Literature Reviews

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

• AI That Moves With You: A Review of Interactive Technologies Powered by Large Foundation Models for Mobility Impairment

  Duosi Dai, Yuchong Zhang, Yong Ma, Danica Kragic (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This paper is a scoping review (PRISMA-ScR) of how large foundation models - LLMs, large vision models, and vision-language models - are being woven into interactive assistive technologies for people with mobility impairments, covering publications f…

  • foundation model
  • large language model
  • vision-language model
  • literature review
  • scoping review
  • mobility impairment
  • motor disability
  • blind and low vision
  • wheelchair users
  • ALS
  • assistive technology
  • conversational agent
  • robotics
  • wearable technology
  • accessibility research

• A Personalized and Adaptable User Interface for a Speech and Cursor Brain-Computer Interface

  Hamza Peracha, Carrina Iacobacci, Tyler Singer-Clark, Leigh R Hochberg, Sergey D. Stavisky, David M. Brandman, Nicholas S Card (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This paper reports on the user interface design for an intracortical brain-computer interface (BCI) deployed for everyday at-home use by people with severe paralysis. The work centers on a 22-month longitudinal co-design study with one BrainGate2 tri…

  • brain-computer interface
  • AAC
  • ALS
  • amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
  • paralysis
  • speech neuroprosthesis
  • co-design
  • personalization
  • ability-based design
  • longitudinal deployment

• Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) for Communication and Control

  Jonathan R. Wolpaw (2007) — Proceedings of the 9th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '07)

  This keynote paper from Jonathan Wolpaw at the Wadsworth Center (New York State Department of Health) provides an overview of brain-computer interface (BCI) research aimed at developing augmentative communication and control technology for people wit…

  • brain-computer interface
  • augmentative communication
  • neuromuscular disorders
  • ALS
  • EEG
  • electrocorticography
  • assistive technology
  • locked-in syndrome

• A Galvanic Skin Response Interface for People with Severe Motor Disabilities

  Melody M. Moore, Umang Dua (2004) — Proceedings of the 6th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets 04)

  This paper explores the use of Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) — changes in the electrical conductivity of the skin caused by sweat gland activity linked to the sympathetic nervous system — as a non-muscular input channel for people with locked-in syndr…

  • locked-in syndrome
  • galvanic skin response
  • brain-computer interface
  • biometric control
  • ALS
  • assistive technology
  • physiological computing
  • motor disability
  • biofeedback

• A Tool for Creating Eye-Aware Applications that Adapt to Changes in User Behavior

  Greg Edwards (1998) — Proceedings of the Third International ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '98)

  This paper from Stanford University's Archimedes Project presents the Black Squirrel Eye Interpretation Engine, a development tool for creating eye-aware software applications that adapt in real-time to changes in a user's natural eye-movement behavi…

  • eye tracking
  • gaze interaction
  • eye-controlled interface
  • adaptive interface
  • ALS
  • motor disabilities
  • on-screen keyboard
  • Midas Touch problem
  • assistive technology

• Improved Inference and Autotyping in EEG-based BCI Typing Systems

  Andrew Fowler, Brian Roark, Umut Orhan, Deniz Erdogmus, Melanie Fried-Oken (2013) — Proceedings of the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '13)

  This paper presents improvements to the RSVP Keyboard, a brain-computer interface (BCI) typing system designed for people with severe motor disabilities, particularly those with locked-in syndrome (LIS) resulting from ALS or brain stem stroke who can…

  • brain-computer interface
  • BCI
  • EEG
  • text entry
  • locked-in syndrome
  • ALS
  • AAC
  • language models
  • P300
  • assistive technology
  • motor disability

• Conception and Experimentation of a Communication Device with Adaptive Scanning

  Souhir Ghedira, Pierre Pino, Guy Bourhis (2009) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

  This paper presents an adaptive algorithm for optimizing scanning delay (Tscan) in switch-operated AAC devices, addressing one of the fundamental challenges in scanning-based communication: finding the right balance between speed and error rate. For …

  • AAC
  • scanning
  • switch access
  • motor disabilities
  • adaptive systems
  • human-computer interaction
  • ALS

• Assessing Fit of Nontraditional Assistive Technologies

  Adriane B. Randolph, Melody M. Moore Jackson (2010) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper addresses a critical gap in assistive technology: how to systematically match users who have severe motor disabilities with nontraditional assistive technologies (NTATs) that use physiological signals rather than physical movement for comp…

  • brain-computer interface
  • assistive technology
  • motor disabilities
  • ALS
  • locked-in syndrome
  • user profiling
  • fNIR
  • GSR

• Filteryedping: Design Challenges and User Performance of Dwell-Free Eye Typing

  Diogo Pedrosa, Maria da Graça Pimentel, Amy Wright, Khai N. Truong (2015) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper introduces Filteryedping, a dwell-free eye typing technique designed to help people with severe motor disabilities communicate through eye gaze. Traditional dwell-based eye typing requires users to fixate on a key for a specific duration (…

  • eye tracking
  • eye typing
  • dwell-free
  • motor disability
  • ALS
  • Duchenne muscular dystrophy
  • AAC
  • text entry
  • gaze interaction

• Assessing Virtual Assistant Capabilities with Italian Dysarthric Speech

  Fabio Ballati, Fulvio Corno, Luigi De Russis (2018) — Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '18)

  This paper evaluates how well three major smartphone virtual assistants — Apple's Siri, Google Assistant, and Microsoft's Cortana — can understand and respond to Italian dysarthric speech. Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder characterized by slurre…

  • speech recognition
  • dysarthria
  • virtual assistant
  • voice interface
  • ALS
  • speech accessibility
  • multilingual accessibility