Literature Reviews

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

• ElectroGrasp: Electrotactile Aids for Visually Impaired Individuals in Anticipatory Planning and Control of Grasp

  Hechuan Zhang, Rufei Song, Ruoyan Liu, Shengsheng Jiang, Xiaohui Tan, Tianren Luo, Yulin Jin, Hongnan Lin, Teng Han, Feng Tian (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  Sighted people pre-shape their hand before touching an object - a visually-driven anticipatory grasp plan that visually impaired (VI) users cannot form, leading to the characteristic 'double grip' (initial contact followed by compensatory regrasp) th…

  • blind and low vision
  • electrotactile feedback
  • haptic technology
  • assistive technology
  • wearable technology
  • spatial perception
  • grasping
  • proprioception
  • sensory substitution
  • motor control
  • cross-modal plasticity

• Leveraging Proprioception to Make Mobile Phones More Accessible to Users with Visual Impairments

  Frank Chun Yat Li, David Dearman, Khai N. Truong (2010) — Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)

  This paper extends Virtual Shelves — an interaction technique that leverages proprioception (the sense of body position and movement) to provide eyes-free access to mobile phone shortcuts — for users with visual impairments. The core concept is elega…

  • visual impairment
  • proprioception
  • mobile accessibility
  • interaction techniques
  • eyes-free interaction
  • screen reader

• A Performance Comparison of On-Hand versus On-Phone Nonvisual Input by Blind and Sighted Users

  Uran Oh, Leah Findlater (2015) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

  This study investigates whether using one's own hand as an input surface offers performance advantages over touchscreen phones for blind users performing nonvisual interaction. On-body input is particularly attractive for blind users because it provi…

  • on-body interaction
  • mobile accessibility
  • blindness
  • touchscreen accessibility
  • gesture input
  • proprioception
  • tactile feedback
  • nonvisual interaction
  • alternative input
  • user study