Literature Reviews

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

• Speaker-Aware Affective Captioning for Multi-Speaker STEM Talk in Inclusive Classrooms

  Sunday David Ubur, Denis Gracanin, Stephanie P DeHart, Enoch Katey Akli, Fatemeh Sarshartehrani, Sikiru Adewale (2026) — Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '26)

  Ubur and colleagues at Virginia Tech address a specific failure mode of live captioning in classroom and meeting settings: collapsing multi-speaker discourse into a single text stream that obscures who said what and how it was said. They argue this i…

  • captioning
  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • speaker diarization
  • speech emotion recognition
  • STEM education
  • classroom accessibility
  • automatic speech recognition