Literature Reviews

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

• Tactile Emotions: Multimodal Affective Captioning with Haptics Improves Narrative Engagement for d/Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Viewers

  Caluã de Lacerda Pataca, Saad Hassan, Lloyd May, Michelle M Olson, Toni D'aurio, Roshan L Peiris, Matt Huenerfauth (2025) — Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25)

  This paper explores a multimodal approach to affective captioning — captions that convey not just the words a speaker says but the emotional dimensions of their voice — for d/Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (dhh) viewers. Prior work has shown that typograph…

  • affective captioning
  • haptics
  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • multimodal interaction
  • captions
  • narrative engagement
  • accessibility research
  • wearable technology
  • typography
  • emotion

• ChatWoz: Chatting through a Wizard of Oz

  Pedro Fialho, Luísa Coheur (2015) — ASSETS '15: Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility

  ChatWoz is a Wizard of Oz system designed to enable autistic children to interact with caregivers through a virtual avatar. The system was motivated by widely reported cases of autistic children enthusiastically engaging with commercial virtual assis…

  • autism
  • Wizard of Oz
  • virtual agent
  • dialogue systems
  • child-caregiver interaction
  • text-to-speech
  • emotion
  • avatar
  • AAC