Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
9 results found tagged hands-free interaction.
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Mnemonic Tracing: Using Eye Gaze to Search for Visual Memories
Mnemonic Tracing is a non-verbal image-retrieval interaction in which a user, wearing eye-tracking glasses, deliberately retraces the contents of a remembered image with their gaze on a blank surface. The paper builds on gaze-reinstatement research, …
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Beyond Accuracy: Auditing Allocative Harms in Facial-Gesture Recognition for People with Motor Impairments
This paper challenges the conventional framing of facial-gesture recognition accuracy as a purely technical property, and reframes it as a sensorimotor alignment problem between user intention and algorithmic interpretation. The authors conducted a m…
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Consolidating computer operation and wheelchair control
This short ASSETS 2007 demo proposal from Torsten Felzer and Rainer Nordmann at Darmstadt University of Technology describes the integration of two previously separate assistive systems they had built for people with severe physical disabilities. The…
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HaWCoS: The "Hands-free" Wheelchair Control System
This paper introduces HaWCoS (Hands-free Wheelchair Control System), a system that enables people with severe physical disabilities to control an electrically powered wheelchair using muscle contractions from any single muscle group in their body, wi…
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Breath Mobile: A Software-Based Hands-Free and Voice-Free Breathing Controlled Mobile Phone Interface
This short paper proposes Breath Mobile, a software-only breathing interface for mobile phones that uses the device's built-in microphone to detect puffing patterns and translate them into navigation and selection events. Unlike traditional sip-and-p…
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StepWrite: Adaptive Planning for Speech-Driven Text Generation
This paper introduces StepWrite, an LLM-powered voice-based writing system that enables structured, hands-free and eyes-free composition of longer-form texts. While speech-to-text tools handle short dictation well, composing structured emails or deta…
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Handsfree for Web: A Google Chrome extension to browse the web via voice commands
This demonstration paper presents Handsfree for Web, a free Google Chrome browser extension that enables users to browse the web entirely through voice commands. The tool addresses a fundamental accessibility barrier: nearly all websites require manu…
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A Recipe for Success? Exploring Strategies for Improving Non-Visual Access to Cooking Instructions
This paper investigates how people with vision impairments access and follow cooking recipes, identifying practices, challenges, and design opportunities for more accessible kitchen technologies. The researchers conducted semi-structured interviews w…
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Making Emergency Calls More Accessible to Older Adults Through a Hands-free Speech Interface in the House
This paper presents CirdoX, a hands-free voice user interface system designed to detect emergency calls for help from older adults living alone at home. Wearable personal emergency response (PER) systems — typically pendant buttons worn on the neck o…