Literature Reviews

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

• Like, Comment & Caption: A Decade of Social Media Video Caption Research (2015-2025)

  Huong Nguyen, Emma J. McDonnell, Lloyd May, Alexander Druzenko, Zoobia Saifullah Syeda, Mark Cartwright, Sooyeon Lee (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This CHI 2026 paper is a systematic literature review of 36 peer-reviewed studies on Social Media Video Captions (SMVC) published between 2015 and 2025, spanning HCI, accessibility, media studies, education, and language learning. The authors use 'SM…

  • captioning
  • captions
  • video accessibility
  • social media accessibility
  • Deaf and hard of hearing
  • neurodivergence
  • language learners
  • participatory design
  • systematic literature review
  • automatic speech recognition
  • non-speech information
  • TikTok
  • YouTube

• Enhancing Caption Accessibility through Simultaneous Multimodal Information: Visual-Tactile Captions

  Raja S. Kushalnagar, Gary W. Behm, Joseph S. Stanislow, Vasu Gupta (2014) — Proceedings of the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This paper addresses a fundamental limitation of captions (subtitles) for deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) viewers: captions force viewers to split attention between reading text at the bottom of the screen and watching the visual action, inevitably ca…

  • captioning
  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • haptic feedback
  • multimodal interaction
  • non-speech information
  • sensory substitution
  • multimedia accessibility

• Enhancing Non-Speech Information Communicated in Closed Captioning Through Critical Design

  May, Lloyd, Park, So Yeon, Berger, Jonathan (2023) — Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This paper investigates the communication of non-speech information (NSI) in closed captioning for d/Deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) viewers through a mixed-methods study combining needfinding interviews, prototype development, surveys, and evaluation…

  • captioning
  • non-speech information
  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • critical design
  • sound communication
  • media accessibility
  • customization
  • video accessibility

• CapTune: Adapting Non-Speech Captions With Anchored Generative Models

  Jeremy Zhengqi Huang, Caluã De Lacerda Pataca, Saelyne Yang Wu, Dhruv Jain (2025) — ASSETS 2025: 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  CapTune is a system that enables customization of non-speech captions—descriptions of environmental sounds, music, and other audio cues—for Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) viewers. Current captioning practices follow a one-size-fits-all model based on…

  • closed captioning
  • non-speech information
  • caption customization
  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • generative AI
  • personalization
  • media accessibility
  • creator tools
  • large language models