Literature Reviews

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

• Introduction to the Talking Points Project

  Scott Gifford, Jim Knox, Jonathan James, Atul Prakash (2006) — Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '06)

  This paper introduces the Talking Points project from the University of Michigan, a system that attaches digital information to physical places and objects using passive RFID tags, creating an accessible "augmented reality" for blind and visually imp…

  • visual impairment
  • RFID
  • wayfinding
  • location awareness
  • ubiquitous computing
  • augmented reality
  • universal design
  • text-to-speech

• Real-Time Anomaly Detection for Traveling Individuals

  Tian-Shya Ma (2009) — Proceedings of the 11th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '09)

  This short paper presents a real-time anomaly detection system designed to help individuals with cognitive impairments travel safely and independently on routine journeys such as commuting via public transportation. The system works by comparing a tr…

  • cognitive impairment
  • navigation
  • location awareness
  • anomaly detection
  • safety
  • independent living
  • mobile technology
  • ubiquitous computing

• Getting mobile with mobile devices: using the web to improve transit accessibility

  Darren Minifie, Yvonne Coady (2009) — Proceedings of the 2009 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibililty (W4A)

  This paper proposes a mobile web-based architecture for making public transit accessible to blind and visually impaired travelers. Drawing on direct feedback from the blind community (including one of the authors, who is visually impaired), the paper…

  • mobile accessibility
  • public transportation
  • visual impairment
  • blindness
  • GPS
  • wayfinding
  • context-aware computing
  • location awareness
  • accessible transportation