Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
749 results found tagged assistive technology.
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Microsoft's Journey Towards Inclusion
This industry paper by Microsoft's Corporate Affairs Director for Australia outlines Microsoft's four-pillar accessibility strategy and its practical implementation across recruitment, onboarding, workplace culture, and innovation. The four pillars a…
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Achieving Practical and Accurate Indoor Navigation for People with Visual Impairments
This paper presents improvements to the NavCog indoor navigation system that achieve sub-meter localization accuracy for blind pedestrians while significantly reducing the infrastructure cost of deploying BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) beacon networks. G…
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Math Melodies: Supporting Visually Impaired Primary School Students in Learning Math
This demonstration paper presents Math Melodies, a free iPad application designed to teach mathematics to primary school children who are blind or visually impaired, while simultaneously engaging sighted peers. Mathematics education poses particular …
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Technology, Education and Access: A "Fair Go" for People with Disabilities
This keynote is a personal narrative by Dr. Scott Hollier, a digital access specialist diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa at age five, tracing how technology and education have shaped his life and career in accessibility. Hollier frames the talk aro…
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Working Together: Technology as the Foundation for Better Employment Outcomes for People with Disability
Written by Australia's Disability Discrimination Commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission, this keynote paper draws on the findings of the 2016 "Willing to Work" national inquiry into employment discrimination against older Australians …
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Designing an Adaptive Web Navigation Interface for Users with Variable Pointing Performance
This paper investigates how to design adaptive web navigation interfaces for people who experience variable pointing ability — difficulty using a mouse to click targets on screen that fluctuates over time due to conditions like early-stage Parkinson'…
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Multi-view Mouth Renderization for Assisting Lip-reading
This paper presents an assistive tool that uses Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to enhance video for people who rely on lip-reading. The core problem is that lip-readers generally prefer a frontal view of a speaker's face, but in real-world vi…
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Internet of Things (IoT) as Assistive Technology: Potential Applications in Tertiary Education
This short paper explores how consumer Internet of Things (IoT) devices could serve as assistive technology for students with disabilities in tertiary education, based on qualitative interviews with five students representing hearing, mobility, print…
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Understanding Mental Ill-health as Psychosocial Disability: Implications for Assistive Technology
This paper argues that mental ill-health — including depression, anxiety, and other mental, emotional, or cognitive experiences — should be understood as psychosocial disability and examined through a social model lens rather than exclusively through…
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Development of a Real-time Bionic Voice Generation System based on Statistical Excitation Prediction
This demonstration paper presents the first real-time implementation of the Pneumatic Bionic Voice (PBV) system, a voice prosthesis for people who have undergone laryngectomy — surgical removal of the larynx, typically due to advanced throat cancer. …