Literature Reviews

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

• I-VAMOS: Independent Voting with Accessible Multimodal Offline System for Visually Impaired Users

  Gyeongdeok Kim, Chungman Lim, Gyungmin Jin, Gunhyuk Park (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This paper introduces I-VAMOS, an offline multimodal voting assistance system designed to enable blind and low-vision (BLV) voters to cast paper ballots independently and secretly. The authors situate their work in the constitutional right to a secre…

  • blind and low vision
  • voting
  • optical character recognition
  • multimodal feedback
  • auditory feedback
  • visual feedback
  • assistive technology
  • civic participation

• visiBabble Demo

  Harriet Fell, Joel MacAuslan, Jun Gong, Josh Ostrow (2005) — Proceedings of the 7th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '05)

  This paper presents a demonstration of visiBabble, a computer-based system designed to encourage and reinforce pre-speech vocalizations in infants at risk of being nonspeaking due to neurological or oral/motor impairments. The system consists of a no…

  • early intervention
  • pre-speech vocalizations
  • speech technology
  • visual feedback
  • assistive technology
  • child development
  • AAC
  • acoustic analysis

• A system for teaching speech to profoundly deaf children using synthesized acoustic and articulatory patterns

  E. Keate, H. Javkin, N. Antonanzas-Barroso, R. Zou (1994) — Proceedings of the First Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '94)

  This paper describes a PC-based computer-assisted speech training system for profoundly deaf children that integrates a text-to-speech (TTS) synthesizer to generate both acoustic and articulatory models for any typed utterance. The system addresses a…

  • deaf education
  • speech training
  • text-to-speech
  • palatography
  • visual feedback
  • acoustic analysis
  • articulation
  • speech synthesis
  • deaf children
  • computer-aided instruction
  • formant analysis

• CHIMELIGHT: Augmenting Instruments in Interactive Music Therapy for Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders

  Joana Lobo, Soichiro Matsuda, Izumi Futamata, Ryoichi Sakuta, Kenji Suzuki (2019) — Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This paper presents CHIMELIGHT, an IoT-based system that augments handchime musical instruments with real-time visual feedback to support music therapists working with children who have neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) including autism spectrum di…

  • music therapy
  • neurodevelopmental disorder
  • autism spectrum disorder
  • ADHD
  • children
  • IoT
  • assistive technology
  • visual feedback
  • behavior modification
  • social playware
  • applied behavior analysis

• The Eyes Have It: Visual Feedback Methods to Make Walking in Immersive Virtual Reality More Accessible for People With Mobility Impairments While Utilizing Head-Mounted Displays

  M. Rasel Mahmud, Alberto Cordova, John Quarles (2023) — Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2023)

  This paper addresses a critical accessibility barrier in VR: head-mounted displays (HMDs) obstruct peripheral vision of the real world, causing gait disturbances that are particularly dangerous for people with mobility impairments who rely on visual …

  • virtual reality
  • mobility impairment
  • multiple sclerosis
  • gait
  • visual feedback
  • head-mounted display
  • accessibility
  • balance

• Encouraging Speech and Vocalization in Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder

  Joshua Hailpern (2007) — SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing

  This paper reviews existing HCI research on autism spectrum disorder and proposes a new direction: using technology to encourage speech and vocalization in children with ASD who have not acquired spoken language. The author identifies a gap in the fi…

  • autism spectrum disorder
  • speech disorder
  • vocalization
  • visual feedback
  • auditory feedback
  • augmentative and alternative communication
  • applied behavior analysis
  • social robot