Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
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Design and Psychometric Evaluation of American Sign Language Translations of Usability Questionnaires
This paper presents the first formally translated and psychometrically validated American Sign Language (ASL) versions of two widely used usability questionnaires: the System Usability Scale (SUS) and the Net Promoter Score (NPS). Many deaf adults in…
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Designing Accessible, Explainable AI (XAI) Experiences
This paper examines the intersection of explainable AI (XAI) and accessibility, identifying two primary concerns that the XAI field has largely overlooked. The first concern is accessibility at the XAI interface itself. While XAI techniques like visu…
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Designing and Evaluating a Customizable Head-mounted Vision Enhancement System for People with Low Vision
This paper presents ForeSee, a customizable head-mounted display (HMD) system that enhances the visual experience of people with low vision using real-time image processing techniques. The system offers five enhancement methods — magnification, contr…
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Toward Fairness in AI for People with Disabilities: A Research Roadmap
This position paper from Microsoft Research presents a systematic risk assessment of how major categories of AI systems may fail or discriminate against people with disabilities, proposing a four-point research roadmap for increasing AI fairness. The…
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Artificial Intelligence and the Dignity of Risk
This paper examines the dual risks and opportunities that AI-based systems pose for people with cognitive disabilities, framed around the concept of the "dignity of risk" — the right to make self-directed choices about tradeoffs between risks and ben…
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Fairness Issues in AI Systems that Augment Sensory Abilities
This paper examines the unique fairness challenges that arise when AI systems are used to augment sensory abilities for people with disabilities — a context distinct from other AI applications because these systems provide information that is already…
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Fairness of AI for People with Disabilities: Problem Analysis and Interdisciplinary Collaboration
This paper provides a philosophical analysis of the fairness challenges that machine learning-based AI poses for people with disabilities, arguing that these challenges demand unprecedented interdisciplinary collaboration across applied ethics, human…
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NavCog3 in the Wild: Large-scale Blind Indoor Navigation Assistant with Semantic Features
This paper presents NavCog3, a smartphone-based indoor navigation assistant for people with visual impairments that combines high-accuracy Bluetooth beacon localization with rich semantic environmental features. The system uses off-the-shelf BLE beac…
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Interactive Technologies Designed for Children with Autism: Reports of Use and Desires from Parents, Teachers, and Therapists
This paper examines how parents, teachers, and therapists use, perceive, discover, and desire interactive technologies for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The research combined 19 semi-structured interviews and 230 survey responses from…
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Blind Leading the Sighted: Drawing Design Insights from Blind Users towards More Productivity-oriented Voice Interfaces
This paper investigates how people who are blind use voice-activated personal assistants (VAPAs) like Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple Siri, arguing that blind users are expert voice interface users whose insights can improve VAPA design for…