Literature Reviews

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

• The Intelligent Voice-Interactive Interface

  Christopher Schmandt, Eric A. Hulteen (1982) — Proceedings of the 1982 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '82)

  Schmandt and Hulteen describe the 'Put That There' system built at MIT's Architecture Machine Group (the precursor to the Media Lab), one of the earliest working implementations of a conversational, multimodal human–computer interface. Seated in a ch…

  • speech recognition
  • voice interface
  • multimodal interaction
  • gesture recognition
  • historical
  • natural language interface
  • redundant input
  • accessible input

• Wearable Interactions for Users with Motor Impairments: Systematic Review, Inventory, and Research Implications

  Alexandru-Ionut Siean, Radu-Daniel Vatavu (2021) — The 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2021)

  This paper presents the first systematic literature review focused specifically on wearable interactions for users with motor impairments. The authors conducted a meta-analysis of 57 peer-reviewed scientific articles identified through searches of th…

  • motor impairments
  • wearable technology
  • systematic literature review
  • gesture interaction
  • smartwatches
  • smartglasses
  • head-mounted displays
  • accessible input
  • fitness trackers