Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
68 results found tagged intellectual disability.
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Conversational Voice User Interfaces Supporting Individuals with Down Syndrome: A Literature Review
This systematic literature review examines 43 papers published between 1998 and 2023 on the use of Conversational Voice User Interfaces (CVUIs) to support individuals with Down syndrome. Using the PRISMA methodology, the authors searched ACM Digital …
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Social Media Apps: A Paradigm for Examining Usability of Mobile Apps for Working-Age Adults with Mild-Moderate Cognitive Disabilities
This empirical usability study examines how working-age adults (18-65) with mild-to-moderate cognitive disabilities interact with five mainstream social media apps: Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat, and Tumblr. The research addresses a signif…
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Accessible Technology for Adults with Down Syndrome: A Scoping Review
This scoping review synthesizes 20 peer-reviewed publications examining digital technologies designed and used by adults with Down syndrome (AwDS), defined as individuals aged 18 and older. The authors followed PRISMA-ScR guidelines, searching six ac…
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Digital Independence Linked to Functional Independence among Adults with Intellectual Disability
This study investigates the relationship between digital independence (the ability to access and use digital technologies for information) and functional independence (the ability to perform daily living tasks) among adults with intellectual disabili…
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Feedback and Guidance to Support Children with Intellectual Disabilities in Discovery Learning with a Tangible Interactive Tabletop
This research investigates how tangible interactive technology can support discovery-based learning for children with intellectual disabilities—a population for whom unstructured exploration is particularly challenging due to difficulties with abstra…
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Inclusion and Education: 3D Printing for Integrated Classrooms
This research addresses the severe employment gap facing adults with intellectual disabilities (ID)—over 60% unemployment versus roughly 25% for the general population—by exploring whether 3D printing skills can be taught in integrated postsecondary …
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An Affordable Virtual Reality Learning Framework for Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorder
This paper presents Wildcard, an immersive virtual reality (IVR) system designed to support therapeutic interventions for children with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD). NDD encompasses conditions like intellectual disability, ADHD, and autism spec…
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Comparing Tactile, Auditory, and Visual Assembly Error-Feedback for Workers with Cognitive Impairments
This paper compares three modalities of error feedback — tactile, auditory, and visual — for cognitively impaired workers performing manual assembly tasks at sheltered work organizations. Industrial manufacturing companies increasingly outsource asse…
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Games for People with Developmental Disabilities
This short paper (doctoral consortium contribution) presents two web-based games developed for people with developmental disabilities (DD) in collaboration with Hope Services, a California non-profit. The work addresses the gap that most existing edu…
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Online Learning System to Help People with Developmental Disabilities Reinforce Basic Skills
This paper presents the development and evaluation of an HTML5-based web application for iPad designed to help people with developmental disabilities (DD) of all ages reinforce basic skills such as recognizing numbers, letters, money, shapes, and col…