Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• Disability, Differences, and Diversity: Revisiting Inclusive Design and Access

  Himanshu Verma, Giulia Barbareschi, Sophia Ppali, Kathrin Gerling, Maartje De Meulder, Judith Good, Jatinder Singh, Katta Spiel, Abdallah El Ali, Marios Constantinides, Maristella Matera, Monica Perusquia-Hernandez, Hamed Alavi, Pablo Cesar, Alessandro Bozzon (2026) — Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '26) — Meetup

  This 2026 CHI EA meetup position paper — authored by 15 researchers across eleven European and Asian institutions — frames the current moment in accessibility as a policy-compliance inflection point and invites the HCI community to resist a complianc…

  • inclusive design
  • disability justice
  • accessibility policy
  • critical computing
  • ableism
  • European Accessibility Act
  • accessibility research
  • ethics
  • participatory design
  • aging
  • meetup

• Designing Socially Assistive Robots for Perinatal Depression Screening: Insights and Ethical Considerations from Two Exploratory Studies

  Mengyu Zhong, Lux Miranda, Fotios C. Papadopoulos, Katie Winkle, Alkistis Skalkidou, Ginevra Castellano (2026) — ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction

  This paper reports two exploratory studies investigating the use of Socially Assistive Robots (SARs) for Perinatal Depression (PND) screening. PND affects up to 10% of individuals during pregnancy or postpartum, yet 50% of antenatal depression cases …

  • socially assistive robots
  • mental health
  • perinatal depression
  • participatory design
  • human-robot interaction
  • ethics
  • healthcare technology
  • vulnerable populations
  • trustworthy AI

• Teaching Inclusive Thinking to Undergraduate Students in Computing Programs

  Stephanie Ludi, Matt Huenerfauth, Vicki Hanson, Nidhi Rajendra Palan, Paula Conn (2018) — SIGCSE '18: Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

  This paper investigates whether specific teaching interventions in undergraduate computing courses measurably increase students' accessibility awareness and inclusive thinking. The authors note that, while numerous accessibility teaching approaches h…

  • accessibility education
  • computer science education
  • inclusive design
  • HCI education
  • undergraduate teaching
  • empathy
  • ethics
  • curriculum design
  • attitudes toward disability

• Who Should Have Access to my Pointing Data? Privacy Tradeoffs of Adaptive Assistive Technologies

  Foad Hamidi, Kellie Poneres, Aaron Massey, Amy Hurst (2018) — Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2018)

  This UMBC study examines the often-overlooked privacy tradeoffs inherent in Adaptive Assistive Technologies (AATs) — software systems that monitor user performance data to automatically adapt their functionality. While AATs offer significant usabilit…

  • privacy
  • security
  • adaptive systems
  • assistive technology
  • essential tremor
  • older adults
  • pointing
  • motor impairment
  • threat modeling
  • ethics

• The potential of adaptive interfaces as an accessibility aid for older web users

  David Sloan, Matthew Tylee Atkinson, Colin Machin, Yunqiu Li (2010) — Proceedings of the 2010 International Cross Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper examines the challenge of supporting web accessibility for older people whose capabilities fluctuate gradually over time due to age-related decline in vision, hearing, dexterity, and cognition. The authors argue that current accessibility …

  • aging
  • adaptive interfaces
  • assistive technology
  • older users
  • personalization
  • user profiling
  • ethics
  • inclusive design

• Privacy Considerations of the Visually Impaired with Camera Based Assistive Technologies: Misrepresentation, Impropriety, and Fairness

  Taslima Akter, Tousif Ahmed, Apu Kapadia, Swami Manohar Swaminathan (2020) — Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2020)

  This paper investigates the privacy concerns of both visually impaired people (PVIs) and sighted bystanders regarding camera-based assistive technologies like smart glasses (Orcam, Aira, eSight) that can identify people and provide demographic and be…

  • visual accessibility
  • blindness and low vision
  • privacy
  • AI bias
  • AI fairness
  • computer vision
  • wearable technology
  • ethics
  • social accessibility

• Visual Content Considered Private by People Who are Blind

  Abigale Stangl, Kristina Shiroma, Bo Xie, Kenneth R. Fleischmann, Danna Gurari (2020) — Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2020)

  This paper presents the first empirical study investigating what types of visual content people who are blind consider private, in the context of their use of Visual Interpreters or Description Services (VIDS) — services like Seeing AI, Aira, Be My E…

  • visual accessibility
  • blindness and low vision
  • privacy
  • computer vision
  • artificial intelligence
  • ethics
  • assistive technology
  • data protection

• Sharing Practices for Datasets Related to Accessibility and Aging

  Rie Kamikubo, Utkarsh Dwivedi, Hernisa Kacorri (2021) — The 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2021)

  This paper presents a systematic review of 137 accessibility datasets collected from people with disabilities and older adults over a 35-year period (1984-2020). The authors undertook an extensive two-year search process using a multilayer strategy: …

  • datasets
  • machine learning
  • data sharing
  • privacy
  • ethics
  • bias mitigation
  • AI
  • disability data
  • aging
  • systematic review

• Regulating Personal Cameras for Disabled People and People with Deafblindness: Implications for HCI and Accessible Computing

  Sarah L. Woodin, Arthur Theil (2021) — Proceedings of the 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '21)

  This experience paper examines the intersection of social policy, privacy regulation, and assistive technology design, focusing on the case of personal cameras for people with deafblindness. Drawing from the EU-funded SUITCEYES project (2018-2021), t…

  • deafblindness
  • wearable cameras
  • face recognition
  • privacy
  • data protection
  • social policy
  • assistive technology
  • ethics
  • AI fairness
  • GDPR

• Participant Recruitment in Accessibility Research

  Lloyd May, Saad Hassan, Khang Dang, Sooyeon Lee, Oliver Alonzo (2025) — ASSETS 2025: 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This workshop paper addresses the critical but underexplored challenge of recruiting participants with disabilities for accessibility research. Grounded in the principle "Nothing about us without us," the paper argues that including people with disab…

  • research methods
  • participant recruitment
  • disability studies
  • ethics
  • intersectionality
  • accessibility research
  • community engagement
  • research ethics