Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
19 results found tagged cognitive disability.
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Using In-Situ Projection to Support Cognitively Impaired Workers at the Workplace
This research investigates whether projecting assembly instructions directly onto a workspace (in-situ projection) can help cognitively impaired workers complete more complex tasks compared to traditional pictorial instructions. The work addresses a …
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Inclusion and Education: 3D Printing for Integrated Classrooms
This research addresses the severe employment gap facing adults with intellectual disabilities (ID)—over 60% unemployment versus roughly 25% for the general population—by exploring whether 3D printing skills can be taught in integrated postsecondary …
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User Participation When Users have Mental and Cognitive Disabilities
This paper describes methods developed to enable meaningful participation in ICT research by people with mental and cognitive disabilities—a population often excluded from user studies. Over 100 participants with conditions including depression, anxi…
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How Online Tests Contribute to the Support System for People With Cognitive and Mental Disabilities
Approximately one in three people worldwide experience a cognitive or mental disability at some point in their lives, yet significant barriers — cost, lack of insurance, transportation, stigma, family resistance, and not knowing where to seek help — …
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Cognitive Function vs. Accessible Authentication: Insights from Dyslexia Research
This paper explores the accessibility challenges that password-based authentication poses to people with dyslexia, arguing that accessibility is a neglected third dimension alongside the well-studied security and usability considerations. The authors…
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AT@Work: Intelligent Assistive Technologies for Enabling Workplace Inclusion
This workshop paper examines the role of digital assistive technologies (ATs) in advancing vocational inclusion for people with disabilities. Despite increasing policy efforts such as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabi…
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A Review of 25 Years of Human-Computer Interaction Research on Reading Support Technologies for People with Disabilities Published in the ACM Digital Library
This systematic literature review analyzes 101 HCI publications from ACM venues spanning 2000 to 2024 that focus on reading support technologies for people with disabilities. The authors developed a comprehensive coding rubric covering publication me…
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Pictures in Your Mind: Using Interactive Gesture-Controlled Reliefs to Explore Art
This paper presents an interactive audio guide (IAG) system that combines 3D-printed tactile reliefs with gesture-controlled, location-dependent audio descriptions to make visual art accessible to blind, visually impaired, and cognitively disabled us…
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Artificial Intelligence and the Dignity of Risk
This paper examines the dual risks and opportunities that AI-based systems pose for people with cognitive disabilities, framed around the concept of the "dignity of risk" — the right to make self-directed choices about tradeoffs between risks and ben…