Literature Reviews

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

• ClassInFocus: Enabling Improved Visual Attention Strategies for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students

  Anna C. Cavender, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Richard E. Ladner (2009) — Assets '09: Proceedings of the 11th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper presents ClassInFocus, a system designed to help deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students manage the demanding visual attention requirements of modern multi-modal classrooms. DHH students face a unique challenge: while hearing students can …

  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • classroom accessibility
  • visual attention
  • notifications
  • eye tracking
  • sign language interpretation
  • real-time captioning
  • education

• Access on Demand: Real-time, Multi-modal Accessibility for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing based on Augmented Reality

  Roshan Mathew, Brian Mak, Wendy Dannels (2022) — Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '22)

  This experience report documents two deaf researchers' hands-on evaluation of Access on Demand (AoD), an augmented reality application developed at Rochester Institute of Technology that delivers real-time captioning and American Sign Language (ASL) …

  • augmented reality
  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • smart glasses
  • captioning
  • sign language interpretation
  • assistive technology
  • wearable technology
  • real-time captioning
  • automatic speech recognition