Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
28 results found tagged autoethnography.
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Mixed Abilities and Varied Experiences: a group autoethnography of a virtual summer internship
This paper presents a group autoethnography of Microsoft Research's Ability Team during the summer 2020 virtual internship — the company's first all-remote intern cohort. Eleven team members (6 authors, 5 meta-authors) journaled their experiences ove…
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Chronically Under-Addressed: Considerations for HCI Accessibility Practice with Chronically Ill People
This paper argues that HCI accessibility research has largely overlooked people with chronic illnesses, typically approaching them through a medical lens focused on symptom tracking and treatment compliance rather than recognizing their broader acces…
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Depending on Independence: An Autoethnographic Account of Daily Use of Assistive Technologies
This experience report uses autoethnography to examine the daily realities of depending on assistive technologies (AT) from the first-person perspective of Felix Fussenegger, a person living with a high spinal cord injury (C6 level) resulting in comp…
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A Case for Improving the Accessibility of Electrical and Computer Engineering Education -- Starting with a Blind Student's Autoethnography
This short paper presents an autoethnographic account of Trisha Kulkarni, the first blind student to complete the introductory electrical and computer engineering (ECE) and making course (E40M) at Stanford University. The course is a required eight-t…
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Maintaining the Accessibility Ecosystem: a Multi-Stakeholder Analysis of Accessibility in Higher Education
This short paper examines how accessibility is created and maintained in higher education through the interactions of three key stakeholder groups: disabled students, professors, and disability service (DS) offices. The author team—comprising disable…
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An Autoethnographic Case Study of Generative Artificial Intelligence's Utility for Accessibility
This paper presents an autoethnographic case study in which seven accessibility researchers—both with and without disabilities—explored generative artificial intelligence (GAI) tools over a three-month period to assess their potential for supporting …
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Banal Autistic Social Media: A Found Footage Autoethnography
This position paper argues for designing social media platforms that support thriving neurodiverse online communities, moving beyond deficit-focused approaches that treat autistic users as needing to be "fixed" to match neurotypical social norms. The…
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"I Am Human, Just Like You": What Intersectional, Neurodivergent Lived Experiences Bring to Accessibility Research
This paper uses critical autoethnography to examine how intersectional identities shape the experience of neurodivergence, drawing on the author's personal journey of discovering, accepting, and valuing their autism and ADHD diagnoses as a cisgender,…
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Not a "Typical Expat": An Autoethnographic Account on Accessible Relocation
This experience report presents an autoethnographic account of the first author Zeynep Yildiz’s relocation from Turkey to Germany as a postdoctoral researcher with a mobility disability caused by a rare myopathy. Using reflexive thematic analysis of …
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Sonic Agency: A Group Autoethnography of Technology-mediated Performance Practice by Deaf and Hard of Hearing Musicians
This paper presents a 15-month group autoethnography conducted by a mixed-hearing team of five researchers and musicians affiliated with CymaSpace, a Deaf-owned music and culture institution in Portland, Oregon. The study examines how d/Deaf and Hard…