Literature Reviews

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

• Better Vocabularies for Assistive Communication Aids: Connecting Terms Using Semantic Networks and Untrained Annotators

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

  This paper presents the design and evaluation of ViVA (Visual Vocabulary for Aphasia), an assistive communication tool that uses semantic networks to help people with aphasia find words more easily. The authors address a fundamental problem with exis…

  • aphasia
  • assistive communication
  • semantic networks
  • visual vocabularies
  • adaptive tools
  • crowdsourcing
  • vocabulary navigation
  • AAC