Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
20 results found tagged HCI.
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Adaptive and Storytelling Practices of Panamanian Autism Families: Towards Culturally-Situated Digital Storytelling
This PACM HCI (GROUP) paper presents a formative, culturally-situated design study with eight Panamanian mothers of autistic individuals (ages 3–27) to understand the resource barriers autism families face in Panamá and the role storytelling plays in…
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“I’ve Become More Myself”: Challenges and Benefits of Engaging with ADHD Short-Form Video Content and Communities
This qualitative interview study explores how 32 adult ADHDers relate to ADHD-focused Short-Form Video Content (SFVC) on TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. The lead author — herself an ADHDer and SFVC user — uses reflexive thematic analysis…
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A3: A Coding Guideline for HCI+Autism Research Using Video Annotation
This paper presents A3 (Annotation for ASD Analysis), a systematic coding guideline developed through cross-disciplinary collaboration between computer scientists, special educators, and speech and hearing scientists at the University of Illinois. Th…
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How Do Professionals Who Create Computing Technologies Consider Accessibility?
This paper presents survey findings about how UX and HCI professionals consider accessibility in their work, based on responses from 199 participants representing a wide range of job titles and nationalities (recruited via IxDA, SIGCHI, and UPA chann…
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Goal Crossing with Mice and Trackballs for People with Motor Impairments: Performance, Submovements, and Design Directions
This study investigates whether goal crossing—an input technique where users move through a target boundary rather than clicking within it—can benefit people with motor impairments. The research compares crossing performance against traditional area …
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Computers and People with Disabilities
This is a 2008 reprint of a landmark 1992 Communications of the ACM article that issued a "call-to-arms" for research on computers and people with disabilities. Glinert and York argued that human-computer interfaces systematically failed to account f…
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An Equitable Experience? How HCI Research Conceptualizes Accessibility of Virtual Reality in the Context of Disability
This paper critically examines how the HCI and accessibility research community conceptualizes VR accessibility for disabled people. Through a systematic literature review of 28 papers (2018-2024), the authors investigate two questions: how accessibi…
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Cross-Cultural Web Design Guidelines
This paper develops evidence-based cross-cultural web design guidelines that go beyond simple language translation to address culturally specific design preferences in layout, navigation, links, multimedia, visual representation, colour, and text. Th…
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The Reliability of Fitts's Law as a Movement Model for People with and without Limited Fine Motor Function
This paper investigates a foundational assumption in HCI and assistive technology research: that Fitts's law reliably measures pointing performance. Fitts's law, introduced in 1954, models the relationship between the time to complete a pointing move…
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A Large-Scale Mixed-Methods Analysis of Blind and Low-vision Research in ACM and IEEE
This paper provides the most comprehensive mapping to date of research on technology for blind and low-vision (BLV) people published across ACM and IEEE venues between 2010 and 2022. The authors combined quantitative bibliometric methods — specifical…