Literature Reviews

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

• Learning and Perceiving Colors Haptically

  Kanav Kahol, Jamieson French, Laura Bratton, Sethuraman Panchanathan (2006) — Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '06)

  This paper presents a novel system for enabling blind individuals to learn, perceive, and compare colours through haptic (touch-based) feedback. Colour is a purely visual feature that cannot be perceived through auditory or olfactory senses, yet it p…

  • visual impairment
  • haptic interface
  • colour perception
  • sensory substitution
  • assistive technology
  • congenital blindness
  • tactile display
  • colour blindness

• Sensory Substitution Training for Users Who Are Blind with Dynamic Stimuli, Games and Virtual Environments

  Shachar Maidenbaum (2015) — ASSETS '15: Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility

  This paper explores whether gamification and dynamic training can address one of the major barriers to sensory substitution device (SSD) adoption: the long, arduous learning process. SSDs like EyeMusic convert visual information into sound, enabling …

  • sensory substitution
  • blindness
  • congenital blindness
  • visual rehabilitation
  • gamification
  • training
  • auditory interface
  • EyeMusic
  • virtual environments
  • game accessibility