OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Universal Access in the Information Society is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
An instrument for the determination of learning objects quality for students with visual impairment integrating the services theory (ILOBlind)	109
Falling through the net again: exploring the characteristics of internet dropout in China	91
An audio MOOC framework for the digital inclusion of low literate people in the distance education process	71
Universal access in the information Society (2001–2021): knowledge, experience, challenges and new perspectives	66
Analysis of the accessibility of selected massive open online courses (MOOCs) for users with disabilities	51
Evaluating the accessibility and performance of government websites in Nigeria	50
Ratings and experiences in using a mobile application to increase physical activity among university students: implications for future design	37
Designing effective adaptive serious games: multimodal interaction strategies for cognitive training in older adults with evidence from China	37
Service-learning for accessibility: understanding WCAG errors and successes in Spanish city council websites	34
Factors influencing intention to engage in human–chatbot interaction: examining user perceptions and context culture orientation	33
Evaluating an accessibility intervention based on persona cards with diverse needs to teach accessibility to undergraduate students	29
A framework to improve the accessibility of social media account content	28
What do faculty members know about universal design and digital accessibility? A qualitative study in computer science and engineering disciplines	27
Dynamic detection of accessibility smells	27
Participation in crowdsourcing micro-tasks: what motivates brazilian older adults?	26
Conceptualization and survey instrument development for mobile application usability	26
Web accessibility and inclusivity of tourist destinations at social media management. An intercultural analysis of Andalusia and Northern Morocco	23
Establishing the connection between speech-language pathologists and technology developers in designing novel textile-based AAC (TAAC) technologies	22
Accessibility first: detecting frustration in web browsing for visually impaired and sighted smartphone users	22
Untangling factors influencing social networking sites use among older adults: a literature review	20
Special issue on sign language translation and avatar technology	20
A smartphone-based program enabling people with intellectual and other disabilities to access leisure, communication, and functional activities	20
Integrating online meta-cognitive learning strategy and team regulation to develop students’ programming skills, academic motivation, and refusal self-efficacy of Internet use in a cloud classroom	20
Exploring an intelligent product service system for early cognitive intervention for Alzheimer’s disease	19
Responsive inclusive design (RiD): a new model for inclusive software development	19

Applying theatre-based role-playing combined with AR and VR game strategies to enhance imagination and symbolic play skills in children with autism spectrum disorder	19
An assistive technology based on Peirce’s semiotics for the inclusive education of deaf and hearing children	18
Analysis of the digital accessibility of selected Polish government portals for persons with disabilities	18
Decreasing user engagement in clickbait: an ERP study on the effectiveness of warning labels in online platform	18
Continued usage intention of novice and expert players in social network games	17
A software acceptance testing approach with accessibility for the deaf	17
Optimizing a digital health education platform for the elderly: influences on annotation and interaction design	17
Do sentiments of professors feedback change after migrating from in-person to online modalities? Pre- and during COVID-19 experience	16
Universal and ecological design in media accessibility: finding common ground	16
Accessibility of public library websites in the United States	16
Adoption of artificial intelligence artifacts: a literature review	16
Delving into the mental access of using digital public services in later life - peer tutors’ perspective	16
Neural machine translation from text to sign language	16
Usability and accessibility-based quality evaluation of Indian airline websites: An MCDM approach	16
Assessing touchscreen operations under vibration: effects of vibrational environments, button size, and button spacing on digit- and letter-entry task performance	16
Enhancing quality of life for the hearing-impaired: a holistic approach through the MoSIoT framework	15
Development and validation of progressive web application usability heuristics (PWAUH)	15
Development and application of a communication robot to improve the emotional state of elderly living alone	15
Does Facebook use influence users’ psychological well-being (PWB)? A literature review on trends and psychological well-being effects of Facebook use	14
Can serious games measure your cognitive profile in adults? An innovative proposal to evaluate and stimulate cognitive skills	14
Robots for inclusive classrooms: a scoping review	13
Delving into the modeling and operation of energy communities as epicenters for systemic transformations	13
Omissions and inferential meaning-making in audio description, and implications for automating video content description	13
Assessing standards-driven accessibility in top video conferencing platforms	13
Beyond physical accessibility: a bibliometric analysis about the influence of digital communication and the use of technology on inclusive tourism in WCAG 3.0 era—tourism for all from a more accessibl	13
Teaching methodology for people with intellectual disabilities: a case study in learning ballet with mobile devices	13
Older adults’ user experience with introvert and extravert humanoid robot personalities	13
Web accessibility evaluation from the perception of people with disabilities: case of Argentina	12
Learning features and accessibility limitations of video conferencing applications: are people with visual impairment left behind	12
An inclusive framework for automated web content accessibility evaluation	12
Voicing barriers: accessibility for visually impaired voiceover users on audio chat platforms	12
