Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
112 results found tagged wearable technology.
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Detecting Hunchback Behavior in Autistic Children with Smart Phone Assistive Devices
This short demonstration paper presents a low-cost assistive system that uses a smartphone's built-in accelerometer to detect hunchback posture in an autistic student at the Kaohsiung Municipal Renwu Special Education School (KRSES) in Taiwan. The st…
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UbiBraille: Designing and Evaluating a Vibrotactile Braille-Reading Device
This paper presents UbiBraille, a wearable vibrotactile device that enables blind users to read textual information privately and inconspicuously by leveraging their existing knowledge of Braille. The device consists of six small vibration motors att…
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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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WearWrite: Crowd-Assisted Writing from Smartwatches
WearWrite is a system that enables users to write documents from their smartwatches by leveraging crowd workers to translate ideas into text. The system addresses the fundamental limitation that smartwatches have severely constrained input/output — t…
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WearMail: On-the-Go Access to Information in Your Email with a Privacy-Preserving Human Computation Workflow
WearMail is a conversational system that extracts specific information from a user's email via voice queries on wearable devices (such as smartwatches), using a novel privacy-preserving human computation workflow. The system addresses the challenge t…
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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.…
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SpokeSense: Developing a Real-Time Sensing Platform for Wheelchair Sports
This paper presents SpokeSense, a wheel-mounted sensing platform designed to track and analyze wheelchair basketball performance in real time. While substantial work has gone into sensing and analytics for mainstream sports, wheelchair sports have re…
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Technical Perspective: Computation Where the (Inter)Action Is
This one-page technical perspective accompanies the SoundWatch paper in Communications of the ACM. Bigham uses SoundWatch — a smartwatch prototype that detects audio events and displays descriptions for deaf and hard-of-hearing people — as a lens to …
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SpeechOmeter: Heads-up Monitoring to Improve Speech Clarity
This demonstration paper presents SpeechOmeter, a Google Glass application that provides real-time visual biofeedback on vocal loudness to help individuals with neuromotor speech disorders (dysarthria) speak more clearly during daily conversation. Dy…
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A Google Glass App to Help the Blind in Small Talk
This demo paper presents a Google Glass prototype that helps blind individuals initiate small talk by automatically analysing a scene to detect the number of people present, their approximate ages, and gender distribution, then synthesising this info…