Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
14 results found tagged affective computing.
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Touching a Cat Without Touch: Does Mid-Air Ultrasound Haptic Feedback Promote Relaxation in Virtual Cat Interaction?
Hosoi and colleagues investigate whether mid-air ultrasound haptics — tactile sensations produced by focused acoustic radiation pressure, with no device worn on the user's skin — can convey the feel of a virtual cat convincingly enough to support rel…
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Harmonizing the Senses: Designing a Cross-Modal Interactive Art System to Enhance Older Adults' Affective Experiences
This CHI 2026 paper investigates how cross-modal correspondence and congruency across visual, auditory, and kinetic modalities shape older adults' affective experiences in digital art systems, and how an AI-infused drawing mode can scaffold those exp…
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Affective Wearable Haptic Interventions: A Systematic Literature Review
This systematic literature review synthesises 83 empirical studies on affective wearable haptic interventions published between 2010 and 2025, drawn from 1,098 articles identified in ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore. The review maps the design spa…
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Visualization of Speech Prosody and Emotion in Captions: Accessibility for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Users
This CHI 2023 paper tackles a dimension of captioning that has gone largely unaddressed for four decades: captions depict words but strip out the prosody and emotion carried by a speaker's voice. The authors argue that while automatic speech recognit…
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Fuzzy Feelings: Arousal's Interpretive Noise and the Case for Acoustic-Based Haptics
This CHI 2026 paper from a team at Rochester Institute of Technology and Birmingham City University tackles a persistent gap in captioning: traditional captions carry words but strip the emotional tone, rhythm, and vocal affect that sighted hearing v…
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Determining the Impact of Computer Frustration on the Mood of Blind Users Browsing the Web
This paper from Towson University's Universal Usability Laboratory examines how computer frustration affects the mood of 100 blind web users — the first study to investigate the emotional impact of frustrating computing experiences specifically for u…
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Analysis of Speech Properties of Neurotypicals and Individuals Diagnosed with Autism and Down Syndrome
This MIT Media Lab study systematically compares speech properties across three groups — neurotypicals (NT), individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and individuals with Down syndrome (DS) — using 100 minutes of audio data from 10 natural on…
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Technology for Just-in-Time In-Situ Learning of Facial Affect for Persons Diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder
This MIT Media Lab paper presents a wearable technology system designed to help adolescents with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) learn to recognize and interpret facial expressions during real-time social interactions with their everyday companions. …
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Talking Points: The Differential Impact of Real-Time Computer Generated Audio/Visual Feedback on Speech-Like & Non-Speech-Like Vocalizations in Low Functioning Children with ASD
This paper examines whether real-time computer feedback systems (CFS) can differentially impact speech-like versus non-speech-like vocalizations in low-functioning children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The distinction matters because the goal of sp…
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iSET: Enabling In Situ & Post Hoc Video Labeling
This demonstration paper presents the interactive Social-Emotional Toolkit (iSET), a portable video recording and annotation system designed to support behavioral interventions for people with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). People with ASD frequent…