Literature Reviews

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

• Design Goals for a System for Enhancing AAC with Personalized Video

  Katie O'Leary, Charles Delahunt, Patricia Dowden, Ivan Darmansya, Jiaqi Heng, Eve A. Riskin, Richard E. Ladner, Jacob O. Wobbrock (2012) — Proceedings of the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '12)

  This demonstration paper presents Vid2Speech, a prototype tablet-based augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) system designed for children with complex communication needs (CCN). The system addresses a fundamental limitation of existing AAC…

  • augmentative and alternative communication
  • complex communication needs
  • personalized video
  • action words
  • tablet-based AAC
  • children with disabilities
  • speech-generating devices

• Using Participatory Design with Proxies with Children with Limited Communication

  Foad Hamidi, Melanie Baljko, Isabel Gómez (2017) — Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '17)

  This paper explores the use of Participatory Design with Proxies (PDwP) as a methodology for including children with severe communication limitations in the design of digital technologies. PDwP is a variation of participatory design where people fami…

  • participatory design
  • children with disabilities
  • communication accessibility
  • augmentative and alternative communication
  • design methodology
  • autism spectrum disorder
  • cerebral palsy
  • speech delay