Literature Reviews

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

116 results found tagged crowdsourcing.

Transforming Japanese Archives into Accessible Digital Books

Tatsuya Ishihara, Toshinari Itoko, Daisuke Sato, Asaf Tzadok, Hironobu Takagi (2012) — JCDL '12: Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

This JCDL 2012 paper from IBM Research Tokyo and Haifa tackles a problem that remained invisible in most English-focused digitisation work: producing fully accessible digital books from Japanese archives, where the writing system uses more than 10,00…
- accessible ebooks
- digitization
- japanese
- OCR
- DAISY
- EPUB
- crowdsourcing
- print disability
- structural metadata
- ALTO
- kanji
- national libraries
Motivating Multi-Generational Crowd Workers in Social-Purpose Work

Masatomo Kobayashi, Shoma Arita, Toshinari Itoko, Shin Saito, Hironobu Takagi (2015) — CSCW '15: Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing

This CSCW 2015 paper from IBM Research Tokyo and the University of Tokyo investigates how to sustain a volunteer community in 'social-purpose crowdsourcing' — crowd work with altruistic goals such as supporting libraries or producing materials for pe…
Mosaic: Collaborative Ways for Older Adults to Use Their Expertise through Information Technologies

Atsushi Hiyama, Masatomo Kobayashi, Hironobu Takagi, Michitaka Hirose (2014) — ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing, Issue 110

This SIGACCESS Newsletter article from IBM Research Tokyo and the University of Tokyo argues that accessibility research for older adults has focused too narrowly on healthcare and assistive tools that compensate for declining abilities, and proposes…
Accessibility Commons: A Metadata Repository for Web Accessibility

Shinya Kawanaka, Masatomo Kobayashi, Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa (2009) — ACM SIGWEB Newsletter, Summer 2009

This short SIGWEB Newsletter article proposes Accessibility Commons (AC), a shared federated repository for externally authored web-accessibility metadata. The authors argue that accessibility cannot scale as long as fixes depend on the original site…
Pedestrian Detection with Wearable Cameras for the Blind: A Two-way Perspective

Kyungjun Lee, Daisuke Sato, Saki Asakawa, Hernisa Kacorri, Chieko Asakawa (2020) — Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Wearable cameras — embedded in commercial products like OrCam, Aira, and eSight — promise blind users equitable access to visual information about the people around them: who is approaching, where they are looking, whether eye contact is possible. Bu…
Feedback-based evaluation tool for web accessibility

Daisuke Asai, Masahiro Watanabe, Yoko Asano (2007) — Proceedings of the 9th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '07)

This short Assets '07 demonstration paper from NTT Cyber Solutions Laboratories proposes a feedback-driven approach to improving automated web-accessibility evaluation tools. The authors frame the familiar problem that automated checkers such as Bobb…
Annotation-Based Transcoding for Nonvisual Web Access

Chieko Asakawa, Hironobu Takagi (2000) — Proceedings of the Fourth International ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '00)

This companion paper to the same authors' transcoding proxy paper (also at Assets '00) provides a detailed technical description of the annotation-based component of their IBM Japan transcoding system. The core problem addressed is that modern web pa…
Social Accessibility: Achieving Accessibility through Collaborative Metadata Authoring

Hironobu Takagi, Shinya Kawanaka, Masatomo Kobayashi, Takashi Itoh, Chieko Asakawa (2008) — Proceedings of the 10th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '08)

This IBM Research Tokyo paper proposes Social Accessibility, a system that applies social computing principles to web accessibility by enabling a worldwide community of volunteers to collaboratively create external accessibility metadata for inaccess…
RouteCheckr: Personalized Multicriteria Routing for Mobility Impaired Pedestrians

Thorsten Völkel, Gerhard Weber (2008) — Proceedings of the 10th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '08)

This paper presents RouteCheckr, a client/server system for personalised pedestrian navigation that calculates routes optimised for multiple criteria relevant to mobility impaired users. The authors identify three key shortcomings of existing navigat…
Collaborative Web Accessibility Improvement: Challenges and Possibilities

Hironobu Takagi, Shinya Kawanaka, Masatomo Kobayashi, Daisuke Sato, Chieko Asakawa (2009) — Proceedings of the 11th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '09)

This paper reports on the Social Accessibility Project, an experimental service developed by IBM Research in Tokyo that uses collaborative metadata authoring to improve web accessibility. The system works through a three-part architecture: end users …