Literature Reviews

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

• CHIMELIGHT: Augmenting Instruments in Interactive Music Therapy for Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders

  Joana Lobo, Soichiro Matsuda, Izumi Futamata, Ryoichi Sakuta, Kenji Suzuki (2019) — Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This paper presents CHIMELIGHT, an IoT-based system that augments handchime musical instruments with real-time visual feedback to support music therapists working with children who have neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) including autism spectrum di…

  • music therapy
  • neurodevelopmental disorder
  • autism spectrum disorder
  • ADHD
  • children
  • IoT
  • assistive technology
  • visual feedback
  • behavior modification
  • social playware
  • applied behavior analysis

• Encouraging Speech and Vocalization in Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder

  Joshua Hailpern (2007) — SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing

  This paper reviews existing HCI research on autism spectrum disorder and proposes a new direction: using technology to encourage speech and vocalization in children with ASD who have not acquired spoken language. The author identifies a gap in the fi…

  • autism spectrum disorder
  • speech disorder
  • vocalization
  • visual feedback
  • auditory feedback
  • augmentative and alternative communication
  • applied behavior analysis
  • social robot