Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
28 results found tagged touchscreen.
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Relating Computer Tasks to Existing Knowledge to Improve Accessibility for Older Adults
This paper investigates whether a custom file management interface designed to resemble physical paper documents, folders, and sticky labels can improve computer accessibility for older adults. The authors identify a fundamental problem: people learn…
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Exploring Iconographic Interface in Emergency for Deaf
This demonstration paper presents a mobile phone application that enables deaf people to communicate with emergency medical services using an iconographic touchscreen interface rather than voice calls. In Portugal at the time of publication, deaf peo…
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Physical Accessibility of Touchscreen Smartphones
This paper examines touchscreen smartphone adoption and usability for people with dexterity impairments through interviews and hands-on observations with 16 participants (mean age 40) at a New York centre serving approximately 3,500 people with physi…
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The Feasibility of Eyes-Free Touchscreen Keyboard Typing
This poster paper proposes a novel approach to eyes-free touchscreen typing where users imagine a QWERTY keyboard somewhere on the device and tap out an entire sentence without seeing the keyboard and without receiving any intermediate feedback about…
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VBGhost: A Braille-Based Educational Smartphone Game for Children
This short paper presents VBGhost, an accessible educational smartphone game for blind and low vision children that reinforces Braille literacy through gameplay. The game is based on Ghost, a word-building game where players take turns adding letters…
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BraillePlay: Educational Smartphone Games for Blind Children
This paper presents BraillePlay, a suite of four educational smartphone games designed to teach Braille character encodings to blind children aged 5 and older. The games are built on VBraille, a method for displaying Braille characters on a touchscre…
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Motor-Impaired Touchscreen Interactions in the Wild
This paper examines how touchscreen interaction performance varies over time for people with motor impairments, moving beyond snapshot lab studies to a four-week in-the-wild evaluation. Nine participants with conditions including Parkinson's disease,…
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Accessibility in Context: Understanding the Truly Mobile Experience of Smartphone Users with Motor Impairments
This paper moves beyond lab-based studies to investigate how people with motor impairments actually use smartphones in their daily lives, particularly outside the home. The research combines two studies: an online survey of 16 smartphone users with m…
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Technology for Supporting Care Staff in Residential Homes
This paper addresses a neglected population in accessibility research: care staff who provide day-to-day support to residents in care homes, particularly those with dementia. While technology has been developed to support healthcare administrators, m…
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Effects of Aging on Small Target Selection with Touch Input
This study provides a detailed analysis of age-related touch selection errors on small touchscreen devices, extending prior work on mouse and pen interaction to finger touch input. Twenty older adults (ages 67-81, M=73.3) and sixteen younger adults (…