Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• "It only needs to work for one of us": Rethinking DIY Deaf Tech Through Situated Co-Design

  Shuxu Huffman, Robin Angelini, Raja Kushalnagar, Katta Spiel (2025) — Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '25)

  This experience report documents how a Deaf open water swimmer (Huffman, the first author) and their hearing kayak partner collaboratively designed and built DeafSwim, a vibration-based communication system for use during long-distance open water swi…

  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • assistive technology
  • DIY assistive technology
  • co-design
  • participatory design
  • deaf culture
  • vibrotactile feedback
  • wearable technology

• Designing and Evaluating a Customizable Head-mounted Vision Enhancement System for People with Low Vision

  Yuhang Zhao, Sarit Szpiro, Lei Shi, Shiri Azenkot (2019) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

  This paper presents ForeSee, a customizable head-mounted display (HMD) system that enhances the visual experience of people with low vision using real-time image processing techniques. The system offers five enhancement methods — magnification, contr…

  • low vision
  • head-mounted display
  • vision enhancement
  • magnification
  • edge enhancement
  • contrast enhancement
  • smartwatch
  • speech commands
  • customization
  • wearable technology