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• SpeechOmeter: Heads-up Monitoring to Improve Speech Clarity

  Mansoor Pervaiz, Rupal Patel · 2014 · Proceedings of the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility (ASSETS '14)

  This demonstration paper presents SpeechOmeter, a Google Glass application that provides real-time visual biofeedback on vocal loudness to help individuals with neuromotor speech disorders (dysarthria) speak more clearly during daily conversation. Dysarthria accompanies…

  speech disorders · dysarthria · speech therapy · wearable technology · biofeedback

• Making the Web Easier to See with Opportunistic Accessibility Improvement

  Jeffrey P. Bigham · 2014 · ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

  This paper introduces the concept of "opportunistic accessibility improvement" — the idea that accessibility enhancements like magnification should be automatically applied to the maximum extent possible without causing negative side effects. The author implements this concept…

  low vision · magnification · web accessibility · responsive design · screen magnification

• Real-Time Captioning with the Crowd

  Walter S. Lasecki, Jeffrey P. Bigham · 2014 · Interactions

  This article presents Scribe, a crowdsourced real-time captioning system that allows groups of non-expert typists to collectively produce captions at the speed of natural speech — a task that normally requires highly trained professional stenographers. The authors motivate the…

  real-time captioning · crowdsourcing · deaf and hard of hearing · speech-to-text · human computation

• Tracking @stemxcomet: Teaching Programming to Blind Students via 3D Printing, Crisis Management, and Twitter

  Shaun K. Kane, Jeffrey P. Bigham · 2014 · ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

  This paper describes the design and execution of a four-day programming workshop for blind and visually impaired high school students, conducted as part of the National Federation of the Blind's STEM-X summer science camp. Nine students (grades 8-12) learned Ruby programming…

  accessible programming · computer science education · blindness · visual impairment · 3D printing

• Legion Scribe: Real-Time Captioning by Non-Experts

  Walter S. Lasecki, Raja Kushalnagar, Jeffrey P. Bigham · 2014 · ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This demonstration paper presents Legion:Scribe, a crowd-powered captioning system that enables groups of 3-5 non-expert typists to collectively produce real-time captions with less than 5 seconds of latency. The system addresses the prohibitive cost of professional…

  real-time captioning · crowdsourcing · deaf and hard of hearing · speech-to-text · human computation

• Mosaic: Collaborative Ways for Older Adults to Use Their Expertise through Information Technologies

  Atsushi Hiyama, Masatomo Kobayashi, Hironobu Takagi, Michitaka Hirose · 2014 · ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing, Issue 110

  This SIGACCESS Newsletter article from IBM Research Tokyo and the University of Tokyo argues that accessibility research for older adults has focused too narrowly on healthcare and assistive tools that compensate for declining abilities, and proposes a complementary research…

  aging · older adults · hyper-aged society · senior cloud · crowdsourcing

• Implementation and Evaluation of Animation Controls Sufficient for Conveying ASL Facial Expressions

  Hernisa Kacorri, Matt Huenerfauth · 2014 · Proceedings of the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility (ASSETS '14)

  This ASSETS 2014 short paper (2 pages) reports an infrastructure contribution to sign-language-animation research: the authors extended an existing virtual human character (Max, on the open-source EMBR animation platform) with a full set of MPEG-4 Facial Action Parameter (FAP)…

  american sign language · sign language animation · signing avatar · deaf and hard of hearing · facial expression