Literature Reviews

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

• Leveraging Augmented Reality to Create Apps for People with Visual Disabilities: A Case Study in Indoor Navigation

  Chris Yoon, Ryan Louie, Jeremy Ryan, MinhKhang Vu, Hyegi Bang, William Derksen, Paul Ruvolo (2019) — Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2019)

  This paper presents Clew, an iOS app that leverages Apple’s ARKit augmented reality framework to help people who are blind or visually impaired (B/VI) navigate indoor environments — a setting where GPS is unreliable (accuracy drops to ~5m+ indoors). …

  • augmented reality
  • indoor navigation
  • orientation and mobility
  • blind
  • low vision
  • visual inertial odometry
  • ARKit
  • mobile accessibility
  • wayfinding
  • haptic feedback