Literature Reviews

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

• Click on Bake to Get Cookies: Guiding Word-Finding with Semantic Associations

  Sonya Nikolova, Marilyn Tremaine, Perry R. Cook (2010) — Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)

  This paper presents ViVA (Visual Vocabulary for Aphasia), a vocabulary navigation system that uses semantic associations to help people with aphasia find words more effectively. The authors address a core challenge in augmentative and alternative com…

  • aphasia
  • semantic networks
  • AAC
  • visual vocabularies
  • word-finding
  • assistive communication
  • adaptive user interfaces
  • lexical access

• The application of spatialization and spatial metaphor to augmentative and alternative communication

  Patrick Demasco, Alan F. Newell, John L. Arnott (1994) — Proceedings of the First Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '94)

  This paper presents a collaborative project between the University of Delaware and the University of Dundee investigating how spatialization and spatial metaphors from mainstream HCI research can improve interfaces for augmentative and alternative co…

  • augmentative and alternative communication
  • spatial interface
  • human-computer interaction
  • lexical access
  • information visualization
  • cerebral palsy
  • word prediction