Literature Reviews

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

• FootUI: Designing and Detecting Foot Gestures to Assist People with Upper Body Motor Impairments to Use Smartphones on the Bed

  Xiaozhu Hu, Jiting Wang, Weiwei Gao, Yongquan Hu (2022) — Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This paper presents FootUI, a vision-based interaction technique that enables people with upper body motor impairments but sound lower limbs to use smartphones through foot gestures while reclining on a bed. The system uses the phone's front-facing c…

  • motor accessibility
  • foot-based interaction
  • gesture recognition
  • smartphone accessibility
  • computer vision
  • input methods
  • upper body motor impairment

• GestureVoice: Enabling Multimodal Text Editing for Blind Users Using Gestures and Voice

  Prerna Khanna, Sai Pravallika Reddy, IV Ramakrishnan, Xiaojun Bi, Aruna Balasubramanian (2025) — ASSETS 2025: 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper introduces GestureVoice, a multimodal text editing system that enables blind smartphone users to edit text using mid-air hand gestures detected by a smartwatch combined with voice commands, eliminating the need for touchscreen interaction.…

  • text editing
  • blind users
  • multimodal interaction
  • gesture recognition
  • voice commands
  • smartwatch
  • wearable technology
  • screen readers
  • mobile accessibility
  • eyes-free interaction