Literature Reviews

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

• "Computer Says No": Disabled Welfare Experiences and Envisioned Futures Under AI Governance

  Humphrey Curtis, Adam D G Jenkins, Alistair Gentry, Sioban Zacharek, Sally McVicker, Timothy Neate, Filip Bircanin (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  Curtis and colleagues investigate how people with aphasia — a language impairment most often caused by stroke that affects reading, writing, speech, and comprehension — experience the increasingly digitised and AI-automated UK welfare state, and how …

  • AI
  • artificial intelligence
  • AI governance
  • algorithmic decision-making
  • aphasia
  • welfare
  • digital exclusion
  • participatory design
  • design fiction
  • disability rights
  • critical HCI
  • government services
  • hostile design
  • communication disability

• Policy Maps: Tools for Guiding the Unbounded Space of LLM Behaviors

  Michelle S. Lam, Fred Hohman, Dominik Moritz, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Kenneth Holstein, Mary Beth Kery (2025) — Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '25)

  This paper introduces "policy maps," an approach to AI policy design for large language models inspired by physical mapmaking. The core insight is that comprehensive policy coverage over an unbounded space of LLM inputs and outputs is impossible — ju…

  • AI safety
  • AI policy
  • large language models
  • AI ethics
  • model evaluation
  • content moderation
  • data visualization
  • human-AI interaction
  • AI governance