Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
34 results found tagged dementia.
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Collaborative AI Scaffolding for Structured Drawing in Dementia Care: A Feasibility Study
This CHI 2026 Extended Abstract reports a one-on-one feasibility study of a tablet-based AI drawing tool for older adults with dementia, conducted at a day-care centre in Taiwan. The system pairs a Google Gemini vision-language model (VLM) with Azure…
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Shared Stories, Shared Bonds: People with Dementia Exploring Generative AI Together
This paper reports on a qualitative workshop study examining how people living with mild to moderate dementia engage with three generative AI tools - Microsoft Copilot (text), Midjourney (images), and Suno (music) - in a group setting, and what forms…
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Let's Make a Community [of Practice]: Using Community-Based Participatory Design to Support Interdependence
Accessibility and HCI research on dementia has moved away from the medical-model framing of 'recipients of care' toward dementia-friendly communities, interdependence, and person-centred support. But Czech and colleagues note a gap: most of this work…
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Challenges in Automatic Speech Recognition for Adults with Cognitive Impairment
This CHI 2026 paper quantifies how well state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) handles voice commands produced by older adults with cognitive impairment, and asks which acoustic features actually predict transcription accuracy. The autho…
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The EasyCog Dataset: Towards Easier Cognitive Assessment with Passive Video Watching
This paper introduces EasyCog, the first large-scale multimodal dataset designed for low-burden, low-cost cognitive assessment using passive visual engagement. The core motivation is to address well-documented limitations of standard clinical cogniti…
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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…
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Robot Characters: Co-Designing Dynamic Personalities for Cognitively Assistive Robots
The paper introduces the concept of a "robot character" — a holistic, context-sensitive framing of robot personality that extends beyond trait-based models such as Big Five by incorporating shared interests, cultural background, lived experiences, an…
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Providing Good Memory Cues for People with Episodic Memory Impairment
This paper from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University presents two studies investigating how caregivers use cues to support episodic memory recollection in people with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and what types of cues a…
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Networked Reminiscence Therapy for Individuals with Dementia by Using Photo and Video Sharing
This paper presents a networked reminiscence therapy system that enables remote delivery of therapy to people with dementia using IP videophones combined with web-based photo and video sharing. Reminiscence therapy — where a therapist uses photos, ob…
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Requirements Gathering with Alzheimer's Patients and Caregivers
This paper presents a requirements gathering study for an information appliance designed to alleviate repetitive questioning behaviour in people with Alzheimer's disease (AD), a leading cause of caregiver stress. The interdisciplinary team from Dalho…