Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
5 results found tagged accessible transportation.
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Opinions and Preferences of Blind and Low Vision Consumers Regarding Self-Driving Vehicles: Results of Focus Group Discussions
This paper explores the opinions, concerns, and preferences of 38 blind and low vision participants regarding self-driving vehicle technology through eight focus group sessions conducted over two days in north central Florida. Participants had a mean…
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Understanding the Power of Control in Autonomous Vehicles for People with Vision Impairment
This University of Michigan study investigates how people with vision impairments perceive control in semi-autonomous versus fully autonomous vehicles, a distinction previous research had not explored. The researchers conducted design-based focus gro…
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Getting mobile with mobile devices: using the web to improve transit accessibility
This paper proposes a mobile web-based architecture for making public transit accessible to blind and visually impaired travelers. Drawing on direct feedback from the blind community (including one of the authors, who is visually impaired), the paper…
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Am I Too Old to Drive? Opinions of Older Adults on Self-Driving Vehicles
This paper explores the opinions, preferences, and concerns of 39 older African American adults (aged 57-91, mean 74) regarding fully autonomous (Level 5) self-driving vehicles through seven focus group sessions conducted over five days in South Caro…
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It's Enactment Time!: High-fidelity Enactment Stage for Accessible Automated Driving System Technology Research
This pictorial paper documents the iterative design and construction of a high-fidelity enactment stage for researching accessible autonomous vehicle (AV) technology with older adults and people with disabilities. Autonomous vehicles hold transformat…