote evaluation: aiding students with disabilities in a lecture environment
Hughes and Robinson at the Cambridge Computer Laboratory present Photonote, a lecture-capture system designed specifically for students with disabilities, and a controlled user study comparing it to human note-takers. Where existing lecture-capture s…
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RouteCheckr: Personalized Multicriteria Routing for Mobility Impaired Pedestrians
This paper presents RouteCheckr, a client/server system for personalised pedestrian navigation that calculates routes optimised for multiple criteria relevant to mobility impaired users. The authors identify three key shortcomings of existing navigat…
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Leveraging Large Data Sets for User Requirements Analysis
This paper demonstrates a novel methodology for using large-scale demographic surveys to inform the design of accessible technology. Rather than conducting specialized usability studies with small samples, the authors repurpose the English Longitudin…
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Exploration and Avoidance of Surrounding Obstacles for the Visually Impaired
This paper presents the 3DOD (3D Obstacle Detector), a wearable system that combines a 3D Time-of-Flight (TOF) camera with a portable multi-line refreshable Braille display to help blind pedestrians detect and avoid obstacles beyond the reach of a wh…
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The Blind Driver Challenge: Steering Using Haptic Cues
This paper presents a haptic steering interface that enables blind individuals to steer a vehicle on a track using vibrotactile cues, addressing the National Federation of the Blind's 2004 "Blind Driver Challenge." While self-driving vehicles could t…
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Exploring the Needs, Preferences, and Concerns of Persons with Visual Impairments Regarding Autonomous Vehicles
This paper presents two complementary studies exploring the needs, preferences, and concerns of people with visual impairments regarding autonomous vehicles—a technology that could fundamentally transform mobility for those who cannot drive conventio…
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Fully Autonomous Vehicles for People with Visual Impairment: Policy, Accessibility, and Future Directions
This policy analysis examines how fully autonomous vehicles (FAVs) could transform mobility for people who are blind or visually impaired (BVI), while arguing that current US legislation fails to address their accessibility needs. With over 25 millio…
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Beyond the Cane: Describing Urban Scenes to Blind People for Mobility Tasks
This research investigates what environmental information is most useful for blind pedestrians navigating urban spaces, moving beyond obstacle-avoidance to understand comprehensive scene description needs. The authors conducted two experiments with 1…