Literature Reviews

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

• Accuracy and Frequency Analysis of MultiTouch Interfaces for Individuals with Parkinsonian and Essential Hand Tremor

  Eric J. Frett, Kenneth E. Barner (2005) — Proceedings of the 7th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '05)

  This 2005 study from the University of Delaware compares four computer pointing devices — an optical mouse, optical trackball, isotonic joystick, and a FingerWorks MultiTouch Surface (MTS) — for users with Parkinsonian tremor and essential tremor. Th…

  • motor accessibility
  • input devices
  • Parkinson's disease
  • essential tremor
  • multitouch
  • pointing devices
  • tremor suppression
  • Fitts' law
  • human-computer interaction

• Who Should Have Access to my Pointing Data? Privacy Tradeoffs of Adaptive Assistive Technologies

  Foad Hamidi, Kellie Poneres, Aaron Massey, Amy Hurst (2018) — Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2018)

  This UMBC study examines the often-overlooked privacy tradeoffs inherent in Adaptive Assistive Technologies (AATs) — software systems that monitor user performance data to automatically adapt their functionality. While AATs offer significant usabilit…

  • privacy
  • security
  • adaptive systems
  • assistive technology
  • essential tremor
  • older adults
  • pointing
  • motor impairment
  • threat modeling
  • ethics

• Using a participatory activities toolkit to elicit privacy expectations of adaptive assistive technologies

  Foad Hamidi, Kellie Poneres, Aaron Massey, Amy Hurst (2020) — Proceedings of the 17th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper addresses a critical but often overlooked tension in assistive technology design: the privacy tradeoff inherent in adaptive assistive technologies (AATs) that must collect and analyze user performance data to function effectively. The auth…

  • privacy
  • assistive technology
  • adaptive systems
  • participatory design
  • essential tremor
  • older adults
  • data ethics