Literature Reviews

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

• FAME: Exploring Expressive Facial Avatars for Lyrical and Non-Lyrical Music Visualization for d/Deaf Individuals

  Suhyeon Yoo, Yifang Pan, Ashish Ajin Thomas, Karan Singh, Khai N. Truong (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This CHI 2026 paper investigates whether expressive facial avatars can carry the emotional and structural richness of music — rhythm, pitch, melody, lyrics, and emotion — to d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) audiences in ways that captions and abstrac…

  • Deaf music
  • DHH
  • music accessibility
  • facial avatar
  • music visualization
  • scat singing
  • captions
  • lip-sync
  • sign language
  • aural diversity
  • design probe
  • multimodal interaction
  • Deaf culture