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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
An instrument for the determination of learning objects quality for students with visual impairment integrating the services theory (ILOBlind)	86
Falling through the net again: exploring the characteristics of internet dropout in China	83
An audio MOOC framework for the digital inclusion of low literate people in the distance education process	57
Evaluating an accessibility intervention based on persona cards with diverse needs to teach accessibility to undergraduate students	50
A framework to improve the accessibility of social media account content	48
What do faculty members know about universal design and digital accessibility? A qualitative study in computer science and engineering disciplines	35
Ratings and experiences in using a mobile application to increase physical activity among university students: implications for future design	31
Universal access in the information Society (2001–2021): knowledge, experience, challenges and new perspectives	30
Analysis of the accessibility of selected massive open online courses (MOOCs) for users with disabilities	30
Factors influencing intention to engage in human–chatbot interaction: examining user perceptions and context culture orientation	29
Evaluating the accessibility and performance of government websites in Nigeria	26
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	25
Conceptualization and survey instrument development for mobile application usability	24
Participation in crowdsourcing micro-tasks: what motivates brazilian older adults?	23
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	19
Web accessibility and inclusivity of tourist destinations at social media management. An intercultural analysis of Andalusia and Northern Morocco	19
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	19
Accessibility first: detecting frustration in web browsing for visually impaired and sighted smartphone users	19
Dynamic detection of accessibility smells	18
Untangling factors influencing social networking sites use among older adults: a literature review	18
Accessibility of public library websites in the United States	18
Establishing the connection between speech-language pathologists and technology developers in designing novel textile-based AAC (TAAC) technologies	18
An assistive technology based on Peirce’s semiotics for the inclusive education of deaf and hearing children	17
Assessing touchscreen operations under vibration: effects of vibrational environments, button size, and button spacing on digit- and letter-entry task performance	17

Responsive inclusive design (RiD): a new model for inclusive software development	16
Decreasing user engagement in clickbait: an ERP study on the effectiveness of warning labels in online platform	16
Do sentiments of professors feedback change after migrating from in-person to online modalities? Pre- and during COVID-19 experience	15
Usability and accessibility-based quality evaluation of Indian airline websites: An MCDM approach	15
Exploring an intelligent product service system for early cognitive intervention for Alzheimer’s disease	15
Adoption of artificial intelligence artifacts: a literature review	15
Analysis of the digital accessibility of selected Polish government portals for persons with disabilities	15
Optimizing a digital health education platform for the elderly: influences on annotation and interaction design	14
Mobile learning for hearing-impaired children: Review and analysis	14
A software acceptance testing approach with accessibility for the deaf	14
Neural machine translation from text to sign language	13
Development and validation of progressive web application usability heuristics (PWAUH)	13
Continued usage intention of novice and expert players in social network games	13
Development and application of a communication robot to improve the emotional state of elderly living alone	12
Delving into the mental access of using digital public services in later life - peer tutors’ perspective	12
Learning features and accessibility limitations of video conferencing applications: are people with visual impairment left behind	12
Assessing standards-driven accessibility in top video conferencing platforms	12
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	12
An inclusive framework for automated web content accessibility evaluation	12
Enhancing quality of life for the hearing-impaired: a holistic approach through the MoSIoT framework	12
Does Facebook use influence users’ psychological well-being (PWB)? A literature review on trends and psychological well-being effects of Facebook use	11
Can serious games measure your cognitive profile in adults? An innovative proposal to evaluate and stimulate cognitive skills	11
AET tool for hybrid accessibility evaluation	11
Older adults’ user experience with introvert and extravert humanoid robot personalities	11
Robots for inclusive classrooms: a scoping review	11
Teaching methodology for people with intellectual disabilities: a case study in learning ballet with mobile devices	11
Exploring factors affecting consumers' adoption of wearable devices to track health data	11
Omissions and inferential meaning-making in audio description, and implications for automating video content description	11
Delving into the modeling and operation of energy communities as epicenters for systemic transformations	11
