Literature Reviews

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

• Follow That Sound: Using Sonification and Corrective Verbal Feedback to Teach Touchscreen Gestures

  Uran Oh, Shaun K. Kane, Leah Findlater (2013) — Proceedings of the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '13)

  This paper proposes and evaluates two techniques for teaching touchscreen gestures to users with visual impairments: gesture sonification (mapping finger position to audio using pitch for the y-axis and stereo panning for the x-axis) and corrective v…

  • touchscreen accessibility
  • sonification
  • gesture learning
  • blind users
  • visual impairment
  • mobile accessibility
  • audio feedback
  • text-to-speech
  • VoiceOver
  • gesture recognition

• Audio-Based Feedback Techniques for Teaching Touchscreen Gestures

  Uran Oh, Stacy Branham, Leah Findlater, Shaun K. Kane (2015) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

  This paper proposes and evaluates two complementary audio-based techniques for teaching touchscreen gestures to blind and low-vision users: gesture sonification (mapping finger position to pitch and stereo panning to create an audio representation of…

  • visual impairment
  • touchscreen
  • gesture learning
  • sonification
  • audio feedback
  • mobile accessibility
  • eyes-free interaction