Literature Reviews

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

• Chorus: A Crowd-Powered Conversational Assistant

  Walter S. Lasecki, Rachel Wesley, Jeffrey Nichols, Anand Kulkarni, James F. Allen, Jeffrey P. Bigham (2013) — UIST '13: Proceedings of the 26th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

  This paper presents Chorus, a crowd-powered conversational assistant that enables users to hold natural, continuous conversations with what appears to be a single partner, but is actually backed by multiple crowd workers operating in real-time. The s…

  • crowdsourcing
  • conversational assistants
  • human computation
  • dialog systems
  • real-time systems
  • situational disability

• Dialog Generation for Voice Browsing

  Zan Sun, Amanda Stent, I. V. Ramakrishnan (2006) — Proceedings of the 2006 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A): Building the Mobile Web: Rediscovering Accessibility?

  This paper presents HearSay, a voice browser system developed at Stony Brook University that provides speech-driven web access for people with visual disabilities. Unlike conventional screen readers that force users to arrow through a linearized, sin…

  • voice browsing
  • screen readers
  • visual impairment
  • web page segmentation
  • content summarization
  • machine learning
  • VoiceXML
  • dialog systems
  • assistive technology

• Wizard-of-Oz evaluation of speech-driven web browsing interface for people with vision impairments

  Vikas Ashok, Yevgen Borodin, Svetlana Stoyanchev, Yuri Puzis, I. V. Ramakrishnan (2014) — Proceedings of the 11th Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper presents a Wizard-of-Oz study with 24 blind participants to evaluate the usability and effectiveness of speech-driven web browsing as an alternative to traditional keyboard-based screen reader interaction. The study was motivated by three …

  • blindness
  • screen readers
  • speech interface
  • voice interface
  • web navigation
  • web automation
  • wizard of Oz
  • dialog systems