Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
20 results found tagged special education.
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CollaDrum: Designing a Tangible Interactive Sonic System to Foster Collaboration in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
CollaDrum is a co-designed tangible sonic system intended to scaffold task-based peer collaboration for autistic children in classroom settings, with explicit attention to not adding cognitive overhead from novel interaction paradigms. The authors in…
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LingoLift: Supporting Educators in Personalized Oral Language Teaching for Autistic Children through Content Generation
This CHI 2026 paper presents LingoLift, a generative AI system that supports special-education teachers and speech-language pathologists in preparing and delivering personalized oral language lessons for autistic children. The authors argue that exis…
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GenRole: Personalizing Role Play for Educators Supporting Autistic Students' Social Interaction Learning
This CHI 2026 paper introduces GenRole, a generative-AI system that helps educators build personalised role-play activities for teaching social interaction skills to autistic children. Motivated by the gap between role-play as a well-evidenced teachi…
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Belonging in the Making: Investigating Inclusive Makerspace Design for Youth with Autism
Zhang, Sakowicz, Wingeart, and Hamidi investigate how makerspaces — the hands-on, technology-rich learning environments that have become common in libraries, schools, and community centres — can be designed to genuinely include youth with autism, rat…
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ZigAlert: A ZigBee Alert for Toileting Training Children with Developmental Delay in a Public School Setting
This short paper presents ZigAlert, a wireless sensor network system based on ZigBee technology designed to assist with toilet training for children with severe developmental delays in a public school setting. The system addresses a practical challen…
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ZigADL: An ADL Training System Enabling Teachers to Assist Children with Intellectual Disabilities
This poster paper presents ZigADL, a wireless sensor network system based on ZigBee technology designed to assist teachers in training children with severe intellectual disabilities to perform Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) independently. The syst…
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Detecting Hunchback Behavior in Autistic Children with Smart Phone Assistive Devices
This short demonstration paper presents a low-cost assistive system that uses a smartphone's built-in accelerometer to detect hunchback posture in an autistic student at the Kaohsiung Municipal Renwu Special Education School (KRSES) in Taiwan. The st…
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Detecting the Hand-Mouthing Behavior of Children with Intellectual Disability Using Kinect Imaging Technology
This short paper presents a system that uses Microsoft Kinect depth-sensing technology to automatically detect hand-mouthing behavior in children with severe intellectual disabilities. Hand-mouthing — the repetitive placement of fingers into the mout…
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Coming to Grips: 3D Printing for Accessibility
This demonstration paper presents a case study of using consumer-grade 3D printing to create custom assistive devices for a student with limited hand motor ability at a special education facility. The work grew out of a six-month evaluation of making…
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ABC and 3D: Opportunities and Obstacles to 3D Printing in Special Education Environments
This paper presents a formative study exploring how 3D printing can support special education across three diverse sites: a school for students with moderate to severe cognitive disabilities (Site A), a school for blind and visually impaired students…