Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
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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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Distinguishing Users By Pointing Performance in Laboratory and Real-World Tasks
This paper investigates how machine learning can automatically assess pointing difficulties from everyday computer use, addressing a critical barrier to accessible computing: the lack of frequent, low-cost assessment of pointing ability. The research…
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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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Automatic Task Assistance for People with Cognitive Disabilities in Brushing Teeth - A User Study with the TEBRA System
This paper presents TEBRA (TEeth BRushing Assistance), an Assistive Technology for Cognition (ATC) system that supports people with moderate cognitive disabilities in brushing their teeth independently. The research addresses a fundamental challenge:…
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Haptic 3D Surface Representation of Table-Based Data for People With Visual Impairments
This paper introduces "relief charts"—3D surface representations of standard data visualizations (bar graphs, pie charts, scatter plots, radar charts) designed to make complex tabular data accessible to people with visual impairments. The approach is…
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Accessing Peer Social Interaction: Using Authorable Virtual Peer Technology as a Component of a Group Social Skills Intervention Program
This paper evaluates the Authorable Virtual Peer (AVP), a life-sized animated character technology designed to support social skills development in children with autism spectrum disorders. The AVP differs from other virtual agent approaches by offeri…
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Investigating Information Search by People with Cognitive Disabilities
This empirical study investigated how people with cognitive disabilities navigate websites with different content structures and use search engines to find information. Twenty-three participants with various cognitive disabilities (primarily Down syn…
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Automatic Assessment of Speech Capability Loss in Disordered Speech
This paper investigates whether the Goodness of Pronunciation (GOP) algorithm, originally developed for computer-assisted language learning to detect non-native speaker mispronunciations, can be repurposed to assess speech capability loss in people w…
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Filteryedping: Design Challenges and User Performance of Dwell-Free Eye Typing
This paper introduces Filteryedping, a dwell-free eye typing technique designed to help people with severe motor disabilities communicate through eye gaze. Traditional dwell-based eye typing requires users to fixate on a key for a specific duration (…
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Intelligibility Assessment and Speech Recognizer Word Accuracy Rate Prediction for Dysarthric Speakers in a Factor Analysis Subspace
This paper presents a novel approach to assessing speech intelligibility and predicting automatic speech recognition (ASR) accuracy for speakers with dysarthria using iVectors, a technique from speaker verification research. The authors address a cri…