Literature Reviews

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

• Detecting Hunchback Behavior in Autistic Children with Smart Phone Assistive Devices

  Shu-Hsien Lin (2012) — Proceedings of the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2012)

  This short demonstration paper presents a low-cost assistive system that uses a smartphone's built-in accelerometer to detect hunchback posture in an autistic student at the Kaohsiung Municipal Renwu Special Education School (KRSES) in Taiwan. The st…

  • autism
  • assistive technology
  • wearable technology
  • posture detection
  • special education
  • mobile technology
  • accelerometer
  • stereotypical behavior

• Thematic Organization of Web Content for Distraction-Free Text-to-Speech Narration

  Muhammad Asiful Islam, Faisal Ahmed, Yevgen Borodin, I.V. Ramakrishnan (2012) — Proceedings of the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2012)

  This paper addresses a fundamental problem in how blind users experience web content through screen readers: the serial, linear narration of complex web pages that contain multiple thematic elements — news stories, ads, navigation taxonomies, and opi…

  • screen readers
  • web segmentation
  • text-to-speech
  • blind users
  • cognitive load
  • web accessibility
  • clustering
  • information retrieval
  • content organization

• Design and Evaluation of Classifier for Identifying Sign Language Videos in Video Sharing Sites

  Caio D.D. Monteiro, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna, Frank M. Shipman (2012) — Proceedings of the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2012)

  This paper presents the design and evaluation of a video classifier that automatically distinguishes sign language (SL) videos from non-sign-language videos on video sharing sites like YouTube. Currently, deaf and hard-of-hearing users must rely on t…

  • sign language
  • deaf community
  • video classification
  • computer vision
  • machine learning
  • SVM
  • video sharing
  • YouTube
  • ASL
  • British Sign Language
  • content discovery

• What is Wrong with This Word? Dyseggxia: A Game for Children with Dyslexia

  Luz Rello, Clara Bayarri, Azuki Gorriz (2012) — Proceedings of the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2012)

  This demonstration paper presents Dyseggxia, a free mobile game application for iOS and Android that provides word exercises designed specifically for Spanish-speaking children with dyslexia. The game's content design is grounded in two empirical fou…

  • dyslexia
  • serious games
  • educational technology
  • Spanish language
  • reading accessibility
  • cognitive accessibility
  • mobile application
  • iOS
  • Android
  • spelling
  • children

• Wii Remote as a Web Navigation Device for People with Cerebral Palsy

  Nithin Santhanam (2012) — Proceedings of the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2012)

  This short paper evaluates the Nintendo Wii remote as an alternative web navigation device for people with cerebral palsy, compared to a standard wireless mouse. Despite the abundance of accessibility tools, customizable and inexpensive options for p…

  • cerebral palsy
  • alternative input device
  • motor impairment
  • web accessibility
  • Wii remote
  • game controller
  • customization
  • wheelchair users
  • assistive technology

• Basic Senior Personas: A Representative Design Tool Covering the Spectrum of European Older Adults

  Bernhard Wöckl, Ulcay Yildizoglu, Isabella Buber, Belinda Aparicio Diaz, Ernst Kruijff, Manfred Tscheligi (2012) — Proceedings of the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2012)

  This paper introduces a set of 30 "basic senior personas" representing European citizens aged 60 and older, developed using a quantitative approach based on micro-level data from approximately 12,500 individuals across 17 European countries from the …

  • older adults
  • personas
  • user-centered design
  • ambient assisted living
  • activities of daily living
  • cognitive function
  • design methodology
  • quantitative research
  • European demographics
  • persona layering

• Capture: A Desktop Display-Centric Text Recorder

  Oren Laadan, Andrew Shu, Jason Nieh (2012) — Proceedings of the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2012)

  This paper presents Capture, a display-centric text recording system that continuously tracks all onscreen text and metadata across both foreground and background windows with low overhead and without requiring modifications to applications, window s…

  • screen reader
  • accessibility API
  • accessibility tree
  • text recording
  • desktop accessibility
  • GNOME
  • Linux
  • AT-SPI
  • caching architecture
  • assistive technology

• PassChords: Secure Multi-Touch Authentication for Blind People

  Shiri Azenkot, Kyle Rector, Richard Ladner, Jacob Wobbrock (2012) — Proceedings of the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2012)

  This paper presents PassChords, a non-visual multi-touch authentication method for blind mobile device users that is resistant to both aural and visual eavesdropping. The research begins with interviews of 13 blind smartphone users (average age 51, r…

  • accessible authentication
  • blind users
  • mobile security
  • touch screen
  • VoiceOver
  • eavesdropping
  • privacy
  • screen reader
  • iPhone
  • multi-touch

• Turning Off-The-Shelf Games into Biofeedback Games

  Regan L. Mandryk, Michael Kalyn, Yichen Dang, Andre Doucette, Brett Taylor, Shane Dielschneider (2012) — Proceedings of the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2012)

  This demonstration paper presents two systems that convert existing commercial off-the-shelf games into biofeedback (BF) training games for people with cognitive impairments. Biofeedback training — particularly neurofeedback using EEG — has been show…

  • biofeedback
  • neurofeedback
  • EEG
  • cognitive impairment
  • ADHD
  • fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
  • FASD
  • self-regulation
  • game accessibility
  • serious games

• Accessible Web Automation Interface: A User Study

  Yury Puzis (2012) — Proceedings of the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2012)

  This doctoral consortium paper presents the evaluation of two web automation user interfaces designed to help blind and low-vision screen reader users complete web browsing tasks more efficiently. The fundamental problem is that while the web has bec…

  • web accessibility
  • web automation
  • screen readers
  • blind users
  • low vision
  • JAWS
  • browsing efficiency
  • user study
  • assistive technology
  • implicit automation