Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
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Irrelevant Gadgets or a Source of Worry: Exploring Wearable Activity Trackers with Older Adults
This qualitative study explores older adults' perspectives on wearable activity trackers and physical activity (PA), addressing a gap in research that typically focuses on system performance rather than user perspectives. The researchers conducted a …
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How Could Equality and Data Protection Law Shape AI Fairness for People with Disabilities?
This interdisciplinary paper examines how UK equality law and EU data protection law (GDPR) intersect with AI fairness for people with disabilities (PWD). The authors argue that AI fairness for PWD requires a fundamentally different approach than for…
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Immersive Virtual Reality for Older Adults: Empirically Grounded Design Guidelines
This paper establishes empirically grounded design guidelines for immersive virtual reality (IVR) experiences targeting older adults. The researchers conducted two complementary studies: first, a systematic literature review that compiled 67 design g…
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The FATE Landscape of Sign Language AI Datasets: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
This interdisciplinary paper examines the ethical landscape of AI datasets used for sign language recognition, generation, and translation technologies. Drawing on expertise from deaf community members, sign language linguists, and AI researchers, th…
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Toward a Competency-based Approach to Co-designing Technologies with People with Intellectual Disability
This paper proposes a Competency-based design approach for co-designing technologies with people with intellectual disability, extending Wobbrock et al.'s influential ability-based design framework. While ability-based design focuses on what users "c…
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Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Users Evaluating Designs for Highlighting Key Words in Educational Lecture Videos
This empirical study investigates design preferences for keyword highlighting in video captions among Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) users. While style guides like the APA Publication Manual and Chicago Manual of Style provide recommendations for hig…
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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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Do You Hear What I Hear: The Balancing Act of Designing an Electronic Hockey Puck for Playing Hockey Non-Visually
This research investigates the design requirements for an electronic hockey puck that enables blind and visually impaired players to locate and track the puck through sound. Blind hockey currently uses a league-standard puck (LSP) containing ball bea…
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Iterative Design of Sonification Techniques to Support People with Visual Impairments in Obstacle Avoidance
This paper presents WatchOut, a sonification system that conveys real-time obstacle information to blind or visually impaired (BVI) people through non-verbal audio cues. While white canes detect obstacles only within about 1 meter and miss elevated h…
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Factors Affecting the Accessibility of Voice Telephony for People with Hearing Loss: Audio Encoding, Network Impairments, Video and Environmental Noise
This comprehensive study from Gallaudet University investigates how audio quality parameters affect voice telephony accessibility for people with hearing loss. The research combines a survey of 439 individuals with hearing loss and four controlled ex…