Literature Reviews

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

• Real-Time Captioning by Groups of Non-Experts

  Walter Lasecki, Christopher Miller, Adam Sadilek, Andrew Abumoussa, Donato Borrello, Raja Kushalnagar, Jeffrey Bigham (2012) — UIST '12: Proceedings of the 25th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

  This paper presents Legion:Scribe, an end-to-end system that enables groups of non-expert typists to collectively produce real-time captions for deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) people, offering a cheaper and more available alternative to professional …

  • real-time captioning
  • crowdsourcing
  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • human computation
  • text alignment
  • CART alternatives
  • assistive technology
  • speech recognition

• Adaptive Time Windows for Real-Time Crowd Captioning

  Matthew J. Murphy, Christopher D. Miller, Walter S. Lasecki, Jeffrey P. Bigham (2013) — CHI EA '13: CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

  This paper addresses a key barrier to real-time captioning access for deaf and hard of hearing people: the high cost of professional stenographers, who can charge up to $200 per hour. Building on the Legion:Scribe system, which demonstrated that grou…

  • real-time captioning
  • crowdsourcing
  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • assistive technology
  • human computation
  • CART alternatives