Literature Reviews

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

• Detecting Objects and Obstacles for Visually Impaired Individuals Using Visual Saliency

  Benoît Deville, Guido Bologna, Thierry Pun (2010) — Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)

  This demo paper presents the detection module of See ColOr (Seeing Colors with an Orchestra), a mobility aid for visually impaired people developed at the University of Geneva. See ColOr transforms visual information from the environment into musical…

  • visual impairment
  • obstacle detection
  • mobility aid
  • computer vision
  • sensory substitution
  • visual saliency
  • assistive technology

• "Maps are hard for me": Identifying How Older Adults Struggle with Mobile Maps

  Ja Eun Yu, Debaleena Chattopadhyay (2020) — ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This short paper from the University of Illinois at Chicago examines how older adults (aged 60+) use Google Maps on their own mobile devices and identifies the specific accessibility challenges they encounter. While smartphone ownership among US adul…

  • older adults
  • mobile accessibility
  • mobile maps
  • touchscreen
  • cognitive accessibility
  • visual saliency
  • affordances
  • information scent
  • usability