Literature Reviews

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

• Development of Dialogue Systems for a Mobility Aid for Blind People: Initial Design and Usability Testing

  Thomas Strothotte, Steffi Fritz, Rainer Michel, Andreas Raab, Helen Petrie, Valerie Johnson, Lars Reichert, Axel Schalt (1996) — Proceedings of the Second Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '96)

  This paper presents the MoBIC Travel Aid (MoTA), an EU-funded system designed to increase independent mobility for blind and elderly travellers by combining Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with the Global Positioning System (GPS). The system has…

  • blindness and low vision
  • navigation
  • GPS
  • GIS
  • orientation and mobility
  • wayfinding
  • route planning
  • electronic travel aid
  • user-centered design

• Planning Your Journey in Audio: Design and Evaluation of Auditory Route Overviews

  Nida Aziz, Tony Stockman, Rebecca Stewart (2022) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This research develops and evaluates an auditory route overview system that enables blind users to preview walking routes before embarking on journeys. The system addresses a critical gap: while many navigation aids support live guidance, few tools a…

  • blind navigation
  • auditory display
  • route planning
  • auditory icons
  • earcons
  • sonification
  • wayfinding
  • user-led design
  • mental maps

• A Collaborative System for Suitable Wheelchair Route Planning

  Guilherme L. Barczyszyn, Letícia M. De O. Camenar, Diego De F. Do Nascimento, Nádia P. Kozievitch, Ricardo D. Da Silva, Leonelo D. A. Almeida, Juliana De Santi, Rodrigo Minetto (2018) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper presents a collaborative system for wheelchair route planning that fundamentally reimagines how navigation services work for people with mobility impairments. Unlike standard route planners like Google Maps that provide street-based direct…

  • mobility accessibility
  • wheelchair users
  • route planning
  • crowdsourcing
  • geographic information systems
  • urban computing
  • participatory design

• Personal guidance system for the visually impaired

  J. M. Loomis, R. G. Golledge, R. L. Klatzky, J. M. Speigle, J. Tietz (1994) — Proceedings of the First Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '94)

  This 1994 paper outlines the design and progress of a portable navigation system intended to enable visually impaired individuals to travel independently through both familiar and unfamiliar environments. The system integrates three core functional c…

  • navigation
  • blind users
  • GPS
  • geographic information system
  • wayfinding
  • spatial orientation
  • route planning
  • portable system
  • visually impaired
  • assistive navigation

• Linked Data-Driven Decision Support for Accessible Travelling

  Chaohai Ding, Mike Wald, Gary Wills (2015) — Proceedings of the 12th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This doctoral consortium paper proposes using Linked Data principles to build a decision support system (DSS) for accessible travel planning, primarily targeting people with mobility difficulties. The core problem is that accessibility information ab…

  • linked data
  • semantic web
  • accessible travel
  • mobility impairment
  • decision support system
  • open data
  • wayfinding
  • route planning
  • data integration