Literature Reviews

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

• Investigating the Appropriateness of Social Network Question Asking as a Resource for Blind Users

  Erin L. Brady, Yu Zhong, Meredith Ringel Morris, Jeffrey P. Bigham (2013) — Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2013)

  This paper explores whether social networking sites (SNSs) are a viable alternative to paid crowdsourcing for answering blind users' visual questions. The research combines three methods: a survey of 191 blind adults about their social networking hab…

  • social media accessibility
  • blind users
  • crowdsourcing
  • friendsourcing
  • visual question answering
  • social costs

• Gauging Receptiveness to Social Microvolunteering

  Erin Brady, Meredith Ringel Morris, Jeffrey P. Bigham (2015) — CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

  This paper introduces the concept of social microvolunteering — a hybrid of friendsourcing and microvolunteering where volunteers install an application that posts microtasks to their social media feeds, enabling their friends to contribute to causes…

  • crowdsourcing
  • microvolunteering
  • friendsourcing
  • social media
  • visual impairment
  • blindness
  • VizWiz
  • accessibility

• Friendsourcing the Unmet Needs of People with Dementia

  João Martins, José Carilho, Oliver Schnell, Carlos Duarte, Francisco M. Couto, Luís Carriço, Tiago Guerreiro (2014) — Proceedings of the 11th Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper presents a system that combines automatic smartphone-based lifelogging with friendsourcing — a form of crowdsourcing limited to a trusted social network — to create a cognitive prosthesis for people with dementia (PwD). With an estimated 3…

  • dementia
  • cognitive prosthesis
  • friendsourcing
  • crowdsourcing
  • reminiscence therapy
  • caregiver support
  • social networks
  • mobile accessibility
  • lifelogging
  • aging