Literature Reviews

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

3 results found tagged hands-free.

VoiceDraw: a hands-free voice-driven drawing application for people with motor impairments

Susumu Harada, Jacob O. Wobbrock, James A. Landay (2007) — Proceedings of the 9th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '07)

Harada, Wobbrock, and Landay's Assets '07 paper introduces VoiceDraw, a hands-free digital painting application for people with severe motor impairments that uses *non-speech* vocalisations — continuously-held vowel sounds and short consonant clicks …
Alternative Text Entry Using Different Input Methods

Torsten Felzer, Rainer Nordmann (2006) — Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '06)

This paper presents the HaMCoS (Hands-free Mouse Control System) framework and its text entry applications, designed for people who cannot use their hands to operate a keyboard. HaMCoS works by detecting intentional muscle contractions — specifically…
Exploring Aural Navigation by Screenless Access

Mikaylah Gross, Joe Dara, Christopher Meyer, Davide Bolchini (2018) — Proceedings of the 15th International Web for All Conference (W4A 2018)

This paper introduces screenless access, a paradigm for browsing aural information architectures using one-handed, in-air gestures recognised by an off-the-shelf Myo armband, freeing blind and visually impaired users from the constraint of holding an…