Literature Reviews

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

• VoiceDraw: a hands-free voice-driven drawing application for people with motor impairments

  Susumu Harada, Jacob O. Wobbrock, James A. Landay (2007) — Proceedings of the 9th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '07)

  Harada, Wobbrock, and Landay's Assets '07 paper introduces VoiceDraw, a hands-free digital painting application for people with severe motor impairments that uses *non-speech* vocalisations — continuously-held vowel sounds and short consonant clicks …

  • motor accessibility
  • voice interface
  • non-speech vocalisation
  • speech recognition
  • vocal joystick
  • hands-free
  • creative accessibility
  • direct manipulation
  • spinal cord injury
  • user-centred design

• Demo of VJ-Voicebot: Control of Robotic Arm with the Vocal Joystick

  Brandi House, Jon Malkin, Jeff Bilmes (2007) — Proceedings of the 9th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '07)

  This demonstration paper from the University of Washington presents VJ-Voicebot, a system that allows individuals with motor disabilities to continuously control a 5 degrees-of-freedom robotic arm using non-verbal vocal sounds. The system builds on t…

  • assistive robotics
  • voice interface
  • motor impairment
  • continuous voice control
  • robotic arm
  • vocal joystick
  • alternative input
  • independent living