Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
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Encouraging Speech and Vocalization in Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder
This paper reviews existing HCI research on autism spectrum disorder and proposes a new direction: using technology to encourage speech and vocalization in children with ASD who have not acquired spoken language. The author identifies a gap in the fi…
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Simulating HCI for Special Needs
This paper describes the development of a simulator designed to model human-computer interaction for users with physical disabilities, addressing a significant gap in HCI research. The author argues that existing HCI models such as the GOMS family (K…
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Early Diagnosis of Autism through Analysis of Pre-Speech Vocalizations
This paper proposes an approach for early diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) by computationally analyzing the pre-speech vocalizations of infants aged 6 to 18 months. The author notes that while autism can be reliably diagnosed by age 3, and…
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Improving Public Transit Accessibility for Blind Riders by Crowdsourcing Bus Stop Landmark Locations with Google Street View: An Extended Analysis
This paper tackles a fundamental challenge in public transit accessibility: helping blind and low-vision riders locate bus stops, which often lack nonvisual markers or consistent landmark placement. The researchers developed Bus Stop CSI (Crowdsourci…
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Experiences of Someone with a Neuromuscular Disease in Operating a PC (and Ways to Successfully Overcome Challenges)
This paper describes the first-person experiences of the first author, who has Friedreich's Ataxia (FA) — a progressive neuromuscular disease causing ataxia of limbs, dysarthria, and muscle weakness — in finding a viable computer input method over 25…
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Designing Wheelchair-Based Movement Games
This paper presents KINECTWheels, a toolkit for integrating wheelchair movements into motion-based video games, along with two games built using the toolkit: Cupcake Heaven (designed for older adults in care facilities) and Wheelchair Revolution (a c…
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Development of a Remote Therapy Tool for Childhood Apraxia of Speech
This paper presents a multitier client-server system for remote administration of speech therapy to children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS), a motor speech disorder where the brain has difficulty coordinating the movements needed for speech p…
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Audio-Based Feedback Techniques for Teaching Touchscreen Gestures
This paper proposes and evaluates two complementary audio-based techniques for teaching touchscreen gestures to blind and low-vision users: gesture sonification (mapping finger position to pitch and stereo panning to create an audio representation of…
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Evaluating Intelligibility and Battery Drain of Mobile Sign Language Video Transmitted at Low Frame Rates and Bit Rates
This paper investigates the lower limits of intelligible sign language video on mobile devices, seeking to determine the minimum frame rate and bit rate that still allow deaf users to understand ASL video conversations. Mobile video communication is …
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Tactile Graphics with a Voice
This paper presents Tactile Graphics with a Voice (TGV), a system that uses QR codes and a smartphone application to make text labels on tactile graphics accessible to blind and low-vision users — particularly the estimated 60% of blind people who ar…