Literature Reviews

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

• Accessible Indoor Navigation

  Kyle Montague (2010) — Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)

  This doctoral consortium paper presents early-stage research on designing an accessible indoor navigation application for disabled users. Montague identifies a key gap: while outdoor navigation benefits from GPS, indoor wayfinding remains a significa…

  • indoor navigation
  • wayfinding
  • adaptive interface
  • mobile accessibility
  • assistive technology
  • user-centered design

• Investigating Meaning in Uses of Assistive Devices: Implications of Social and Professional Contexts

  Kristen Shinohara (2010) — Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)

  This short paper presents an interview study exploring how people with disabilities experience the social and professional implications of using assistive devices. Shinohara defines assistive technologies as proprietary hardware or software made for …

  • assistive technology
  • social acceptance
  • stigma
  • assistive device design
  • self-image
  • disability identity

• A General Education Course on Universal Access, Disability, Technology and Society

  Sri H. Kurniawan, Sonia Arteaga, Roberto Manduchi (2010) — Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)

  This paper describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of a General Education course called "Universal Access: Disability, Technology and Society" (CMPE 80A) offered at the University of California Santa Cruz. The course was created to expos…

  • accessibility education
  • universal access
  • disability awareness
  • assistive technology
  • curriculum design
  • undergraduate education

• Note-Taker 2.0: The Next Step Toward Enabling Students who are Legally Blind to Take Notes in Class

  David S. Hayden, Liqing Zhou, Michael J. Astrauskas, John A. Black (2010) — Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)

  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 …

  • low vision
  • legal blindness
  • note-taking
  • STEM accessibility
  • education
  • assistive technology
  • magnification
  • camera
  • tablet PC

• Text Locating in Scene Images for Reading and Navigation Aids for Visually Impaired Persons

  Chucai Yi (2010) — Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)

  This paper presents a computer vision algorithm for locating text in natural scene images — a key capability needed for camera-based reading assistants and navigation aids for people who are blind or visually impaired. While existing reading assistan…

  • computer vision
  • text recognition
  • blindness
  • navigation
  • reading assistant
  • scene text
  • optical character recognition
  • assistive technology

• Utterance-Based Systems: Organization and Design of AAC Interfaces

  Timothy J. Walsh (2010) — Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)

  This paper describes the design and development of an utterance-based AAC interface for literate, high-functioning adults who need communication support in public situations such as restaurants or shops. The central design challenge in AAC interfaces…

  • augmentative and alternative communication
  • interface design
  • utterance-based system
  • communication rate
  • assistive technology
  • speech generation

• Color-Audio Encoding Interface for Visual Substitution: See ColOr Matlab-based Demo

  Juan Diego Gomez, Guido Bologna, Thierry Pun (2010) — Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)

  This demonstration paper presents the See ColOr (Seeing Color with an Orchestra) system, a framework that translates colour information from images into spatialized musical instrument sounds to provide people who are blind with a form of colour perce…

  • sonification
  • visual substitution
  • blindness
  • color perception
  • sensory substitution
  • spatial audio
  • HRTF
  • assistive technology

• FlashDOM: Interacting with Flash Content from the Document Object Model

  Kyle I. Murray (2010) — Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)

  This paper presents FlashDOM, a system that exposes Adobe Flash content to assistive technologies by translating Flash's internal structure and interactive elements into standard HTML Document Object Model (DOM) elements. The core problem addressed i…

  • screen readers
  • Adobe Flash
  • Document Object Model
  • web accessibility
  • assistive technology
  • WebAnywhere
  • browser extension
  • ActionScript

• Fashion for the Blind: A Study of Perspectives

  Michele A. Burton (2011) — Proceedings of the 13th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2011)

  This qualitative study explores how people with vision impairments perceive beauty and make fashion choices, an area largely overlooked in accessibility research which has focused primarily on functional clothing for mobility impairments. The researc…

  • blindness
  • low vision
  • fashion
  • clothing design
  • assistive technology
  • qualitative research
  • diary study
  • color identifier
  • smart textiles
  • shopping accessibility

• Kinerehab: A Kinect-based System for Physical Rehabilitation — A Pilot Study for Young Adults with Motor Disabilities

  Jun-Da Huang (2011) — Proceedings of the 13th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2011)

  This paper presents Kinerehab, a Kinect-based intelligent rehabilitation system designed to assist young adults with motor disabilities in performing physical therapy exercises. Developed in collaboration with physical therapists at the Kaohsiung Cou…

  • physical rehabilitation
  • motor disability
  • Kinect
  • motion sensing
  • cerebral palsy
  • assistive technology
  • gamification