Gender-sensitive tools and materials for women empowerment in STEM: a systematic review with industrial and instructional recommendations and implications	12
Eleuteria App: designing an interactive system to support individuals with mild intellectual disabilities	12
HCISLS: innovative sign language recognition system utilizing multi blocks convolutional method	11
Impact of COVID-19 in the web accessibility of higher education institutions: a pending challenge	11
Schools as living labs for the new European bauhaus	11
Diversity of experience: action, sensation, and immersion in audio descriptions of (visual) art	11
Analysis of instructors’ intention to use and experience of using cognitive training robots for older adults with mild cognitive impairment	11
The usability and user experience of an interactive e-learning platform to empower older adults when using electronic personal health records: an online intervention study	11
Challenges and recommendations for eHealth usability evaluation with elderly users: systematic review and case study	11
Accessibility barriers in arabic news websites for visually impaired users: a mixed-method evaluation approach	10
Examining generative AI user disclosure intention: an ELM perspective	10
Digital pedagogy in Indian sign language: requirement analysis and assistive technology based application	10
Beyond “do not touch”: the experience of a three-dimensional printed artifacts museum as an alternative to traditional museums for visitors who are blind and partially sighted	10
Visual authoring of virtual reality conversational scenarios for e-learning	10
The effective communication framework: a new approach to hearing assistive communication technologies	10
Video connecting families and social robots: from ideas to practices putting technology to work	10
Toward improved co-designing home care solutions based on personas and design thinking with older users	10
An Interaction Framework for Designing Systems for Virtual Home Assistants and People with Dysarthria	10
Large-scale study of web accessibility metrics	10

Tailoring assistive smart glasses according to pathologies of visually impaired individuals: an exploratory investigation on social needs and difficulties experienced by visually impaired individuals	9
Examining user switching between social Q&A platforms: a push–pull-mooring perspective	9
Somebody is watching me? Analyzing privacy preferences in using visual AAL technology considering human-, technology-, and context-related factors	9
A computational model for assisting individuals with suicidal ideation based on context histories	9
Correction to: Examining generative AI user disclosure intention: an ELM perspective	9
The evolution of video game accessibility on Xbox consoles in the Far Cry game series	9
Enhancing child-machine interaction for Indian children speaking English as non-native language using hybrid CNN and customized dictionary	8
Interactive communication in the process of physical education: are social media contributing to the improvement of physical training performance	8
Correction to: Machine translation from signed to spoken languages: state of the art and challenges	8
Usability of a telehealth solution based on TV interaction for the elderly: the VITASENIOR-MT case study	8
Multidimensional evaluation of teaching strategies adopted in the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Digital accessibility in disaster periods in Turkey: investigation of accessibility of web pages and mobile applications of the relevant organisations	8
Bridging the gap between website accessibility and lexicography: information access in online dictionaries	8
Human-chatbot interaction studies through the lens of bibliometric analysis	8
Usability in human-robot collaborative workspaces	7
Immersive learning in critical care: first experiences in Intensive Care Units for nursing students through low-cost virtual reality	7
A prototype real-time mobile application for Thai banknote recognition to support visually impaired persons	7
Systematic literature review of ambient assisted living systems supported by the Internet of Things	7
Optimizing inquiry-based science education: verifying the learning effectiveness of augmented reality and concept mapping in elementary school	7
Hand gesture recognition for user-defined textual inputs and gestures	7
VR multi-sensory Zaltman's metaphor elicitation technique: a new method for exploring the needs of older adults in social virtual reality	7
Unsupervised extraction of phonetic units in sign language videos for natural language processing	7
Readability of online government information about welfare rights and benefits: the Israeli case	7
Developing personas for live streaming commerce platforms with user survey data	6
Exploring the design and evaluation of social exergames for older adults: a systematic review	6
Gamification solutions for persons with disabilities: a systematic literature review	6
Evaluating the effectiveness of accessible websites for deaf users	6
Source code editor using voice commands to support people with motor disabilities	6
The puzzle of RehbeCa: an exergame for assessing cervicalgia	6
Turning manual web accessibility success criteria into automatic: an LLM-based approach	6
Use case modeling in a research setting of developing an innovative pilgrimage support system	6
Application of logistic regression to explain internet use among older adults: a review of the empirical literature	6
Flipped Learning 4.0. An extended flipped classroom model with Education 4.0 and organisational learning processes	6
A comparative study of existing smart hearing aids for partially hearing-impaired patients	6
Game-based collaborative decision-making training: a framework and behavior analysis for a remote collaborative decision-making skill training game using multidimensional scaffolding	6
Accessibility of drug information on ocular drug product websites in the United States	6
Human pose estimation solutions: a low cost tool for increasing natural interaction in virtual television sets	6
Senior-centered design for mobile medication adherence applications based on cognitive and technology attributes	6
Research and prospects of virtual reality systems applying exoskeleton technology	6
Accessibility of large events: an empirical study of the Expo 2020 Dubai	6