Literature Reviews

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

3 results found tagged web search.

Enhancing Internet Search Abilities for People with Intellectual Disabilities in Sri Lanka

Theja K. Arachchi, Laurianne Sitbon, Jinglan Zhang, Ruwan Gamage, Priyantha Hewagamage (2021) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

This study examines how young adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) in Sri Lanka, who had never previously used the Internet, learned to perform web searches using Google in their native Sinhala language. Ten participants aged 18-30 from two spe…
VERSE: Bridging Screen Readers and Voice Assistants for Enhanced Eyes-Free Web Search

Alexandra Vtyurina, Adam Fourney, Meredith Ringel Morris, Leah Findlater, Ryen W. White (2019) — Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2019)

This paper identifies the complementary strengths and weaknesses of screen readers and voice assistants (VAs) for blind web searchers, then presents VERSE (Voice Exploration, Retrieval, and SEarch), a prototype that merges the best of both technologi…
An Analysis of Age, Technology Usage, and Cognitive Characteristics Within Information Retrieval Tasks

Michael Crabb, Vicki L. Hanson (2016) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

This paper challenges the common practice of using chronological age as the primary metric for distinguishing user performance in HCI studies, arguing that Internet confidence and cognitive factors — particularly perceptual speed — are far better pre…