Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
749 results found tagged assistive technology.
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Understanding In-Situ Use of Commonly Available Navigation Technologies by People with Visual Impairments
This paper presents a qualitative study investigating how people with visual impairments use commonly available navigation technologies in their daily lives. Conducted by researchers at Microsoft Research and the University of Michigan, the study inv…
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Assistive Technology Design as a Computer Science Learning Experience
This paper from Northwestern University addresses a persistent gap in computer science education: the near-complete absence of accessibility topics from non-HCI computer science courses. The authors first conducted a formative needfinding study with …
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The Role of Sensory Changes in Everyday Technology use by People with Mild to Moderate Dementia
This qualitative study investigates how sensory changes associated with dementia interact with everyday technology use — a topic almost entirely overlooked in prior research, which has focused predominantly on cognitive support such as memory aids, t…
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Designing Embodied Musical Interaction for Children with Autism
This paper presents OSMoSIS (Observation of Social Motor Synchrony with an Interactive System), an interactive musical system designed to support embodied musical interaction for children with Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC) during music therapy ses…
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Value beyond function: analyzing the perception of wheelchair innovations in Kenya
This study evaluates a novel wheelchair service provision model called InnovATe, developed by Motivation UK, that uses Computer Aided Design (CAD) and 3D printing to manufacture bespoke wheelchairs in Kenya. Over five months at the Bethany Kids rehab…
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Bridging the Divide: Exploring the use of digital and physical technology to aid mobility impaired people living in an informal settlement
This qualitative study examines how people with mobility impairments living in Kibera, one of the largest informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya, use both traditional assistive technology (wheelchairs and tricycles) and digital technology (mobile pho…
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TableView: Enabling Efficient Access to Web Data Records for Screen-Magnifier Users
This paper addresses a significant usability challenge faced by people with low vision who use screen magnifiers to browse the web: the difficulty of comparing data records on websites such as job listings, flight search results, shopping products, a…
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Using a participatory activities toolkit to elicit privacy expectations of adaptive assistive technologies
This paper addresses a critical but often overlooked tension in assistive technology design: the privacy tradeoff inherent in adaptive assistive technologies (AATs) that must collect and analyze user performance data to function effectively. The auth…
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A Saliency-Driven Video Magnifier for People with Low Vision
This demonstration paper presents SViM (Saliency-driven Video Magnifier), a system that uses deep learning-based visual saliency prediction to automatically guide screen magnification to the most important regions of a video for people with low visio…
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A Return to Community: Flintstones or Jetsons?
This keynote-style paper uses the cultural lens of two iconic 1960s cartoons — The Flintstones and The Jetsons — to reflect on how automation and technology are shaping the lives of people with disabilities. Dr. Conway, writing from Western Australia…