Voicing barriers: accessibility for visually impaired voiceover users on audio chat platforms	11
Universal and ecological design in media accessibility: finding common ground	11
Designing accessible visual programming tools for children with autism spectrum condition	10
Diversity of experience: action, sensation, and immersion in audio descriptions of (visual) art	10
The effective communication framework: a new approach to hearing assistive communication technologies	10
Challenges and recommendations for eHealth usability evaluation with elderly users: systematic review and case study	10
HCISLS: innovative sign language recognition system utilizing multi blocks convolutional method	10
Web accessibility evaluation from the perception of people with disabilities: case of Argentina	10
Gender-sensitive tools and materials for women empowerment in STEM: a systematic review with industrial and instructional recommendations and implications	10
An Interaction Framework for Designing Systems for Virtual Home Assistants and People with Dysarthria	10
Visual authoring of virtual reality conversational scenarios for e-learning	9
The evolution of video game accessibility on Xbox consoles in the Far Cry game series	9
Analysis of instructors’ intention to use and experience of using cognitive training robots for older adults with mild cognitive impairment	9
Impact of COVID-19 in the web accessibility of higher education institutions: a pending challenge	9
Video connecting families and social robots: from ideas to practices putting technology to work	9
Accessibility barriers in arabic news websites for visually impaired users: a mixed-method evaluation approach	9
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	9
Examining generative AI user disclosure intention: an ELM perspective	9
Schools as living labs for the new European bauhaus	9
Accessible wayfinding and navigation: a systematic mapping study	9
Toward improved co-designing home care solutions based on personas and design thinking with older users	9

Digital pedagogy in Indian sign language: requirement analysis and assistive technology based application	9
Large-scale study of web accessibility metrics	9
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	9
Multidimensional evaluation of teaching strategies adopted in the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Tailoring assistive smart glasses according to pathologies of visually impaired individuals: an exploratory investigation on social needs and difficulties experienced by visually impaired individuals	8
Bridging the gap between website accessibility and lexicography: information access in online dictionaries	8
Somebody is watching me? Analyzing privacy preferences in using visual AAL technology considering human-, technology-, and context-related factors	8
Correction to: Examining generative AI user disclosure intention: an ELM perspective	8
A computational model for assisting individuals with suicidal ideation based on context histories	8
Human-chatbot interaction studies through the lens of bibliometric analysis	8
Examining user switching between social Q&A platforms: a push–pull-mooring perspective	8
Digital accessibility in disaster periods in Turkey: investigation of accessibility of web pages and mobile applications of the relevant organisations	7
Usability of a telehealth solution based on TV interaction for the elderly: the VITASENIOR-MT case study	7
Optimizing inquiry-based science education: verifying the learning effectiveness of augmented reality and concept mapping in elementary school	7
Correction to: Machine translation from signed to spoken languages: state of the art and challenges	7
The impact of reading fluency level on interactive information retrieval	7
Enhancing child-machine interaction for Indian children speaking English as non-native language using hybrid CNN and customized dictionary	7
Readability of online government information about welfare rights and benefits: the Israeli case	6
Usability in human-robot collaborative workspaces	6
Developing personas for live streaming commerce platforms with user survey data	6
Evaluating the effectiveness of accessible websites for deaf users	6
Turning manual web accessibility success criteria into automatic: an LLM-based approach	6
Hand gesture recognition for user-defined textual inputs and gestures	6
A prototype real-time mobile application for Thai banknote recognition to support visually impaired persons	6
An analysis of the utility of digital materials for high school students with intellectual disability and their effects on academic success	6
Systematic literature review of ambient assisted living systems supported by the Internet of Things	6
Use case modeling in a research setting of developing an innovative pilgrimage support system	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
VR multi-sensory Zaltman's metaphor elicitation technique: a new method for exploring the needs of older adults in social virtual reality	6
Interactive communication in the process of physical education: are social media contributing to the improvement of physical training performance	6
Customized daltonization: adaptation of different image types for observers with different severities of color vision deficiencies	6
Application of logistic regression to explain internet use among older adults: a review of the empirical literature	6
Unsupervised extraction of phonetic units in sign language videos for natural language processing	6