Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
46 results found tagged independent living.
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Supporting Spatial Awareness and Independent Wayfinding for Pedestrians with Visual Impairments
This paper presents Talking Points 3 (TP3), a location- and orientation-aware smartphone system designed to increase the "legibility" of indoor environments for pedestrians with visual impairments, fostering spatial awareness rather than simply provi…
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ZigADL: An ADL Training System Enabling Teachers to Assist Children with Intellectual Disabilities
This poster paper presents ZigADL, a wireless sensor network system based on ZigBee technology designed to assist teachers in training children with severe intellectual disabilities to perform Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) independently. The syst…
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StopFinder: Improving the Experience of Blind Public Transit Riders with Crowdsourcing
This doctoral consortium paper presents StopFinder, a mobile system that uses crowdsourcing to collect and provide information about non-visual landmarks around bus stops for blind public transit riders. The research addresses a fundamental challenge…
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Designing an Accessible Clothing Tag System for People with Vision Impairments
This short paper explores the design of accessible clothing identification systems for people with vision impairments. The authors note that many clothing characteristics — color, pattern, fabric type, care instructions — are inherently visual and th…
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Where's My Bus Stop? Supporting Independence of Blind Transit Riders with StopInfo
This paper presents StopInfo, a system integrated into the OneBusAway transit app that provides detailed information about bus stops to help blind and low vision riders locate and verify stops, particularly in unfamiliar areas. Locating a bus stop is…
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Verification of Daily Activities of Older Adults: A Simple, Non-Intrusive, Low-Cost Approach
This paper presents a sensor-based approach to verifying whether older adults perform their daily activities at home, with the goal of supporting aging in place and informing caregiver decisions. The key conceptual distinction is between activity ver…
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A System for Controlling Assisted Living Environments Using Mobile Devices
This paper presents EasyHouse, a smartphone-based home automation system designed to be accessible for people with motor disabilities while remaining usable by all family members. The system addresses a gap in the smart home market: most domotic (hom…
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Gesture-based Interaction for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities in India
This full paper presents the design, development, and evaluation of Kirana, a Kinect-based gesture application that simulates purchasing groceries from a local Indian kirana (grocery) store to teach life skills to individuals with developmental disab…
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Kirana: A Gesture-based Market App for Life Skills Learning for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities
This demonstration paper presents Kirana, a gesture-based application that simulates the experience of purchasing items at a local Indian grocery store ("kirana") for individuals with developmental disabilities. The application was developed in colla…
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Marker-based image recognition of dynamic content for the visually impaired
This paper from IBM Research Brazil introduces a marker-based image recognition technique to help visually impaired people access information displayed on public panels and boards with fixed layouts but dynamic content — such as vending machines, spl…