Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
44 results found tagged non-visual interaction.
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PLUMB: An Interface for Users Who are Blind to Display, Create, and Modify Graphs
This demonstration paper presents the latest version of PLUMB (exPLoring graphs at UMB), extending it beyond passive graph exploration to include the ability for blind and sighted users to create and modify graphs. The original PLUMB system displayed…
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Using an Audio Interface to Assist Users Who are Visually Impaired with Steering Tasks
This paper presents results from an ongoing study of PLUMB (exPLoring graphs at UMB), a software system that uses audio feedback and a pen-based Tablet PC interface to make relational graphs and diagrams accessible to users who are blind. Graphs — co…
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PLUMB: Displaying Graphs to the Blind Using an Active Auditory Interface
This short paper presents PLUMB (exPLoring graphs at UMB), a system developed at UMass Boston that enables blind users to explore relational graphs through an active auditory interface on a tablet PC. The system addresses a fundamental barrier in com…
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3D Sound Interactive Environments for Problem Solving
This paper from the University of Chile presents AudioChile, a 3D sound virtual environment designed to help children with visual disabilities develop problem-solving skills through interactive exploration of Chilean geography and culture. AudioChile…
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Multimodal User Input Patterns in a Non-Visual Context
This exploratory study from the New Jersey Institute of Technology investigates how users choose between speech and hand (touchpad) inputs when performing tasks in a non-visual interface. The research used AudioBrowser, a system that organizes inform…
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iSonic: Interactive Sonification for Non-visual Data Exploration
This paper presents iSonic, an interactive sonification tool developed at the University of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Lab that enables vision-impaired users to explore geo-referenced statistical data such as population distribution, crime r…
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Rendering Tables in Audio: The Interaction of Structure and Reading Styles
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of why HTML tables are problematic for screen reader users and proposes two complementary approaches for non-visual table access. The authors from the University of Manchester first characterize what makes…
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Evaluation of a Non-Visual Molecule Browser
This paper evaluates Kekulé, software designed to allow visually impaired users to explore chemical molecular structures — diagrams that are typically presented as two-dimensional graph schematics showing atoms (nodes) connected by bonds (edges). Mol…
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The Audio Abacus: Representing Numerical Values with Nonspeech Sound for the Visually Impaired
This paper introduces the Audio Abacus, a novel sonification application that transforms exact numerical values into sequences of non-speech tones, following the analogy of a physical abacus where each digit is represented by a distinct sound. Unlike…
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Multimodal Virtual Reality Versus Printed Medium in Visualization for Blind People
This paper presents a comparative evaluation of two approaches for making bar chart data accessible to blind and visually impaired people: traditional raised tactile diagrams and a multimodal virtual reality system. The VR system combines a SensAble …