Literature Reviews

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

• Elderly Text-Entry Performance on Touchscreens

  Hugo Nicolau, Joaquim Jorge (2012) — Proceedings of the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '12)

  This paper presents an empirical study of how elderly users perform text-entry tasks on touchscreen devices, examining both mobile phones and tablets. Fifteen participants aged 67 to 89 (mean 79) were asked to copy sentences on an HTC Desire smartpho…

  • touchscreen accessibility
  • text entry
  • aging
  • motor accessibility
  • tremor
  • mobile accessibility
  • virtual keyboard
  • older adults
  • input methods

• Motor-Impaired Touchscreen Interactions in the Wild

  Kyle Montague, Hugo Nicolau, Vicki L. Hanson (2014) — ASSETS '14: Proceedings of the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility

  This paper examines how touchscreen interaction performance varies over time for people with motor impairments, moving beyond snapshot lab studies to a four-week in-the-wild evaluation. Nine participants with conditions including Parkinson's disease,…

  • motor impairments
  • touchscreen
  • mobile accessibility
  • gesture recognition
  • Parkinson's disease
  • tremor
  • user modelling
  • in-the-wild study