Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
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Augmenting Imagery with Multimodal Vibrotactile Representations: Touch, Feel, and Hear
This CHI 2026 paper addresses a long-standing gap in image accessibility for blind and visually impaired (BVI) users: while alt text, sonification, tactile graphics, and refreshable Braille displays convey shape, layout, and identity, they rarely com…
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Reimagining Wearable AR Gesture Design: Physical Therapy Reasoning in Everyday Contexts
This CHI 2026 paper reimagines gesture vocabularies for lightweight, everyday augmented reality (AR) glasses — the emerging category of optical see-through wearables (e.g., Snap Spectacles, Meta Orion, Ray-Ban Meta) that are entering consumer and wor…
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"It Depends": Re-Authoring Play Through Clinical Reasoning in Wearable AR Rehab Games
This CHI 2026 paper examines how lightweight, glasses-form-factor augmented reality (AR) rehabilitation games can be translated from laboratory prototypes into everyday physical therapy (PT) practice. The authors argue that most AR rehab research has…
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Looking Beyond the Screen to Study the Technology Use of Older People Experiencing Cognitive Concerns
This CHI 2026 paper is a week-long qualitative study of how ten older adults with cognitive concerns — nine with Subjective Cognitive Decline (SCD) and one with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), ages 50s–80s, six Mandarin-speaking — use videoconferenc…
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EmojiFan: Designing A Social Interface Supporting Facial Expression Interaction for Blind and Low Vision People in Party Settings
This CHI 2026 paper presents EmojiFan, an AI-assisted wearable prototype designed to help blind and low-vision (BLV) adults participate in facial-expression interactions in party settings — a social context the authors identify as particularly hostil…
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From Autonomy to Sovereignty — A New Telos for Socially Assistive Technology
This CHI 2026 theory paper argues that assistive-technology (AT) research has long treated 'independence' as its primary goal — a framing codified in the 1988 U.S. Technology-Related Assistance Act — even though disabled people's lived experience is …
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Like, Comment & Caption: A Decade of Social Media Video Caption Research (2015-2025)
This CHI 2026 paper is a systematic literature review of 36 peer-reviewed studies on Social Media Video Captions (SMVC) published between 2015 and 2025, spanning HCI, accessibility, media studies, education, and language learning. The authors use 'SM…
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Toward Independent Online Shopping of the Visually Impaired Through Voice-based Computer-Using Agent
This CHI 2026 paper investigates how visually impaired users might shop online independently by interacting with a voice-based Computer-Using Agent (CUA) — an AI agent built on a Large Multimodal Model (LMM) that can perceive a screen, reason about i…
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"I followed what felt right, not what I was told": Autonomy, Coaching, and Recognizing Bias Through AI-Mediated Dialogue
This CHI 2026 experimental study tests whether brief AI-mediated dialogue can shift people's recognition of ableist microaggressions, and whether the direction of AI coaching (biased, inclusive, or absent) changes the nature of that shift. The author…
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Exploring AI Opportunities in Deaf Education: Understanding Design Needs Through Teacher and Parent Perspectives in Bangladesh
This CHI 2026 qualitative study investigates how AI-powered educational tools should be designed for Deaf learners in Bangladesh — a low-resource context where Bangla Sign Language (BdSL) is still evolving, datasets are small, and infrastructure (int…