Inclusive Immersion: a review of efforts to improve accessibility in virtual reality, augmented reality and the metaverse

J Dudley, L Yin, V Garaj, PO Kristensson - Virtual Reality, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) afford new forms of work and
leisure. While affordable and effective VR and AR headsets are now available, neither …

What do we mean by “accessibility research”? A literature survey of accessibility papers in CHI and ASSETS from 1994 to 2019

K Mack, E McDonnell, D Jain, L Lu Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Accessibility research has grown substantially in the past few decades, yet there has been
no literature review of the field. To understand current and historical trends, we created and …

Inclusive AR/VR: accessibility barriers for immersive technologies

C Creed, M Al-Kalbani, A Theil, S Sarcar… - Universal Access in the …, 2024 - Springer
Augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) hold significant potential to transform how we
communicate, collaborate, and interact with others. However, there has been a lack of work …

GazePointAR: A context-aware multimodal voice assistant for pronoun disambiguation in wearable augmented reality

J Lee, J Wang, E Brown, L Chu, SS Rodriguez… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Voice assistants (VAs) like Siri and Alexa are transforming human-computer interaction;
however, they lack awareness of users' spatiotemporal context, resulting in limited …

RealityTalk: Real-time speech-driven augmented presentation for AR live storytelling

J Liao, A Karim, SS Jadon, RH Kazi… - Proceedings of the 35th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We present RealityTalk, a system that augments real-time live presentations with speech-
driven interactive virtual elements. Augmented presentations leverage embedded visuals …

Wearable augmented reality: Research trends and future directions from three major venues

TTM Tran, S Brown, O Weidlich… - … on Visualization and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wearable Augmented Reality (AR) has attracted considerable attention in recent years, as
evidenced by the growing number of research publications and industry investments. With …

Remotely co-designing features for communication applications using automatic captioning with deaf and hearing pairs

M Seita, S Lee, S Andrew, K Shinohara… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) users face accessibility challenges during in-person and
remote meetings. While emerging use of applications incorporating automatic speech …

Social, environmental, and technical: Factors at play in the current use and future design of small-group captioning

EJ McDonnell, P Liu, SM Goodman… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Real-time captioning is a critical accessibility tool for many d/Deaf and hard of hearing
(DHH) people. While the vast majority of captioning work has focused on formal settings and …

Dreamstruct: Understanding slides and user interfaces via synthetic data generation

YH Peng, F Huq, Y Jiang, J Wu, XY Li… - … on Computer Vision, 2024 - Springer
Enabling machines to understand structured visuals like slides and user interfaces is
essential for making them accessible to people with disabilities. However, achieving such …

Emoballoon-conveying emotional arousal in text chats with speech balloons

T Aoki, R Chujo, K Matsui, S Choi… - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Text chat applications are an integral part of daily social and professional communication.
However, messages sent over text chat applications do not convey vocal or nonverbal …