Literature Reviews

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

• Shared Privacy Concerns of the Visually Impaired and Sighted Bystanders with Camera-Based Assistive Technologies

  Taslima Akter, Tousif Ahmed, Apu Kapadia, Manohar Swaminathan (2022) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper investigates the privacy and ethical concerns surrounding camera-based assistive technologies (like smart glasses) from two perspectives: people with visual impairments (PVIs) as technology wearers and sighted people as bystanders who migh…

  • privacy
  • visual impairment
  • camera-based assistive technology
  • AI ethics
  • algorithmic bias
  • smart glasses
  • augmented reality
  • bystander privacy
  • facial recognition

• "Is Someone There? Do They Have a Gun": How Visual Information about Others Can Improve Personal Safety Management for Blind Individuals

  Stacy M. Branham, Ali Abdolrahmani, William Easley, Morgan Scheuerman, Erick Ronquillo, Amy Hurst (2017) — Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '17)

  This paper investigates an underexplored dimension of accessibility for people who are blind: the need for visual information about other people to manage personal physical safety. While decades of assistive technology research have focused on helpin…

  • blindness
  • personal safety
  • facial recognition
  • assistive technology
  • navigation
  • computer vision
  • interpersonal safety
  • law enforcement
  • violence