Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
374 results found tagged visual impairment.
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On the Evaluation of Novel Sonification Techniques for Non-Visual Shape Exploration
This paper proposes and evaluates six novel sonification techniques for enabling blind and visually impaired users to explore and recognize shapes on touchscreen devices, comparing them against two existing techniques from the literature. The motivat…
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Investigating Laboratory and Everyday Typing Performance of Blind Users
This paper presents the first longitudinal study comparing blind users' touchscreen typing performance in laboratory versus everyday real-world settings. Over 12 weeks, five novice blind smartphone users participated in eight weekly laboratory sessi…
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Design and Real-World Evaluation of Eyes-Free Yoga: An Exergame for Blind and Low-Vision Exercise
This paper presents Eyes-Free Yoga, an accessible exergame using the Microsoft Kinect that acts as a yoga instructor for people who are blind or have low vision, providing personalized auditory feedback based on real-time skeletal tracking. People wi…
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Mind Your Crossings: Mining GIS Imagery for Crosswalk Localization
This paper presents a computer vision system for automatically detecting and localizing zebra crosswalks in urban environments by mining existing geospatial image databases, specifically Google satellite imagery and Google Street View. The motivation…
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Insights on Assistive Orientation and Mobility of People with Visual Impairment Based on Large-Scale Longitudinal Data
This paper analyses large-scale longitudinal usage data from iMove, a mobile app supporting outdoor orientation for people with visual impairment (PVI), examining millions of interactions from approximately 15,000 users worldwide over 15 months. This…
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Fairness Issues in AI Systems that Augment Sensory Abilities
This paper examines the unique fairness challenges that arise when AI systems are used to augment sensory abilities for people with disabilities — a context distinct from other AI applications because these systems provide information that is already…
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NavCog3 in the Wild: Large-scale Blind Indoor Navigation Assistant with Semantic Features
This paper presents NavCog3, a smartphone-based indoor navigation assistant for people with visual impairments that combines high-accuracy Bluetooth beacon localization with rich semantic environmental features. The system uses off-the-shelf BLE beac…
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Blind Leading the Sighted: Drawing Design Insights from Blind Users towards More Productivity-oriented Voice Interfaces
This paper investigates how people who are blind use voice-activated personal assistants (VAPAs) like Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple Siri, arguing that blind users are expert voice interface users whose insights can improve VAPA design for…
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Deep Learning Compensation of Rotation Errors During Navigation Assistance for People with Visual Impairments or Blindness
This paper addresses a critical but often overlooked problem in turn-by-turn navigation assistance for people with visual impairments or blindness (VIB): rotation errors at turning points. While much navigation research focuses on improving localizat…
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Help and The Social Construction of Access: A Case-Study from India
This paper examines the role of help in how people with visual impairments (PVI) navigate indoor environments in India, challenging the Western-centric assumption that independence should be the primary goal of assistive technology design. Through a …