Literature Reviews

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

• Speaking Through Pictures: Images vs. Icons

  Xiaojuan Ma, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Sonya Nikolova, Perry R. Cook (2009) — Proceedings of the 11th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '09)

  This paper investigates whether freely available web images can serve as effective substitutes for professionally designed icons in assistive communication systems for people with aphasia. Existing icon-based systems like Lingraphica and C-VIC (Compu…

  • aphasia
  • augmentative and alternative communication
  • visual communication
  • icon-based communication
  • assistive technology
  • web images
  • elderly users
  • cognitive accessibility

• I See What You're Saying: A Literature Review of Eye Tracking Research in Communication of Deaf or Hard of Hearing Users

  Chanchal Agrawal, Roshan L Peiris (2021) — Proceedings of the 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '21)

  This paper presents a comprehensive literature review of 55 eye-tracking studies examining the gaze patterns and communication behaviours of deaf or hard-of-hearing (DHH) individuals. The authors systematically searched ACM, IEEE, Google Scholar, and…

  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • eye tracking
  • eye gaze
  • sign language
  • lip-reading
  • captions
  • attention management
  • visual communication
  • literature review