Literature Reviews

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

• Building Care That Fits Its People: Insights from Social Media-Enabled Community-Based Rehabilitation in Thailand

  Acarima Nanthanasit, Sophia Ppali, Wan-Jou She, Panote Siriaraya, Thammathip Piumsomboon, Siwaporn Sukittanon, Chee Siang Ang, Alexandra Covaci (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This CHI 2026 paper reports on a six-month, multi-platform social media intervention for Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR) of stroke patients in rural Chiang Mai, Thailand. The authors co-designed content with clinicians, Village Health Volunteers…

  • Community-Based Rehabilitation
  • digital health
  • social media
  • Global South accessibility
  • stroke recovery
  • caregiving
  • LMIC
  • participatory design
  • cultural accessibility
  • Thailand

• Bridging the Digital Divide: Enhancing Digital Inclusion of Blind or Partially Sighted and Deaf or Hard of Hearing Individuals in Low- and Middle-Income Countries through Smartphones as Assistive Technology

  Maryam Bandukda, Mary Caroline Yuk, Giulia Barbareschi, Laxmi Gunupudi, Vinicius Ramos, Amit Prakash, Satish Mishra, Victoria Austin, Catherine Holloway (2026) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This multi-country study evaluates a two-day scaffolded digital skills training intervention designed to improve smartphone proficiency among blind or partially sighted (BPS) and deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) individuals in Brazil, India, and Kenya. …

  • digital inclusion
  • digital literacy
  • LMIC
  • blind and low vision
  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • smartphones
  • assistive technology
  • scaffolding
  • ability-based design
  • digital skills training

• Scaffolding Digital Literacy Through Digital Skills Training for Disabled People in the Global South

  Laxmi Gunupudi, Maryam Bandukda, Giulia Barbareschi, Tigmanshu Bhatnagar, Aanchal Singh, Satish Mishra, Amit Prakash, Catherine Holloway (2024) — ASSETS 2024: 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper presents a digital skills training intervention for 138 blind and partially sighted (BPS) and deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) people across India and Kenya, grounded in Vygotsky's Scaffolding Theory. The study addresses the digital divide f…

  • digital literacy
  • digital skills
  • scaffolding
  • visual impairment
  • hearing impairment
  • Global South
  • LMIC
  • smartphone accessibility
  • peer learning
  • India
  • Kenya