Literature Reviews

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

• Mnemonic Tracing: Using Eye Gaze to Search for Visual Memories

  Wazeer Zulfikar, Yasith Samaradivakara, Paul Pu Liang, Pattie Maes (2026) — Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’26)

  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, …

  • eye tracking
  • gaze interaction
  • gaze reinstatement
  • episodic memory
  • image retrieval
  • hands-free interaction
  • implicit interaction
  • wearable technology
  • multimodal AI

• Improving Accessibility of HTML Documents by Generating Image-Tags in a Proxy

  Daniel Keysers, Marius Renn, Thomas M. Breuel (2007) — Proceedings of the 9th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '07)

  This paper from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and Technical University Kaiserslautern presents a system that automatically generates ALT tags for images on web pages by analysing image contents through a web proxy. The…

  • automatic alt text
  • image accessibility
  • web accessibility
  • computer vision
  • image retrieval
  • web proxy
  • content-based image retrieval
  • screen readers
  • machine learning

• "Hands On" Visual Recognition for Visually Impaired Users

  Joan Sosa-García, Francesca Odone (2017) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper presents a collaborative visual recognition system designed to help blind or visually impaired (BVI) users identify specific product instances — distinguishing between brands, models, or types of objects that feel similar when handled. Whi…

  • visual impairment
  • object recognition
  • computer vision
  • assistive technology
  • wearable technology
  • image retrieval
  • machine learning