Literature Reviews

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

• Creating 'a Simple Conversation': Designing a Conversational User Interface to Improve the Experience of Accessing Support for Study

  Francisco Iniesto, Tim Coughlan, Kate Lister, Peter Devine, Nick Freear, Richard Greenwood, Wayne Holmes, Ian Kenny, Kevin McLeod, Ruth Tudor (2023) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper presents the ADMINS (Assistants for the Disclosure and Management of Information about Needs and Support) project, which developed a virtual assistant named "Taylor" to help students disclose disabilities and arrange support at The Open Un…

  • conversational user interface
  • chatbot
  • virtual assistant
  • disability disclosure
  • higher education
  • administrative burden
  • accessibility

• HoloLearn: Wearable Mixed Reality for People with Neurodevelopmental Disorders (NDD)

  Beatrice Aruanno, Franca Garzotto, Emanuele Torelli, Francesco Vona (2018) — Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2018)

  This paper presents HoloLearn, a mixed reality application built for Microsoft HoloLens that aims to help people with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD) learn to perform everyday domestic tasks and improve their autonomy. The system was designed coll…

  • mixed reality
  • neurodevelopmental disorders
  • intellectual disability
  • HoloLens
  • wearable technology
  • virtual assistant
  • daily living skills
  • assistive technology

• Assessing Virtual Assistant Capabilities with Italian Dysarthric Speech

  Fabio Ballati, Fulvio Corno, Luigi De Russis (2018) — Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '18)

  This paper evaluates how well three major smartphone virtual assistants — Apple's Siri, Google Assistant, and Microsoft's Cortana — can understand and respond to Italian dysarthric speech. Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder characterized by slurre…

  • speech recognition
  • dysarthria
  • virtual assistant
  • voice interface
  • ALS
  • speech accessibility
  • multilingual accessibility