Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
30 results found tagged museum accessibility.
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Access to Interpretation: How Formal Cues Ground Interpretive Alt Text for Paintings
This CHI 2026 Extended Abstract examines a gap between mainstream alt text conventions and the interpretive work that paintings are designed to evoke. The authors argue that dominant guidance for alt text foregrounds brevity, objectivity, and functio…
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Expanding Perspectives to Improve Access to Visual Archives through Multimodal Image Enrichment
This paper addresses a pervasive challenge in the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) sector: large-scale visual collections that have been digitised but remain undiscoverable because they lack descriptive metadata. The authors, from th…
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The Present and Future of Museum Accessibility for People with Visual Impairments
This short ASSETS '18 poster paper is the formative survey that motivated much of the later Miraikan and CaBot museum-accessibility work from the same research group. The authors conducted in-person semi-structured interviews with 19 people with visu…
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Enhancing Blind Visitor's Autonomy in a Science Museum Using an Autonomous Navigation Robot
Museums have historically struggled to offer blind visitors the same self-directed, exploratory experience that sighted visitors take for granted. Prior solutions — tactile tours, audio guides, or pre-fixed navigation routes — either require a human …
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Beyond Omakase: Designing Shared Control for Navigation Robots with Blind People
Kamikubo and colleagues investigate how autonomous navigation robots for blind users should balance robot autonomy against user control, arguing that current systems default to what they call 'omakase' — a Japanese term meaning 'I leave it to you' — …
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Field Trials of Autonomous Navigation Robot for Visually Impaired People
This paper reports field trials of AI Suitcase, an autonomous navigation robot shaped like a conventional carry-on suitcase and designed to guide blind and visually impaired (BVI) travellers safely through unfamiliar public spaces. The system traces …
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BentoMuseum: 3D and Layered Interactive Museum Map for Blind Visitors
BentoMuseum proposes a novel museum map format designed to help blind visitors access the multidimensional information of a complex, multi-floor museum before and during a visit. Unlike conventional tactile maps that depict a single floor layout and …
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Robot-Assisted Group Tours for Blind People
Hu and colleagues investigate how an assistive mobile robot can support blind people's participation in mixed-visual group tours, where blind and sighted visitors share the same guided experience. The motivation is that group activities are central t…
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WanderGuide: Indoor Map-less Robotic Guide for Exploration by Blind People
Kuribayashi and colleagues design WanderGuide, a suitcase-shaped robotic guide that supports blind people in recreational, open-ended exploration of indoor environments — wandering, browsing, window-shopping — rather than getting from A to B. The tea…
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How Does Delegation in Social Interaction Evolve Over Time? Navigation with a Robot for Blind People
Hata and colleagues run a three-week longitudinal study of how six blind participants delegate social navigation tasks to a guide robot in the Miraikan science museum. The paper pushes back against the default assumption that accessible navigation ro…