Literature Reviews

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

• Beyond the Cane: Describing Urban Scenes to Blind People for Mobility Tasks

  Karin M. P. Hoogsteen, Florian Mathis, Garreth W. Tigwell, Alastair R. Beresford, Mohamed Khamis (2022) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This research investigates what environmental information is most useful for blind pedestrians navigating urban spaces, moving beyond obstacle-avoidance to understand comprehensive scene description needs. The authors conducted two experiments with 1…

  • blindness
  • mobility
  • orientation and mobility
  • navigation
  • scene description
  • Electronic Travel Aids
  • wayfinding
  • spatial orientation