Literature Reviews

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

• Text Entry from Power Wheelchairs: EdgeWrite for Joysticks and Touchpads

  Jacob O. Wobbrock, Brad A. Myers, Htet Htet Aung, Edmund F. LoPresti (2004) — Proceedings of the 6th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets 04)

  This paper presents two adaptations of EdgeWrite, a gestural text entry method originally designed as a stylus-based unistroke technique for people with tremor, reconfigured for use with power wheelchair joysticks and touchpads. The research addresse…

  • text entry
  • motor accessibility
  • power wheelchair
  • joystick
  • touchpad
  • gestural input
  • participatory design
  • assistive technology
  • integrated control system

• Head-Guided Wheelchair Control System

  John B. Hinkel (2010) — Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)

  This student research paper presents a system that allows individuals without hand use to control a motorized wheelchair through simple head movements. The author identifies that existing alternative wheelchair control methods — such as sip-and-puff …

  • power wheelchair
  • head tracking
  • motor impairment
  • alternative input
  • assistive technology
  • quadriplegia

• See-Thru: Towards Minimally Obstructive Eye-Controlled Wheelchair Interfaces

  Corten Clemente Singer, Björn Hartmann (2019) — Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This paper presents See-Thru, an eye-tracking interface for controlling power wheelchairs that replaces the conventional obstructive computer screen with a transparent wire-frame device containing spatially arranged LEDs. The fundamental problem with…

  • eye tracking
  • eye-gaze control
  • power wheelchair
  • motor disability
  • assistive technology
  • field of view
  • navigation
  • user interface design
  • user study