Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
28 results found tagged disability justice.
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Rethinking Interdependence in HCI: A Systematic Literature Review for Understanding its Use in Accessibility Studies
This paper presents a PRISMA-guided systematic literature review of 70 HCI accessibility papers that engage with the concept of interdependence, examining how the field has conceptualized and applied it. The authors started from 894 papers in the ACM…
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Robot Characters: Co-Designing Dynamic Personalities for Cognitively Assistive Robots
The paper introduces the concept of a "robot character" — a holistic, context-sensitive framing of robot personality that extends beyond trait-based models such as Big Five by incorporating shared interests, cultural background, lived experiences, an…
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Rhetoric vs Responsibility: How Tech Companies Shape AI for Accessibility
Marathe, Zhou, Mishra, and Piper conduct a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of 126 public-facing blog posts and news articles published between 2016 and 2025 by 11 leading U.S.-based AI companies — Adobe, Amazon, Apple, Eleven Labs, Google, Meta, Mi…
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Race, Disability, and Technology: A Call to Action for Accessibility Researchers
This paper presents a framework for accessibility researchers to meaningfully engage with race and disability as intersecting identity dimensions. Building on Kimberlé Crenshaw's foundational work on intersectionality—which originated to address how …
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Interdependence as a Frame for Assistive Technology Research and Design
This influential paper introduces interdependence as a complementary frame to the traditional focus on independence in assistive technology research and design. The authors argue that "independence" — long the unquestioned gold standard of AT design …
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Prefigurative Politics and Passionate Witnessing
This experience report traces the unlikely partnership between two researchers — Rua Williams, an autistic disability studies scholar and activist, and LouAnne Boyd, a former behaviour therapist turned HCI researcher — whose work initially placed the…
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Understanding the Role of Socio-Technical Infrastructures on the Organization of Access for the Mixed-Ability Collaborators
This doctoral consortium paper presents a PhD research agenda investigating how socio-technical infrastructures shape the negotiation and distribution of access for mixed-ability collaborators. Yıldız draws on the Social Model of Disability and Socia…
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Understanding Social and Environmental Factors to Enable Collective Access Approaches to the Design of Captioning Technology
This doctoral consortium paper presents a dissertation research program that reimagines how captioning technology should be designed by applying the disability justice principle of collective access — the idea that accessibility is a shared responsib…
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Tackling the Lack of a Practical Guide in Disability-Centered Research
This workshop paper proposes a structured effort to develop a practical guide for conducting disability-centered accessibility research. The authors — a team of eight researchers across multiple institutions, several of whom are disabled scholars — a…
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"I'm treating it kind of like a diary": Characterizing How Users with Disabilities Use AI Chatbots
This study investigates how people with disabilities actually use LLM-based chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity in their daily lives. While previous research has focused primarily on identifying harms that LLMs impose on the disabil…