Literature Reviews

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

• Autonomous Navigation through the City for the Blind

  Jaime Sánchez, Natalia de la Torre (2010) — Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)

  This paper presents a study on the use of an audio-based GPS navigation application designed to help blind people navigate independently through urban environments. The software, developed for PocketPC devices with Bluetooth GPS receivers, uses a clo…

  • blind navigation
  • GPS
  • orientation and mobility
  • mobile technology
  • assistive technology
  • audio navigation
  • urban accessibility
  • text-to-speech

• Assessment of Semantic Taxonomies for Blind Indoor Navigation Based on a Shopping Center Use Case

  J. Eduardo Pérez, Myriam Arrue, Masatomo Kobayashi, Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa (2017) — Proceedings of the 14th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper investigates what environmental information is needed to support effective indoor navigation for visually impaired people, and whether existing geographic data specifications provide adequate semantic vocabularies for this purpose. The res…

  • indoor navigation
  • blindness
  • wayfinding
  • location-based services
  • semantic taxonomy
  • assistive technology
  • audio navigation

• Uncovering Visually Impaired Gamers' Preferences for Spatial Awareness Tools Within Video Games

  Vishnu Nair, Shao-en Ma, Ricardo E. Gonzalez Penuela, Yicheng He, Karen Lin, Mason Hayes, Hannah Huddleston, Matthew Donnelly, Brian A. Smith (2022) — Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '22)

  This paper investigates how visually impaired players (VIPs) gain spatial awareness within 3D video games by comparing four leading spatial awareness tool (SAT) approaches. The researchers built Dungeon Escape, a 3D third-person adventure game using …

  • game accessibility
  • visual impairment
  • blindness
  • spatial awareness
  • audio navigation
  • 3D audio
  • sonification
  • echolocation
  • tactile map
  • user study