Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• A Pool of Representative Users for Accessibility Research: Seeing through the Eyes of the Users

  Marianne Dee, Vicki L. Hanson (2016) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

  This paper documents the establishment, management, and lessons learned from the SiDE (Social Inclusion through the Digital Economy) User Pool, a large participant pool of over 800 older adults created at the University of Dundee to support accessibi…

  • research methods
  • participant recruitment
  • older adults
  • user pool
  • accessibility research
  • digital inclusion
  • vulnerable populations
  • ethics

• Fairness Issues in AI Systems that Augment Sensory Abilities

  Leah Findlater, Steven Goodman, Yuhang Zhao, Shiri Azenkot, Margot Hanley (2020) — SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing

  This paper examines the unique fairness challenges that arise when AI systems are used to augment sensory abilities for people with disabilities — a context distinct from other AI applications because these systems provide information that is already…

  • AI fairness
  • sensory augmentation
  • visual impairment
  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • privacy
  • object recognition
  • sound awareness
  • algorithmic bias
  • ethics

• Fairness of AI for People with Disabilities: Problem Analysis and Interdisciplinary Collaboration

  Jason J. G. White (2020) — SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing

  This paper provides a philosophical analysis of the fairness challenges that machine learning-based AI poses for people with disabilities, arguing that these challenges demand unprecedented interdisciplinary collaboration across applied ethics, human…

  • AI fairness
  • algorithmic bias
  • disability
  • social justice
  • ethics
  • machine learning
  • policy
  • underrepresentation

• Ethical Concerns when Working with Mixed-Ability Groups of Children

  Ana O. Henriques, Patricia Piedade, Filipa Rocha, Isabel Neto, Hugo Nicolau (2024) — Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '24)

  This paper critically examines the ethical challenges researchers face when conducting studies involving mixed-ability groups of children — groups that include both children with and without disabilities working together. The authors draw on two case…

  • ethics
  • mixed-ability groups
  • children
  • participatory design
  • inclusive research
  • human-computer interaction
  • human-robot interaction