Literature Reviews

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

• SymbolPath: A Continuous Motion Overlay Module for Icon-Based Assistive Communication

  Karl Wiegand, Rupal Patel (2012) — Proceedings of the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2012)

  This demonstration paper introduces SymbolPath, an overlay module designed to improve the speed and ease of message formulation in icon-based augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems. Traditional icon-based AAC devices require users t…

  • augmentative and alternative communication
  • AAC
  • motor impairment
  • speech impairment
  • icon-based communication
  • continuous motion input
  • text-to-speech
  • natural language processing
  • touch screen

• DigitCHAT: Enabling AAC Input at Conversational Speed

  Karl Wiegand, Rupal Patel (2014) — Proceedings of the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility (ASSETS 2014)

  This paper presents DigitCHAT, a prototype augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) system designed for literate users with mild upper limb motor impairments who need fast, expressive face-to-face communication on mobile phones. The authors i…

  • augmentative and alternative communication
  • AAC
  • text entry
  • mobile accessibility
  • motor impairments
  • continuous motion input
  • speech impairments
  • conversational interaction