Literature Reviews

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

• Using Handhelds to Help People with Motor Impairments

  Brad A. Myers, Jacob O. Wobbrock, Sunny Yang, Brian Yeung, Jeffrey Nichols, Robert Miller (2002) — Proceedings of the Fifth International ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '02)

  This paper presents the Pebbles project from Carnegie Mellon University, which developed software allowing handheld computers (Palm PDAs) to substitute for a PC's mouse and keyboard for people with muscular dystrophy and similar neuromuscular disorde…

  • motor disability
  • muscular dystrophy
  • alternative input
  • assistive technology
  • handheld devices
  • text entry
  • on-screen keyboard
  • word prediction
  • case study
  • fine motor control

• A Tool for Creating Eye-Aware Applications that Adapt to Changes in User Behavior

  Greg Edwards (1998) — Proceedings of the Third International ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '98)

  This paper from Stanford University's Archimedes Project presents the Black Squirrel Eye Interpretation Engine, a development tool for creating eye-aware software applications that adapt in real-time to changes in a user's natural eye-movement behavi…

  • eye tracking
  • gaze interaction
  • eye-controlled interface
  • adaptive interface
  • ALS
  • motor disabilities
  • on-screen keyboard
  • Midas Touch problem
  • assistive technology

• Text Entry for Mobile Devices and Users with Severe Motor Impairments: HandiGlyph, a Primitive Shapes Based Onscreen Keyboard

  Mohammed Belatar, Franck Poirier (2008) — Proceedings of the 10th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '08)

  This paper presents HandiGlyph, a text input method for mobile devices designed for users with severe motor disabilities such as Cerebral Palsy, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Locked-In Syndrome, and quadriplegia. The system is built on the UniGlyph …

  • text entry
  • motor disability
  • on-screen keyboard
  • AAC
  • scanning input
  • locked-in syndrome
  • mobile accessibility
  • assistive technology