Literature Reviews

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

• Do You Hear What I Hear: The Balancing Act of Designing an Electronic Hockey Puck for Playing Hockey Non-Visually

  Tristan Cooper, Lauren Milne, Abhinav Shripad, Gayla Bassham (2022) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This research investigates the design requirements for an electronic hockey puck that enables blind and visually impaired players to locate and track the puck through sound. Blind hockey currently uses a league-standard puck (LSP) containing ball bea…

  • blind sports
  • auditory feedback
  • sound localization
  • assistive sports equipment
  • accessible design
  • blind hockey

• Beyond Adaptive Sports: Challenges & Opportunities to Improve Accessibility and Analytics

  Rushil Khurana, Ashley Wang, Patrick Carrington (2021) — ASSETS '21: The 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  While sports data analytics has become a multi-billion dollar industry transforming training, strategy, and refereeing in able-bodied sports, adaptive sports have been largely left behind by this technological revolution. Khurana et al. interviewed 1…

  • adaptive sports
  • Paralympic
  • wheelchair sports
  • blind sports
  • sports analytics
  • wearable technology
  • assistive technology
  • physical activity