Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
749 results found tagged assistive technology.
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Personalization and Layering to Simplify Computer Accessibility
This demonstration paper presents Morphic, an operating system extension that combines auto-personalization, complexity layering, enhanced feature discovery, and Install on Demand (IoD) to make computers easier to use for people who face barriers due…
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CHIMELIGHT: Augmenting Instruments in Interactive Music Therapy for Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders
This paper presents CHIMELIGHT, an IoT-based system that augments handchime musical instruments with real-time visual feedback to support music therapists working with children who have neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) including autism spectrum di…
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A Community-Centered Design Framework for Robot-Assisted Feeding Systems
This paper develops a community-centered design framework for evaluating robot-assisted feeding (RAF) systems, shifting the perspective from purely transactional (robot picks up food, delivers to mouth) to relational (feeding as a social, cultural, a…
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Revisiting Blind Photography in the Context of Teachable Object Recognizers
This paper introduces a real-time audio-haptic feedback system to help people with visual impairments frame objects in their smartphone camera when training teachable object recognizers. The challenge is that teachable recognizers — which let users t…
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See-Thru: Towards Minimally Obstructive Eye-Controlled Wheelchair Interfaces
This paper presents See-Thru, an eye-tracking interface for controlling power wheelchairs that replaces the conventional obstructive computer screen with a transparent wire-frame device containing spatially arranged LEDs. The fundamental problem with…
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WordMelodies: Supporting Children with Visual Impairment in Learning Literacy
This demonstration paper presents WordMelodies, an inclusive cross-platform mobile application designed to support children with visual impairments in acquiring basic literacy skills. The app provides eight different exercises targeting foundational …
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Handsfree for Web: A Google Chrome extension to browse the web via voice commands
This demonstration paper presents Handsfree for Web, a free Google Chrome browser extension that enables users to browse the web entirely through voice commands. The tool addresses a fundamental accessibility barrier: nearly all websites require manu…
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Continuous Web Personalization using Selector-template Pairs
This paper presents a continuous web personalization approach that automatically adjusts website user interfaces based on observed usage patterns to reduce accessibility barriers and usability problems. Built on the WELFIT (Web Event Logger and Flow …
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Designing Personalized Therapy Tools for People with Dementia
This paper presents the iterative design and clinical deployment of Scrapbook, a web platform that supports psychologists in conducting personalized reminiscence therapy and cognitive stimulation sessions for people with dementia using biographical m…
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Feel-It: Personalized Audio-Tactile Web Browsing
This demonstration paper presents Feel-It, a hardware-software system for audio-tactile web browsing that enables blind users to explore the two-dimensional spatial layout of web pages through touch. The core problem addressed is that screen readers …