Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
76 results found tagged education.
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Memory Enhancement through Audio
This paper presents AudioMemory, a virtual environment based on audio designed to develop and enhance short-term memory in blind children, along with AudioMath, an extension that applies the same model to mathematics learning. Developed at the Univer…
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Virtual Environments for Social Skills Training: The Importance of Scaffolding in Practice
This paper describes the design and initial testing of two single-user virtual environment (VE) scenarios developed as part of the AS Interactive project, a multidisciplinary effort involving VR developers, psychologists, human factors researchers, a…
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Constructing Sonified Haptic Line Graphs for the Blind Student: First Steps
This paper presents early research from the University of Glasgow's MultiVis project, a three-year initiative investigating how different sensory modalities can make statistical information representations accessible to blind people. The focus is on …
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Reading and Writing Mathematics: The MAVIS Project
This paper from New Mexico State University presents the MAVIS (Mathematics Accessible to Visually Impaired Students) project, an NSF-funded effort to develop comprehensive tools for bidirectional communication of mathematics between blind students a…
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"Composability": Widening Participation in Music Making for People with Disabilities via Music Software and Controller Solutions
This paper from the Drake Music Project and University of York discusses enabling visually impaired and physically disabled people to compose and perform music through adapted software and controller solutions. The Drake Music Project (DMP), a UK cha…
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Note-Taker: Enabling Students Who Are Legally Blind to Take Notes in Class
This full paper from Arizona State University presents the CUbiC Note-Taker in detail, including its motivation, design principles, and results from two extensive case studies totaling over 200 hours of in-class use. The paper opens with a compelling…
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Enabling the Legally Blind in Classroom Note-Taking
This paper demonstrates the CUbiC Note Taker, a portable assistive device developed at Arizona State University that enables students who are legally blind to independently take notes in classroom settings. The system addresses multiple limitations o…
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Tactile Chart Generation Tool
This paper presents a Java application that automatically generates tactile bar and pie charts from raw data values provided in a formatted text file. Developed in collaboration with Vision Australia, the tool addresses the time-consuming and expensi…
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Refreshable tactile graphics applied to schoolbook illustrations for students with visual impairment
This paper presents research on making schoolbook illustrations accessible to students with visual impairments using a refreshable tactile display system. The system combines the STReSS2 (Stimulator of Tactile Receptors by Skin Stretch), a device tha…
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Note-Taker 2.0: The Next Step Toward Enabling Students who are Legally Blind to Take Notes in Class
This paper describes the iterative design and usability testing of the Note-Taker, a portable assistive device that enables students who are legally blind to take notes during classroom lectures. The core problem is that note-taking requires rapidly …