Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
12 results found tagged Internet of Things.
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ZigAlert: A ZigBee Alert for Toileting Training Children with Developmental Delay in a Public School Setting
This short paper presents ZigAlert, a wireless sensor network system based on ZigBee technology designed to assist with toilet training for children with severe developmental delays in a public school setting. The system addresses a practical challen…
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ZigADL: An ADL Training System Enabling Teachers to Assist Children with Intellectual Disabilities
This poster paper presents ZigADL, a wireless sensor network system based on ZigBee technology designed to assist teachers in training children with severe intellectual disabilities to perform Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) independently. The syst…
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Automated Class Discovery and One-Shot Interactions for Acoustic Activity Recognition
This paper presents Listen Learner, an end-to-end system for acoustic activity recognition that automatically discovers and learns to classify environmental sounds with minimal user effort. Traditional approaches to sound recognition face a tradeoff:…
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Web Standards to Enable an Accessible and Inclusive Internet of Things (IoT)
Written by three W3C staff members, this paper argues that the Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to disproportionately benefit people with disabilities — but only if accessibility is built in from the start. The authors examine IoT across th…
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Technology, Education and Access: A "Fair Go" for People with Disabilities
This keynote is a personal narrative by Dr. Scott Hollier, a digital access specialist diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa at age five, tracing how technology and education have shaped his life and career in accessibility. Hollier frames the talk aro…
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Internet of Things (IoT) as Assistive Technology: Potential Applications in Tertiary Education
This short paper explores how consumer Internet of Things (IoT) devices could serve as assistive technology for students with disabilities in tertiary education, based on qualitative interviews with five students representing hearing, mobility, print…
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Home Automation for an Independent Living: Investigating the Needs of Visually Impaired People
This paper investigates the habits, expectations, and unmet needs of visually impaired people regarding home automation and remote control systems through an online survey of 42 participants (32 totally blind, 10 low vision; ages 18-70+; 64.3% male) …
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A TensorFlow-based Assistive Technology System for Users with Visual Impairments
This extended abstract presents a wearable computer vision system that uses deep learning to classify objects in a blind user’s surroundings and provide audio descriptions via text-to-speech. The system addresses a limitation of smartphone-based obje…
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Synesthesia Vision integration with Recife's Public Transport
This demonstration paper presents Synesthesia Vision, a two-component assistive technology system for blind people in Recife, Brazil, and its integration with the metropolitan public transport monitoring system. The system consists of sensory glasses…
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Sense and Accessibility: Understanding People with Physical Disabilities' Experiences with Sensing Systems
This paper examines how sensing systems — the increasingly pervasive technologies that mediate our interactions with the digital and physical world — create accessibility barriers for people with physical disabilities. Through an online survey of 40 …