Literature Reviews

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

• Personal guidance system for the visually impaired

  J. M. Loomis, R. G. Golledge, R. L. Klatzky, J. M. Speigle, J. Tietz (1994) — Proceedings of the First Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '94)

  This 1994 paper outlines the design and progress of a portable navigation system intended to enable visually impaired individuals to travel independently through both familiar and unfamiliar environments. The system integrates three core functional c…

  • navigation
  • blind users
  • GPS
  • geographic information system
  • wayfinding
  • spatial orientation
  • route planning
  • portable system
  • visually impaired
  • assistive navigation

• Probing the Gaps in ChatGPT's Live Video Chat for Real-World Assistance for People who are Blind or Visually Impaired

  Ruei-Che Chang, Rosiana Natalie, Wenqian Xu, Jovan Zheng Feng Yap, Anhong Guo (2025) — ASSETS 2025: 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper evaluates ChatGPT's Advanced Voice with Video feature — OpenAI's state-of-the-art live video AI released in December 2024 — as a real-world assistive tool for blind and visually impaired (BVI) individuals. The researchers conducted an in-p…

  • blind
  • visually impaired
  • large multimodal models
  • live video
  • ChatGPT
  • visual question answering
  • assistive technology
  • AI hallucination
  • sycophancy
  • navigation
  • object recognition