Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
46 results found tagged generative AI.
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Robot-Assisted Social Dining as a White Glove Service
This CHI 2026 paper addresses a gap in the robot-assisted feeding literature: existing systems are almost exclusively evaluated in the lab or the home for solitary dining, leaving public, social contexts such as restaurants largely unstudied. The aut…
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Harmonizing the Senses: Designing a Cross-Modal Interactive Art System to Enhance Older Adults' Affective Experiences
This CHI 2026 paper investigates how cross-modal correspondence and congruency across visual, auditory, and kinetic modalities shape older adults' affective experiences in digital art systems, and how an AI-infused drawing mode can scaffold those exp…
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Designing a Generative AI-Assisted Music Psychotherapy Tool for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Individuals
Choi and colleagues designed, built, and evaluated a generative-AI music psychotherapy tool co-designed with licensed Korean music therapists for deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) users. The work is motivated by the observation that music psychotherapy …
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Creating Disability Story Videos with Generative AI: Motivation, Expression, and Sharing
Niu, Clements, and Kim worked with nine people with disabilities (PwDs) from a Massachusetts disability advocacy group (pseudonymized as 'Campaign') to study how novice users adopt generative AI for creating first-person disability storytelling video…
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Beyond Descriptions: A Generative Scene2Audio Framework for Blind and Low-Vision Users to Experience Vista Landscapes
Scene description apps (Seeing AI, Be My AI, Envision) do a reasonable job of telling blind and low-vision (BLV) users what is in front of them, but they are built for utility - 'there is a chair'. They fail at the aesthetic, leisure, emotional exper…
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Lost in Instructions: Study of Blind Users' Experiences with DIY Manuals and AI-Rewritten Instructions for Assembly, Operation, and Troubleshooting of Tangible Products
Blind users increasingly reach for AI tools like Be My AI (Be My Eyes' GPT-4-powered assistant) and ChatGPT to interpret the printed and PDF product manuals that accompany consumer goods - flat-pack furniture, alarm clocks, timers, ring lights, smart…
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"I Don't Trust it, but I Use it": Navigating Trust, Privacy, and Identity in Disabled People's Use of Generative AI
This CHI 2026 paper reports a qualitative focus-group study of how disabled people navigate generative AI (GenAI) tools in everyday life, with particular attention to how trust, privacy, and intersecting identities (race, gender, language, sexuality,…
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Scaffolding Metacognition with GenAI: Exploring Design Opportunities to Support Task Management for University Students with ADHD
This paper applies a metacognitive lens to academic task management for university students with ADHD, asking how Generative AI (GenAI) tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude could scaffold the awareness and regulation of one's own thinking processes…
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μCap: Instrumental Music Captions for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Individuals
Ahn and colleagues introduce μCap (Music Captions), an automatic captioning system that makes instrumental music accessible to Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) audiences by producing time-aligned, non-lexical textual renderings — syllable-like strings …
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Do-It-Yourself AAC: Co-Designing User-Programmable AI Communication Tools with People with Aphasia
Lee and Valencia explore how people with aphasia (PWA) can become designers of their own AI-powered augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) tools rather than users of rigid, pre-built systems. The authors note that aphasia, a language disord…