Literature Reviews

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

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Deaf Individuals' Views on Speaking Behaviors of Hearing Peers when Using an Automatic Captioning App

Matthew Seita, Matt Huenerfauth (2020) — Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '20)

This CHI 2020 Late-Breaking Work paper investigates what behaviors hearing speakers should ideally exhibit when holding in-person conversations with Deaf or deaf people using an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) captioning app on a mobile device. Th…
Tactile Emotions: Multimodal Affective Captioning with Haptics Improves Narrative Engagement for d/Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Viewers

Caluã de Lacerda Pataca, Saad Hassan, Lloyd May, Michelle M Olson, Toni D'aurio, Roshan L Peiris, Matt Huenerfauth (2025) — Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25)

This paper explores a multimodal approach to affective captioning — captions that convey not just the words a speaker says but the emotional dimensions of their voice — for d/Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (dhh) viewers. Prior work has shown that typograph…
ASL Educators' Perspectives on AI for Enhancing Student Learning in American Sign Language Education

Saad Hassan, Laleh Nourian, Caluã de Lacerda Pataca, Michelle M Olson, Toni D'aurio, Kanupriya Agarwal, Syeda Mah Noor Asad, Garreth W. Tigwell, Matt Huenerfauth (2026) — CHI '26: Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

This CHI 2026 paper from a multi-institution US team (Tulane, Rochester Institute of Technology, Birmingham City University) investigates how AI could support American Sign Language (ASL) education — and centres, for the first time in this literature…
Caption Royale: Exploring the Design Space of Affective Captions from the Perspective of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Individuals

Caluã de Lacerda Pataca, Saad Hassan, Nathan Tinker, Roshan Lalintha Peiris, Matt Huenerfauth (2024) — CHI '24: Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

This CHI 2024 paper from Rochester Institute of Technology and Tulane tackles a concrete design question: if we want captions to convey a speaker's emotion — not just their words — which typographic modulations should we use? Prior work had establish…
Fuzzy Feelings: Arousal's Interpretive Noise and the Case for Acoustic-Based Haptics

Caluã de Lacerda Pataca, Stephanie Patterson, Roshan L Peiris, Matt Huenerfauth (2026) — CHI '26: Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

This CHI 2026 paper from a team at Rochester Institute of Technology and Birmingham City University tackles a persistent gap in captioning: traditional captions carry words but strip the emotional tone, rhythm, and vocal affect that sighted hearing v…
Transforming Japanese Archives into Accessible Digital Books

Tatsuya Ishihara, Toshinari Itoko, Daisuke Sato, Asaf Tzadok, Hironobu Takagi (2012) — JCDL '12: Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

This JCDL 2012 paper from IBM Research Tokyo and Haifa tackles a problem that remained invisible in most English-focused digitisation work: producing fully accessible digital books from Japanese archives, where the writing system uses more than 10,00…
- accessible ebooks
- digitization
- japanese
- OCR
- DAISY
- EPUB
- crowdsourcing
- print disability
- structural metadata
- ALTO
- kanji
- national libraries
Motivating Multi-Generational Crowd Workers in Social-Purpose Work

Masatomo Kobayashi, Shoma Arita, Toshinari Itoko, Shin Saito, Hironobu Takagi (2015) — CSCW '15: Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing

This CSCW 2015 paper from IBM Research Tokyo and the University of Tokyo investigates how to sustain a volunteer community in 'social-purpose crowdsourcing' — crowd work with altruistic goals such as supporting libraries or producing materials for pe…
Mosaic: Collaborative Ways for Older Adults to Use Their Expertise through Information Technologies

Atsushi Hiyama, Masatomo Kobayashi, Hironobu Takagi, Michitaka Hirose (2014) — ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing, Issue 110

This SIGACCESS Newsletter article from IBM Research Tokyo and the University of Tokyo argues that accessibility research for older adults has focused too narrowly on healthcare and assistive tools that compensate for declining abilities, and proposes…
Exploring Interface Design for Independent Navigation by People with Visual Impairments

Erin L. Brady, Daisuke Sato, Chengxiong Ruan, Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa (2015) — ASSETS 2015: Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility

This short poster paper from ASSETS 2015 explores how people with visual impairments respond to different navigation interface designs during in situ walking tasks. The authors observe that prior research has been limited in two ways: user studies of…
Proposing New Metrics to Evaluate Web Usability for the Blind

Kentarou Fukuda, Shin Saito, Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa (2005) — CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

This four-page CHI '05 extended abstract argues that existing automated accessibility checkers — in 2005 typified by Bobby — had plateaued: they verified the presence of ALT attributes, labels, and markup conformance, yet real blind users still found…