Literature Reviews

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

• The Intelligent Voice-Interactive Interface

  Christopher Schmandt, Eric A. Hulteen (1982) — Proceedings of the 1982 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '82)

  Schmandt and Hulteen describe the 'Put That There' system built at MIT's Architecture Machine Group (the precursor to the Media Lab), one of the earliest working implementations of a conversational, multimodal human–computer interface. Seated in a ch…

  • speech recognition
  • voice interface
  • multimodal interaction
  • gesture recognition
  • historical
  • natural language interface
  • redundant input
  • accessible input

• Presenting Information in Sound

  Sara Bly (1982) — Proceedings of the 1982 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '82)

  Sara Bly's 1982 CHI paper, written at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is one of the earliest systematic investigations of using computer-generated sound — rather than graphics — to present multivariate data to human analysts. Bly opens by arg…

  • sonification
  • auditory display
  • data visualization
  • multivariate data
  • non-visual interaction
  • historical
  • computer music
  • accessible data

• Human Diversity and the Choice of Interface: A Design Challenge

  Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Murray Turoff (1981) — Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Easier and More Productive Use of Computer Systems (CHI '81), Part II: Human Interface and the User Interface

  Hiltz and Turoff report findings from a multi-year National Science Foundation-funded field trial of the Electronic Information Exchange System (EIES), a pioneering computer-mediated communication platform built at the New Jersey Institute of Technol…

  • user interface
  • computer-mediated communication
  • adaptive interface
  • personalization
  • novice vs expert
  • user support
  • historical
  • interface design
  • human diversity