Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• Enhancing Accessibility in Webtoons: Investigating Audio Effect Placement Strategies for Visually Impaired Users

  Heewon Lee, Juwon Cheong, Minsung Kim, Jia Kim, Hyunjung Kim (2025) — ASSETS 2025: 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This extended abstract investigates how the timing of audio effect (AE) placement—before, during (overlapping), or after narration—affects the user experience of audio-described webtoons for visually impaired users. Webtoons are Korean-originated ver…

  • blindness
  • low vision
  • audio description
  • webtoons
  • digital comics
  • sound design
  • immersion
  • user experience
  • media accessibility

• Pictures in Your Mind: Using Interactive Gesture-Controlled Reliefs to Explore Art

  Andreas Reichinger, Helena Garcia Carrizosa, Joanna Wood, Svenja Schröder, Christian Löw, Laura Rosalia Luidolt, Maria Schimkowitsch, Anton Fuhrmann, Stefan Maierhofer, Werner Purgathofer (2018) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

  This paper presents an interactive audio guide (IAG) system that combines 3D-printed tactile reliefs with gesture-controlled, location-dependent audio descriptions to make visual art accessible to blind, visually impaired, and cognitively disabled us…

  • tactile graphics
  • museum accessibility
  • blind and visually impaired
  • audio description
  • gesture interaction
  • depth camera
  • multimodal interaction
  • cognitive disability
  • art accessibility
  • 3D printing

• Towards Accessible Musical Performances in Virtual Reality: Designing a Conceptual Framework for Omnidirectional Audio Descriptions

  Khang Dang, Grace Burke, Hamdi Korreshi, Sooyeon Lee (2024) — Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '24)

  This paper develops a conceptual framework for omnidirectional audio description (AD) designed to make musical performances in virtual reality accessible to blind and low-vision (BLV) users. Traditional AD — a monaural narration track describing visu…

  • audio description
  • virtual reality
  • blind and low vision
  • spatial audio
  • musical performances
  • immersive media