Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
749 results found tagged assistive technology.
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Accessible Crowdwork? Understanding the Value in and Challenge of Microtask Employment for People with Disabilities
This paper presents the first formal study of crowdworkers who have disabilities, using a mixed-methods approach combining in-depth interviews with 17 people (8 disabled crowdworkers and 9 job coaches for people with disabilities) and a survey of 631…
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Scribe: Deep Integration of Human and Machine Intelligence to Caption Speech in Real Time
Scribe is a system that provides on-demand, real-time captioning of live speech for deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) people by combining groups of non-expert human captionists with machine intelligence. The system addresses a critical accessibility gap…
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Zensors: Adaptive, Rapidly Deployable, Human-Intelligent Sensor Feeds
Zensors presents a novel sensing platform that combines real-time human intelligence from online crowd workers with machine learning to create adaptive, rapidly deployable intelligent sensors. The system addresses a fundamental gap in smart environme…
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VizLens: A Robust and Interactive Screen Reader for Interfaces in the Real World
This paper introduces VizLens, a system that functions as a screen reader for physical interfaces in the real world, enabling blind people to independently use inaccessible appliances like microwaves, thermostats, kiosks, and checkout terminals. VizL…
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The Design of Human-Powered Access Technology
This paper presents a comprehensive framework of 13 design dimensions for evaluating and comparing human-powered access technology — systems that use human assistance, facilitated by technology, to overcome accessibility barriers that automation alon…
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Facade: Auto-generating Tactile Interfaces to Appliances
This paper introduces Facade, a crowdsourced fabrication pipeline that enables blind people to independently make flat-panel appliance interfaces accessible by generating 3D-printed tactile button overlays. The problem addressed is that modern applia…
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What the Disability Community Can Teach Us About Interactive Crowdsourcing
This short forum article argues that the disability community has been practicing interactive crowdsourcing long before the term became mainstream in computing, and that mainstream crowdsourcing systems have much to learn from these experiences. The …
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Real Time Object Scanning Using a Mobile Phone and Cloud-based Visual Search Engine
This paper presents Scan Search, an iPhone application that enables blind users to identify everyday objects in real time by continuously scanning with their phone camera rather than taking individual photos. The core challenge addressed is that blin…
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RegionSpeak: Quick Comprehensive Spatial Descriptions of Complex Images for Blind Users
This paper introduces RegionSpeak, a mobile application that helps blind users get comprehensive spatial descriptions of complex visual scenes by combining image stitching with parallelized crowdsourced labeling. The authors identify a gap in existin…
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ApplianceReader: A Wearable, Crowdsourced, Vision-based System to Make Appliances Accessible
This work-in-progress paper presents ApplianceReader, a wearable system that combines a point-of-view camera (Google Glass) with crowdsourcing and computer vision to make everyday appliance control panels accessible to people with visual impairments.…