Literature Reviews

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

• Caption Royale: Exploring the Design Space of Affective Captions from the Perspective of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Individuals

  Caluã de Lacerda Pataca, Saad Hassan, Nathan Tinker, Roshan Lalintha Peiris, Matt Huenerfauth (2024) — CHI '24: Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

  This CHI 2024 paper from Rochester Institute of Technology and Tulane tackles a concrete design question: if we want captions to convey a speaker's emotion — not just their words — which typographic modulations should we use? Prior work had establish…

  • captioning
  • affective captions
  • expressive captions
  • typography
  • valence
  • arousal
  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • DHH
  • circumplex model
  • variable fonts
  • best-worst scaling
  • accessibility design

• Fuzzy Feelings: Arousal's Interpretive Noise and the Case for Acoustic-Based Haptics

  Caluã de Lacerda Pataca, Stephanie Patterson, Roshan L Peiris, Matt Huenerfauth (2026) — CHI '26: Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

  This CHI 2026 paper from a team at Rochester Institute of Technology and Birmingham City University tackles a persistent gap in captioning: traditional captions carry words but strip the emotional tone, rhythm, and vocal affect that sighted hearing v…

  • captioning
  • expressive captions
  • haptic feedback
  • vibrotactile
  • affective computing
  • speech emotion recognition
  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • DHH
  • arousal
  • valence
  • multimodal accessibility
  • prosody