Literature Reviews

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

• Designing Embodied Musical Interaction for Children with Autism

  Grazia Ragone (2020) — Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2020)

  This paper presents OSMoSIS (Observation of Social Motor Synchrony with an Interactive System), an interactive musical system designed to support embodied musical interaction for children with Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC) during music therapy ses…

  • autism
  • music therapy
  • embodied interaction
  • motion capture
  • sonification
  • social motor synchrony
  • children
  • assistive technology
  • Microsoft Kinect

• Teaching ASL Signs using Signing Avatars and Immersive Learning in Virtual Reality

  Lorna C. Quandt, Jason Lamberton, Athena S. Willis, Jianye Wang, Kaitlyn Weeks, Emily Kubicek, Melissa Malzkuhn (2020) — Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2020)

  This demonstration paper presents SAIL (Signing Avatars & Immersive Learning), the first ASL instructional system built for immersive virtual reality. Developed at Gallaudet University by a majority-Deaf team, SAIL uses a signing avatar — a computer-…

  • sign language
  • American Sign Language
  • virtual reality
  • signing avatars
  • motion capture
  • embodied learning
  • Deaf accessibility
  • language learning
  • gesture tracking

• WheelPoser: Sparse-IMU Based Body Pose Estimation for Wheelchair Users

  Yunzhi Li, Vimal Mollyn, Kuang Yuan, Patrick Carrington (2024) — ASSETS '24: Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper presents WheelPoser, a real-time body pose estimation system designed specifically for wheelchair users using only four inertial measurement units (IMUs). Existing pose estimation methods are largely developed for standing and ambulatory u…

  • wheelchair users
  • pose estimation
  • inertial measurement units
  • motion capture
  • body tracking
  • health monitoring
  • assistive technology
  • machine learning