Literature Reviews — A11y Paradise

Designing Spellcasters from Clinician Perspectives: A Customizable Gesture-Based Immersive Virtual Reality Game for Stroke Rehabilitation

Jared Duval, Rutul Thakkar, Delong Du, Kassandra Chin, Sherry Luo, Aviv Elor, Magy Seif El-Nasr, Michael John (2022) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

This research presents Spellcasters, an immersive virtual reality game adapted from entertainment for stroke rehabilitation. More than 800,000 people suffer strokes annually in the US, with two-thirds requiring rehabilitation. Stroke survivors often …

Towards Efficacy-Centered Game Design Patterns For Brain Injury Rehabilitation: A Data-Driven Approach

Jinghui Cheng, Cynthia Putnam, Doris C. Rusch (2015) — ASSETS '15: Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility

This paper presents a data-driven methodology for generating game design patterns specific to brain injury (BI) rehabilitation, addressing a communication gap between game designers and therapists. Brain injury affects approximately 6.4 million US ch…

ARMStrokes: A Mobile App for Everyday Stroke Rehabilitation

Jin Guo, Ted Smith, David Messing, Ziying Tang, Sonia Lawson, Jinjuan Heidi Feng (2015) — ASSETS '15: Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility

This paper presents ARMStrokes, an iPhone application that enables stroke survivors to perform upper extremity rehabilitation exercises anywhere and anytime using only built-in smartphone sensors. Stroke affects over 795,000 Americans annually and of…

Making "Making" Accessible

Amy Hurst (2018) — Proceedings of the 15th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

This keynote abstract presents Amy Hurst's research program on making DIY (Do-It-Yourself) assistive technology creation accessible to end-users, clinicians, and caregivers. The talk addresses a fundamental problem: a large percentage of assistive te…

Creating 3D Printed Assistive Technology Through Design Shortcuts: Leveraging Digital Fabrication Services to Incorporate 3D Printing into the Physical Therapy Classroom

Erin Higgins, William Berkley Easley, Karen L. Gordes, Amy Hurst, Foad Hamidi (2022) — Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

This paper investigates how to integrate 3D printing into physical therapy (PT) education without requiring PT students to become experts in CAD or digital fabrication. Previous research showed that while 3D printing has great potential for creating …

Reimagining Machine Learning's Role in Assistive Technology by Co-Designing Exergames with Children Using a Participatory Machine Learning Design Probe

Jared Duval, Laia Turmo Vidal, Elena Márquez Segura, Yinchu Li, Annika Waern (2023) — Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2023)

This paper fundamentally reframes the role of machine learning in assistive technology, arguing that ML models do not need to be accurate to be valuable — they can serve as sources of play and motivation rather than diagnostic tools. The researchers …