Literature Reviews

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

• Design and Real-World Evaluation of Eyes-Free Yoga: An Exergame for Blind and Low-Vision Exercise

  Kyle Rector, Roger Vilardaga, Leo Lansky, Kellie Lu, Cynthia L. Bennett, Richard E. Ladner, Julie A. Kientz (2017) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

  This paper presents Eyes-Free Yoga, an accessible exergame using the Microsoft Kinect that acts as a yoga instructor for people who are blind or have low vision, providing personalized auditory feedback based on real-time skeletal tracking. People wi…

  • visual impairment
  • exergame
  • exercise
  • Kinect
  • audio feedback
  • health
  • motivation
  • in-home deployment
  • pose estimation

• Mind Your Crossings: Mining GIS Imagery for Crosswalk Localization

  Dragan Ahmetovic, Roberto Manduchi, James M. Coughlan, Sergio Mascetti (2017) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

  This paper presents a computer vision system for automatically detecting and localizing zebra crosswalks in urban environments by mining existing geospatial image databases, specifically Google satellite imagery and Google Street View. The motivation…

  • visual impairment
  • orientation and mobility
  • computer vision
  • navigation
  • crowdsourcing
  • GIS
  • pedestrian safety
  • urban accessibility

• Designing Gesture-Based Applications for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities: Guidelines from User Studies in India

  Sumita Sharma, Blessin Varkey, Krishnaveni Achary, Jaakko Hakulinen, Markku Turunen, Tomi Heimonen, Saurabh Srivastava, Nitendra Rajput (2018) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

  This paper presents the design, evaluation, and resulting guidelines from three gesture-based applications created for individuals with developmental disabilities in India, developed through a long-term collaboration with Tamana, an NGO and special e…

  • developmental disabilities
  • gesture interaction
  • special education
  • inclusive design
  • Global South accessibility
  • autism spectrum disorder
  • intellectual disability
  • Kinect
  • life skills

• Pictures in Your Mind: Using Interactive Gesture-Controlled Reliefs to Explore Art

  Andreas Reichinger, Helena Garcia Carrizosa, Joanna Wood, Svenja Schröder, Christian Löw, Laura Rosalia Luidolt, Maria Schimkowitsch, Anton Fuhrmann, Stefan Maierhofer, Werner Purgathofer (2018) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

  This paper presents an interactive audio guide (IAG) system that combines 3D-printed tactile reliefs with gesture-controlled, location-dependent audio descriptions to make visual art accessible to blind, visually impaired, and cognitively disabled us…

  • tactile graphics
  • museum accessibility
  • blind and visually impaired
  • audio description
  • gesture interaction
  • depth camera
  • multimodal interaction
  • cognitive disability
  • art accessibility
  • 3D printing

• Tenets for Social Accessibility: Towards Humanizing Disabled People in Design

  Kristen Shinohara, Cynthia L. Bennett, Wanda Pratt, Jacob O. Wobbrock (2018) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

  This paper investigates how student designers think about disability and accessibility when tasked with designing for multiple users with and without disabilities, and uses the findings to refine the Design for Social Accessibility framework. Conduct…

  • social accessibility
  • design methodology
  • accessibility education
  • inclusive design
  • user-centered design
  • disability studies

• Drop-Down Menu Widget Identification Using HTML Structure Changes Classification

  Humberto Lidio Antonelli, Rodrigo Augusto Igawa, Renata Pontin De Mattos Fortes, Eduardo Henrique Rizo, Willian Massami Watanabe (2018) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

  This paper addresses a critical gap in web accessibility: the widespread failure of interactive widgets in rich internet applications (RIAs) to implement WAI-ARIA markup, rendering them inaccessible to screen reader users and other assistive technolo…

  • ARIA
  • web accessibility
  • machine learning
  • widgets
  • automated testing
  • rich internet applications
  • DOM

• Guidelines for Creating Senior-Friendly Product Instructions

  Meng Fan, Khai N. Truong (2018) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

  This paper addresses the widespread challenge older adults face when using product instructions, which are typically designed for a general audience without consideration for age-related changes in cognition, vision, and motor skills. The authors dev…

  • aging
  • product instructions
  • guidelines
  • usability
  • older adults
  • instructional design
  • cognitive accessibility

• Design and Evaluation of a Collaborative Virtual Environment (CoMove) for Autism Spectrum Disorder Intervention

  Lian Zhang, Qiang Fu, Amy Swanson, Amy Weitlauf, Zachary Warren, Nilanjan Sarkar (2018) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

  This paper presents CoMove, a collaborative virtual environment (CVE) designed to measure and potentially enhance collaborative interaction and verbal communication skills of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) when playing with typically de…

  • autism
  • collaborative virtual environment
  • social skills
  • peer interaction
  • puzzle games
  • verbal communication
  • objective measurement
  • intervention
  • children

• Insights on Assistive Orientation and Mobility of People with Visual Impairment Based on Large-Scale Longitudinal Data

  Hernisa Kacorri, Sergio Mascetti, Andrea Gerino, Dragan Ahmetovic, Valeria Alampi, Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa (2018) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

  This paper analyses large-scale longitudinal usage data from iMove, a mobile app supporting outdoor orientation for people with visual impairment (PVI), examining millions of interactions from approximately 15,000 users worldwide over 15 months. This…

  • orientation and mobility
  • visual impairment
  • large-scale data
  • longitudinal study
  • user clustering
  • mobile navigation
  • points of interest
  • usage analytics
  • residual vision

• WeAllWalk: An Annotated Dataset of Inertial Sensor Time Series from Blind Walkers

  Germán H. Flores, Roberto Manduchi (2018) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

  This paper introduces WeAllWalk, an annotated dataset of inertial sensor time series collected from blind and sighted walkers navigating complex indoor routes. Ten blind volunteers (seven using a long cane, one using a guide dog, and two alternating …

  • indoor navigation
  • blindness
  • inertial sensing
  • step counting
  • turn detection
  • pedestrian dead reckoning
  • dataset
  • white cane
  • guide dog
  • gait analysis