Literature Reviews

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

• Airport Accessibility and Navigation Assistance for People with Visual Impairments

  João Guerreiro, Dragan Ahmetovic, Daisuke Sato, Kris Kitani, Chieko Asakawa (2019) — Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

  This paper investigates whether a BLE-beacon-based smartphone navigation system can enable visually impaired travelers to move through an airport independently — a setting where they are currently required to rely on airline-provided sighted escorts …

  • airport accessibility
  • blind navigation
  • indoor navigation
  • orientation and mobility
  • visual impairment
  • blindness
  • assistive technology
  • Bluetooth Low Energy
  • beacons
  • wayfinding
  • mobile accessibility
  • independent travel

• Dude, Where's My Luggage? An Autoethnographic Account of Airport Navigation by a Traveler with Residual Vision

  Cameron Tyler Cassidy, Stacy Marie Branham (2024) — ASSETS '24: Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper presents an autoethnographic study of airport navigation by a legally blind traveler with residual vision, conducted across eight round-trips through six U.S. airports. The first author, Cameron, who has Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy r…

  • visual impairment
  • low vision
  • residual vision
  • indoor navigation
  • wayfinding
  • airport accessibility
  • autoethnography
  • assistive technology