Literature Reviews

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

• Technology for Just-in-Time In-Situ Learning of Facial Affect for Persons Diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder

  Miriam Madsen, Rana el Kaliouby, Matthew Goodwin, Rosalind Picard (2008) — Proceedings of the 10th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '08)

  This MIT Media Lab paper presents a wearable technology system designed to help adolescents with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) learn to recognize and interpret facial expressions during real-time social interactions with their everyday companions. …

  • autism
  • affective computing
  • facial affect
  • emotion recognition
  • wearable technology
  • social cognition
  • assistive technology
  • computer vision
  • social skills

• Extraction of Emotional Information via Visual Scanning Patterns: A Feasibility Study of Participants with Schizophrenia and Neurotypical Individuals

  Joshua Wade, Heathman S. Nichols, Megan Ichinose, Dayi Bian, Esube Bekele, Matthew Snodgress, Ashwaq Zaini Amat, Eric Granholm, Sohee Park, Nilanjan Sarkar (2018) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper presents MASI-VR (Multimodal Adaptive Social Intervention in Virtual Reality), a gaze-sensitive social skills training system designed to improve emotion recognition in adults with schizophrenia (SZ). Emotion recognition impairment is a co…

  • schizophrenia
  • emotion recognition
  • eye tracking
  • virtual reality
  • social cognition
  • gaze-sensitive systems
  • social skills training
  • mental health

• Deconstructing a "puzzle" of visual experiences of blind and low-vision visual artists

  Yulia Zhiglova (2020) — Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2020)

  This short paper explores how blind and low-vision visual artists perceive and interpret visual information, with the goal of informing the design of a haptic device that could communicate rich visual details. While existing assistive technologies fo…

  • visual accessibility
  • blindness and low vision
  • haptic technology
  • disability arts
  • perception
  • social cognition
  • creative accessibility
  • sensory processing

• Establishing a Serious Game on Relationship Boundaries for People with Developmental Disabilities

  Samantha Conde (2020) — Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2020)

  This short paper presents "Boundaries," a serious game designed to help adults with developmental disabilities explore and discuss personal relationship boundaries — a topic motivated by alarming statistics on sexual violence against this population.…

  • developmental disability
  • serious games
  • safeguarding
  • sexuality
  • cognitive accessibility
  • social cognition
  • game accessibility
  • education

• TwIPS: A Large Language Model Powered Texting Application to Simplify Conversational Nuances for Autistic Users

  Rukhshan Haroon, Fahad Dogar (2024) — ASSETS '24: Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper presents TwIPS, a prototype texting application powered by a large language model that assists autistic users with the pragmatic and tonal aspects of text-based communication. Many autistic individuals experience difficulties interpreting …

  • autism
  • communication
  • large language models
  • text messaging
  • tone interpretation
  • masking
  • social cognition
  • AI-assisted communication
  • neurodiversity