Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
20 results found tagged HCI.
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Turning the Knobs of Musical Emotion: Designing Emotion-Oriented Audio Control Interface for Cochlear Implant Users
Kim, Song, and Lee (KAIST) tackle a persistent but under-designed problem in hearing accessibility: cochlear implant (CI) users can hear music but receive it in a spectrally coarse, pitch-degraded form that blunts emotional perception. Rather than pu…
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Supporting Money Management among Adults with Down Syndrome: A Multi-Technology Probe Study
Johnson, Spalitta, Kim, and Mutlu designed three cash-based budgeting technology probes for adults with Down syndrome (AwDS) and ran a comparative usage study with seven participants aged 19-39. The work is motivated by a gap between special-educatio…
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Designing a Generative AI-Assisted Music Psychotherapy Tool for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Individuals
Choi and colleagues designed, built, and evaluated a generative-AI music psychotherapy tool co-designed with licensed Korean music therapists for deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) users. The work is motivated by the observation that music psychotherapy …
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Creating Disability Story Videos with Generative AI: Motivation, Expression, and Sharing
Niu, Clements, and Kim worked with nine people with disabilities (PwDs) from a Massachusetts disability advocacy group (pseudonymized as 'Campaign') to study how novice users adopt generative AI for creating first-person disability storytelling video…
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Co-Design of Technology with and for People with Intellectual Disabilities: A Scoping Review of Methods and Inclusion Strategies
This scoping review examines how people with Intellectual Disabilities (ID) and their support networks have been involved in the co-design of technology, addressing a persistent gap: despite HCI's growing emphasis on inclusive design, people with ID …
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The Three Praxes Framework — A Thematic Review and Map of Social Accessibility Research
This CHI 2026 paper by Jang, Carrington, and Begel (Carnegie Mellon) offers a thematic review and conceptual map of fifteen years of "social accessibility" research in HCI—the body of work, inaugurated by Shinohara and Wobbrock in 2011, that studies …
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Rethinking Interdependence in HCI: A Systematic Literature Review for Understanding its Use in Accessibility Studies
This paper presents a PRISMA-guided systematic literature review of 70 HCI accessibility papers that engage with the concept of interdependence, examining how the field has conceptualized and applied it. The authors started from 894 papers in the ACM…
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Affective Wearable Haptic Interventions: A Systematic Literature Review
This systematic literature review synthesises 83 empirical studies on affective wearable haptic interventions published between 2010 and 2025, drawn from 1,098 articles identified in ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore. The review maps the design spa…
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Towards Understanding the Effect of Serious Games on Attention, Adherence, and Behavior for Children with ADHD
This paper investigates how serious games designed to help children with ADHD impact their attention, adherence, and daily behaviour in real-world home settings. Conducted in two stages, the study first involved nine educators working with children i…
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Exploring the Role of Generative AI in Dementia Resilience Building Activities: Uncovering Opportunities and Challenges
This qualitative HCI study examines how people with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and mild-to-moderate dementia envision using commercially available generative AI applications in everyday life. Rather than designing for this population from the ou…