Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
74 results found tagged blindness and low vision.
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WanderGuide: Indoor Map-less Robotic Guide for Exploration by Blind People
Kuribayashi and colleagues design WanderGuide, a suitcase-shaped robotic guide that supports blind people in recreational, open-ended exploration of indoor environments — wandering, browsing, window-shopping — rather than getting from A to B. The tea…
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How Does Delegation in Social Interaction Evolve Over Time? Navigation with a Robot for Blind People
Hata and colleagues run a three-week longitudinal study of how six blind participants delegate social navigation tasks to a guide robot in the Miraikan science museum. The paper pushes back against the default assumption that accessible navigation ro…
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Eyes on the Palm: Investigating a Ring-Shaped Camera for Seamless Accessible Tactile Exploration
Tsutsui and colleagues ask how the form factor of a camera-based assistive device shapes the way blind and low-vision (BLV) users coordinate their hands during tactile exploration of real museum exhibits. Smartphone apps such as Seeing AI and Be My A…
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MotionBuddy: Exploring Tactile-Based Motion Learning with a Tabletop Humanoid Robot for Blind People
This HRI 2026 study by the same team behind the earlier 3D tactile-pose work asks whether a tabletop humanoid robot can convey dynamic body movements to blind learners more effectively than audio instruction alone. The motivation is that physical 3D …
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Touching Movement: 3D Tactile Poses for Supporting Blind People in Learning Body Movements
Tanaka and colleagues investigate whether 3D-printed tactile models of whole-body poses can help blind learners acquire physical movements that are normally taught through visual demonstration. Verbal descriptions are notoriously inconsistent and str…
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Automated tactile graphics translation: in the field
This paper describes two years of field work extending the Tactile Graphics Assistant (TGA), a system developed at the University of Washington to automate the translation of figures from mathematics, science, and engineering (STEM) textbooks into em…
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Developing usable CAPTCHAs for blind users
This short ASSETS 2007 poster from a Towson University team led by Jonathan Lazar — joined by Jonathan Holman, Jinjuan Heidi Feng, and John D'Arcy of Notre Dame — addresses the long-standing accessibility problem that text-based CAPTCHAs (the distort…
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Information overload in non-visual web transaction: context analysis spells relief
This short ASSETS 2007 poster paper from Jalal Mahmud at Stony Brook University describes ongoing PhD research into reducing the information overload that blind users experience when completing multi-step web transactions — shopping, registrations, b…
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iCARE Interaction Assistant: A Wearable Face Recognition System for Individuals with Visual Impairments
This paper presents the iCARE Interaction Assistant, a wearable assistive device designed to facilitate social interactions for people who are blind or visually impaired by recognizing faces in their vicinity. The system was motivated by input from f…
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Memory Enhancement through Audio
This paper presents AudioMemory, a virtual environment based on audio designed to develop and enhance short-term memory in blind children, along with AudioMath, an extension that applies the same model to mathematics learning. Developed at the Univer…