Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
7 results found tagged Google Glass.
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ApplianceReader: A Wearable, Crowdsourced, Vision-based System to Make Appliances Accessible
This work-in-progress paper presents ApplianceReader, a wearable system that combines a point-of-view camera (Google Glass) with crowdsourcing and computer vision to make everyday appliance control panels accessible to people with visual impairments.…
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SpeechOmeter: Heads-up Monitoring to Improve Speech Clarity
This demonstration paper presents SpeechOmeter, a Google Glass application that provides real-time visual biofeedback on vocal loudness to help individuals with neuromotor speech disorders (dysarthria) speak more clearly during daily conversation. Dy…
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A Google Glass App to Help the Blind in Small Talk
This demo paper presents a Google Glass prototype that helps blind individuals initiate small talk by automatically analysing a scene to detect the number of people present, their approximate ages, and gender distribution, then synthesising this info…
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Expression: A Google Glass Based Assistive Solution for Social Signal Processing
This demo paper presents Expression, a Google Glass-based assistive system that enables blind and visually impaired users to perceive non-verbal social signals during face-to-face conversations. Limited access to non-verbal cues — facial expressions,…
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Headlock: A Wearable Navigation Aid that Helps Blind Cane Users Traverse Large Open Spaces
This paper presents HEADLOCK, a navigation aid for optical head-mounted displays (OHMDs) like Google Glass that helps blind cane users traverse large open spaces—environments that are particularly challenging because they lack the tactile features (w…
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Sequential Gestural Passcodes on Google Glass
This poster paper presents a prototype authentication system using Google Glass to help people with visual impairments access online accounts while protecting against shoulder surfing attacks. The author identifies two intersecting problems: blind us…
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The Cost of Turning Heads: A Comparison of a Head-Worn Display to a Smartphone for Supporting Persons with Aphasia in Conversation
This study directly compares head-worn displays (HWDs) to smartphones for providing vocabulary support to people with aphasia—an acquired language disorder caused by brain damage (typically stroke) that affects word-finding, comprehension, and langua…