Literature Reviews

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

• 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

• Speed-of-Light VR for Blind People: Conveying the Location of Arm-Reach Targets

  Diogo Lança, Manuel Piçarra, Inês Gonçalves, Uran Oh, André Rodrigues, João Guerreiro (2024) — Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2024)

  This paper explores how blind people can locate and interact with close-range virtual objects in Virtual Reality (VR), a space that relies almost entirely on visual cues. Researchers from the University of Lisbon and Ewha Womans University adapted th…

  • virtual reality
  • visual impairments
  • blindness
  • nonvisual feedback
  • sonification
  • spatial awareness
  • gaming accessibility
  • exergames