Literature Reviews

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

• A Proxy Stakeholder Approach to Requirements Engineering for Inclusive Navigation

  Wei Wang, Anuradha Madugalla, John Grundy, John McIntosh, Pieter Hartel (2026) — ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

  This paper introduces a "proxy stakeholder" framework for Requirements Engineering (RE) aimed at designing inclusive navigation software for individuals with cognitive impairments (IwCI). The authors argue that traditional RE elicitation techniques—i…

  • cognitive accessibility
  • wayfinding
  • requirements engineering
  • proxy stakeholders
  • inclusive navigation
  • inclusive design
  • mixed methods
  • caregivers
  • support workers

• Inclusive Design of AI's Explanations: Just for Those Previously Left Out?

  Md Montaser Hamid, Fatima A. Moussaoui, Jimena Noa Guevara, Andrew Anderson, Puja Agarwal, Jonathan Dodge, Margaret Burnett (2026) — ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems

  This paper investigates whether inclusive design applied to AI explanations can produce curb-cut effects: improvements designed to help underserved users that also benefit everyone. The study centres on Explainable AI (XAI), a field concerned with he…

  • explainable AI
  • inclusive design
  • GenderMag
  • mental models
  • XAI
  • accessibility
  • curb-cut effect
  • gender inclusivity
  • AI overreliance
  • problem-solving styles

• The EasyCog Dataset: Towards Easier Cognitive Assessment with Passive Video Watching

  Qingyong Hu, Yuxuan Zhou, Jinjian Wang, Yanbin Gong, Yizhen Zhang, Jingnan Sun, Jian Yao, Qijia Shao, Lili Qiu, Qian Zhang, Guihua Li (2026) — Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies

  This paper introduces EasyCog, the first large-scale multimodal dataset designed for low-burden, low-cost cognitive assessment using passive visual engagement. The core motivation is to address well-documented limitations of standard clinical cogniti…

  • cognitive accessibility
  • cognitive assessment
  • EEG
  • eye tracking
  • dementia
  • aging
  • Alzheimer's disease
  • Parkinson's disease
  • wearable technology
  • assistive technology
  • machine learning
  • multimodal

• Judge: Effective State Abstraction for Guiding Automated Web GUI Testing

  Chenxu Liu, Junheng Wang, Wei Yang, Ying Zhang, Tao Xie (2026) — ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

  This paper presents Judge, a novel approach to state abstraction for automated web GUI testing (AWGT). AWGTs explore web applications by performing GUI actions and building a state model to guide further exploration, maximising code coverage within a…

  • automated testing
  • web accessibility
  • GUI testing
  • DOM
  • machine learning
  • contrastive learning
  • state abstraction
  • accessibility evaluation

• Expanding Perspectives to Improve Access to Visual Archives through Multimodal Image Enrichment

  Karina Rodriguez Echavarria, Myrsini Samaroudi (2026) — ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage

  This paper addresses a pervasive challenge in the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) sector: large-scale visual collections that have been digitised but remain undiscoverable because they lack descriptive metadata. The authors, from th…

  • cultural heritage
  • metadata enrichment
  • AI image classification
  • FAIR principles
  • information discovery
  • visual archives
  • multimodal AI
  • accessibility
  • museum accessibility
  • cognitive load
  • IIIF
  • GLAM

• Internet Voting Maturity Framework — Quantifying Maturity in Internet Voting Protocols

  Stanisław Barański, Ben Biedermann, Joshua Ellul (2026) — ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies

  This paper introduces the Internet Voting Maturity Framework (IVMF), a structured, trust-centric scoring methodology for evaluating and comparing seventeen internet voting protocols. The research addresses a critical gap: despite a proliferation of i…

  • internet voting
  • e-voting
  • blockchain
  • accessibility
  • trust models
  • security
  • cryptography
  • digital democracy
  • decentralized autonomous organizations
  • verifiability

• Incorporating Procedural Fairness in Flag Submissions on Social Media Platforms

  Yunhee Shim, Shagun Jhaver (2026) — ACM Transactions on Social Computing

  This paper examines how the design choices embedded in social media flagging mechanisms shape users' perceptions of procedural fairness. Flagging — the ability for users to report posts or accounts that violate community guidelines — is a critical co…

  • content moderation
  • platform governance
  • procedural fairness
  • flagging
  • social media
  • user experience
  • accessibility
  • algorithmic moderation
  • marginalized communities
  • transparency

• ExNovo: A user interface that supports novices without encumbering experts

  Mark Blair, Amanda Klassen, Justin O'Camb, Cal Woodruff, Rollin Poe, Christine Chuong, Robin Barrett (2026) — ACM Games

  ExNovo is a novel hierarchical tree menu interface designed to bridge the long-standing divide between graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and keyboard hotkeys. Traditional GUIs scaffold novice users by making command options visible, but their reliance…

  • user interface design
  • keyboard accessibility
  • motor accessibility
  • visual impairment
  • novice-to-expert transition
  • human-computer interaction
  • one-handed input
  • cognitive load
  • hotkeys
  • game interfaces
  • extended reality

• DiG-Net: Enhancing Human–Robot Interaction through Hyper-Range Dynamic Gesture Recognition in Assistive Robotics

  Eran Bamani Beeri, Eden Nissinman, Avishai Sintov (2026) — ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction

  DiG-Net (Distance-aware Gesture Network) addresses a fundamental limitation in gesture-controlled assistive robotics: existing dynamic gesture recognition systems work reliably only within about seven metres of the camera, severely constraining their…

  • assistive robotics
  • gesture recognition
  • human-robot interaction
  • mobility impairment
  • accessibility
  • computer vision
  • deep learning
  • nonverbal communication

• Designing Adaptive User Interfaces for mHealth Applications Targeting Chronic Disease: A User-Centered Approach

  Wei Wang, John Grundy, Hourieh Khalajzadeh, Anuradha Madugalla, Humphrey O. Obie (2026) — ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

  This paper from Monash and Deakin Universities addresses a persistent gap in mHealth design: most chronic disease self-management apps treat users as a homogeneous group, ignoring the wide variation in capabilities, health status, cultural background…

  • mHealth
  • adaptive user interfaces
  • chronic disease
  • accessibility
  • user-centered design
  • mobile accessibility
  • guidelines
  • self-management