Literature Reviews

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

• Tactile Materials in Practice: Understanding the Experiences of Teachers of the Visually Impaired

  Mahika Phutane, Julie Wright, Brenda Veronica Castro, Lei Shi, Simone R. Stern, Holly M. Lawson, Shiri Azenkot (2022) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This research investigates how Teachers of the Visually Impaired (TVIs) create, acquire, and use tactile materials—tactile graphics, 3D models, and real objects—in their educational practice. Despite growing research interest in tactile material crea…

  • visual impairment
  • blindness
  • tactile graphics
  • 3D models
  • education
  • teachers of the visually impaired
  • Expanded Core Curriculum
  • braille
  • orientation and mobility

• "If you've gone straight, now, you must turn left" - Exploring the use of a tangible interface in a collaborative treasure hunt for people with visual impairments

  Quentin Chibaudel, Wafa Johal, Bernard Oriola, Marc J-M Macé, Pierre Dillenbourg, Valérie Tartas, Christophe Jouffrais (2020) — Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2020)

  This paper from a collaboration between IRIT (Toulouse), UNSW Sydney, EPFL, and Université Toulouse investigates how tangible user interfaces — specifically a small graspable robot called the Cellulo — can mediate collaboration between two people wit…

  • visual impairments
  • tangible user interface
  • collaborative learning
  • spatial cognition
  • wayfinding
  • haptic feedback
  • robots
  • serious games
  • 3D models
  • non-visual interaction