Literature Reviews

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

• A Tool to Promote Prolonged Engagement in Art Therapy: Design and Development from Arts Therapist Requirements

  Jesse Hoey, Krists Zutis, Valerie Leuty, Alex Mihailidis (2010) — Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)

  This paper describes the design and evaluation of a customisable touch-screen tool that assists creative arts therapists working with older adults with dementia. The system uses a partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) controller to aut…

  • dementia
  • art therapy
  • computer vision
  • adaptive systems
  • user modeling
  • engagement detection
  • touchscreen interface
  • older adults
  • creative arts therapy

• Design of a Physiology-based Adaptive Virtual Reality Driving Platform for Individuals with ASD

  Dayi Bian, Joshua W. Wade, Lian Zhang, Amy Swanson, Medda Sarkar, Zachary Warren, Nilanjan Sarkar (2019) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper presents VDEAR (VR-based Driving Environment with Adaptive Response), a novel closed-loop virtual reality driving simulator designed specifically for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The system addresses a critical gap in d…

  • autism spectrum disorder
  • virtual reality
  • driving simulation
  • physiological computing
  • dynamic difficulty adjustment
  • affective computing
  • engagement detection
  • adaptive systems