Literature Reviews

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

• Effect of Sign-recognition Performance on the Usability of Sign-language Dictionary Search

  Saad Hassan, Oliver Alonzo, Abraham Glasser, Matt Huenerfauth (2021) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper investigates how the performance of sign-language recognition technology affects user satisfaction with ASL dictionary search systems. Unlike written languages where users can type unfamiliar words to look them up, ASL learners who encount…

  • American Sign Language
  • ASL
  • sign language recognition
  • dictionary search
  • information retrieval
  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • usability
  • search interfaces
  • computer vision

• Support in the Moment: Benefits and use of video-span selection and search for sign-language video comprehension among ASL learners

  Saad Hassan, Akhter Al Amin, Caluã de Lacerda Pataca, Diego Navarro, Alexis Gordon, Sooyeon Lee, Matt Huenerfauth (2022) — Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '22)

  This paper investigates technology to support American Sign Language (ASL) learners in comprehending challenging sign-language videos by enabling in-context dictionary lookup. The researchers conducted two studies at Rochester Institute of Technology…

  • sign language
  • American Sign Language
  • ASL
  • video comprehension
  • dictionary search
  • sign language learning
  • Wizard-of-Oz
  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • educational technology