Literature Reviews

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

• The Cost of Turning Heads: A Comparison of a Head-Worn Display to a Smartphone for Supporting Persons with Aphasia in Conversation

  Kristin Williams, Karyn Moffatt, Jonggi Hong, Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah, Leah Findlater (2016) — ASSETS '16: Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This study directly compares head-worn displays (HWDs) to smartphones for providing vocabulary support to people with aphasia—an acquired language disorder caused by brain damage (typically stroke) that affects word-finding, comprehension, and langua…

  • aphasia
  • AAC
  • augmentative and alternative communication
  • head-worn display
  • wearable computing
  • conversation support
  • vocabulary support
  • Google Glass