Literature Reviews

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

• VoiceDraw: a hands-free voice-driven drawing application for people with motor impairments

  Susumu Harada, Jacob O. Wobbrock, James A. Landay (2007) — Proceedings of the 9th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '07)

  Harada, Wobbrock, and Landay's Assets '07 paper introduces VoiceDraw, a hands-free digital painting application for people with severe motor impairments that uses *non-speech* vocalisations — continuously-held vowel sounds and short consonant clicks …

  • motor accessibility
  • voice interface
  • non-speech vocalisation
  • speech recognition
  • vocal joystick
  • hands-free
  • creative accessibility
  • direct manipulation
  • spinal cord injury
  • user-centred design

• Multimodal Feedback: Establishing a Performance Baseline for Improved Access by Individuals with Visual Impairments

  Holly S. Vitense, Julie A. Jacko, V. Kathlene Emery (2002) — Proceedings of the Fifth International ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets 02)

  This study investigates how different combinations of auditory, haptic, and visual feedback affect the performance of fully sighted users during a complex direct manipulation task. The researchers designed the study as a baseline from which to later …

  • multimodal interaction
  • haptic feedback
  • auditory feedback
  • visual impairment
  • workload measurement
  • pupillometry
  • direct manipulation
  • assistive technology

• Conversational Gestures for Direct Manipulation on the Audio Desktop

  T. V. Raman (1998) — Proceedings of the Third International ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '98)

  This paper by T. V. Raman of Adobe Systems' Advanced Technology Group presents a systematic methodology for designing auditory interfaces by decomposing visual interaction into "conversational gestures" — the atomic building blocks of human-computer …

  • auditory interface
  • audio desktop
  • speech-enabling
  • conversational gestures
  • direct manipulation
  • non-visual interaction
  • blind users
  • Emacspeak
  • auditory icons
  • game accessibility