Literature Reviews

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

• Fuzzy Feelings: Arousal's Interpretive Noise and the Case for Acoustic-Based Haptics

  Caluã de Lacerda Pataca, Stephanie Patterson, Roshan L Peiris, Matt Huenerfauth (2026) — CHI '26: Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

  This CHI 2026 paper from a team at Rochester Institute of Technology and Birmingham City University tackles a persistent gap in captioning: traditional captions carry words but strip the emotional tone, rhythm, and vocal affect that sighted hearing v…

  • captioning
  • expressive captions
  • haptic feedback
  • vibrotactile
  • affective computing
  • speech emotion recognition
  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • DHH
  • arousal
  • valence
  • multimodal accessibility
  • prosody

• Sound, Touch, or the Full Monty? A Comparative Study of Accessible Data Exploration Systems for Blind Users

  Pramod Chundury, J. Bern Jordan, Yasmin Reyazuddin, Niklas Elmqvist, Jonathan Lazar (2026) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper presents a controlled within-subject comparative study of three accessible data exploration systems representing different sensory modalities: Olli (a screen-reader-based system using hierarchical text descriptions and keyboard navigation)…

  • data visualization
  • sonification
  • tactile graphics
  • refreshable braille display
  • multimodal accessibility
  • blind users
  • screen readers
  • user study
  • data accessibility