Literature Reviews

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

• Haptic comparison of size (relative magnitude) in blind and sighted people

  Sarah A. Douglas, Shasta Willson (2007) — Proceedings of the 9th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '07)

  Douglas and Willson's Assets '07 paper is a controlled psychophysical study of how blind and sighted users compare relative magnitude using a PHANToM force-feedback device — the workhorse haptic input-output device of the era. The motivating problem …

  • haptics
  • visual impairment
  • blindness
  • multimodal
  • psychophysics
  • force feedback
  • vibration
  • sonification
  • accessibility evaluation
  • data visualisation

• Data visualisation and data mining technology for supporting care for older people

  Nubia M. Gil, Nicolas A. Hine, John L. Arnott, Julienne Hanson, Richard G. Curry, Telmo Amaral, Dorota Osipovič (2007) — Proceedings of the 9th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '07)

  This Assets '07 paper from a UK consortium (Dundee, UCL, Imperial College) reports on a telecare pilot study that instrumented the flats of older residents with a modest set of unobtrusive sensors — passive infrared motion detectors, pressure sensors…

  • aging
  • older adults
  • independent living
  • telecare
  • ambient sensing
  • data mining
  • data visualisation
  • activities of daily living
  • lifestyle modelling
  • privacy
  • home-based care
  • smart home