Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
5 results found tagged situational awareness.
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When Audio Is Enough: Design-Tradeoffs in Multi-Story MR Navigation
This CHI '26 exploratory study asks when an augmented-reality navigation aid can rely on audio alone. The authors argue that visual-first MR interfaces impose extra cognitive load and attention tunneling in high-stakes, cognitively demanding settings…
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SoundWeAR: Co-Designing AR Sound Cues to Support Outdoor Awareness for DHH Individuals
SoundWeAR investigates how augmented-reality glasses can translate environmental sound into visual cues that support the situational awareness of Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) people in outdoor settings - a context prior work has largely neglected i…
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Addressing the Situational Impairments Encountered by Firefighters through the Design of Alerts
This paper describes a structured multi-step approach to designing multimodal alerts for firefighters who experience severe situationally-induced impairments and disabilities (SIIDs) at fire scenes — thick smoke restricting vision, loud noise from co…
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"I stepped into a puddle": Non-Visual Texting in Nomadic Contexts
This study investigates the under-explored practice of texting by people who are blind and visually impaired (BVI) while navigating outdoors — what the authors term "nomadic contexts." While previous research has examined accessible text entry method…
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SoundNarratives: Rich Auditory Scene Descriptions to Support Deaf and Hard of Hearing People
This paper introduces SoundNarratives, a real-time system that generates rich, contextual auditory scene descriptions tailored to deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) users. Existing sound recognition technologies typically classify sounds into predefined …