Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
749 results found tagged assistive technology.
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The Tactile Graphics Helper: Providing Audio Clarification for Tactile Graphics Using Machine Vision
This paper presents the Tactile Graphics Helper (TGH), a machine vision system that enables students who are blind or visually impaired to independently access clarifying information about tactile graphics without sighted assistance. Tactile graphics…
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Breaking Barriers with Assistive Macros
This paper introduces Assistive Macros, an Android accessibility service that enables users with motor impairments to perform multi-step interactions with a single selection. The system addresses two critical problems: the extreme time consumption of…
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The Implementation of a Vocabulary and Grammar for an Open-Source Speech-Recognition Programming Platform
This paper presents the development of a standardized vocabulary and grammar for voice-based programming, designed to make coding accessible to people with limited hand mobility or visual impairments. The work is part of the larger Kavita Project, wh…
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Gaze Typing Through Foot-Operated Wearable Device
This paper presents a dwell-free gaze typing system that combines eye tracking with a foot-operated wearable device to enable text entry for people with motor impairments affecting arms or spine. Traditional gaze typing requires users to "dwell" (fix…
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A Platform Agnostic Remote Desktop System for Screen Reading
Sinter addresses a fundamental barrier to remote desktop accessibility: traditional remote desktop technology scrapes pixels from the remote screen and redraws them as bitmaps on the client, losing all semantic information that screen readers require…
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Magic Touch: Interacting with 3D Printed Graphics
Magic Touch is a computer vision-based system that augments 3D printed tactile graphics with audio information, addressing a key limitation of physical models for blind users: while 3D printing can effectively convey shapes and textures, text annotat…
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A Personalizable Mobile Sound Detector App Design for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Users
This paper presents the design and evaluation of a personalizable mobile phone app that detects sounds of interest to deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) users by learning from training examples recorded by the user themselves. Unlike existing commercial …
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Ad-Hoc Access to Musical Sound for Deaf Individuals
This poster paper presents MuSS-Bits (Music Sensory Substitution Bits), a wearable sensor-display system that enables deaf individuals to explore musical sound from various audio sources with real-time vibrotactile feedback. While existing sensory su…
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Uncovering Challenges and Opportunities for 3D Printing Assistive Technology with Physical Therapists
This paper investigates the feasibility and challenges of integrating 3D printing into physical therapy (PT) practice for creating customized assistive technology (AT). Physical therapists routinely modify standardized AT devices using temporary mate…
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Comparing Tactile, Auditory, and Visual Assembly Error-Feedback for Workers with Cognitive Impairments
This paper compares three modalities of error feedback — tactile, auditory, and visual — for cognitively impaired workers performing manual assembly tasks at sheltered work organizations. Industrial manufacturing companies increasingly outsource asse…