Literature Reviews

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

• When Assistive Technologies become Provocations: Unpacking Access in HCI practices using Crip Technoscience, Mouth Interfaces, and XR

  Puneet Jain, Ayush Sharma, Sidharth Chaudhary, Vivek Rawat, Akhilesh Kumar Bhagat, Kratika Jain, Christian Bayerlein, Christopher Lloyd Salter, Gowdham Prabhakar (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This CHI 2026 paper reframes assistive technology as political provocation rather than technical fix. Developed in long-term collaboration with two disabled artists - Eric Desrosiers (muscular dystrophy) and Christian Bayerlein (spinal muscular atrop…

  • crip technoscience
  • extended reality
  • XR accessibility
  • mouth interface
  • provocation
  • assistive technology
  • disability-led design
  • ableism
  • HCI research methods
  • activist design
  • participatory design
  • disability justice
  • critical disability studies

• How Accessible are Virtual Reality Freehand Gestures? Understanding Barriers for Users with Upper Limb Motor Impairments

  Lauren Pococke, Crescent Jicol, Christof Lutteroth, Christopher Clarke (2025) — ASSETS 2025: 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper provides the first empirical examination of how accessible default freehand gesture implementations in virtual reality are for people with upper limb motor impairments. The researchers recruited 8 adults with conditions including lupus, rh…

  • virtual reality
  • motor accessibility
  • freehand gestures
  • hand tracking
  • upper limb impairments
  • XR accessibility
  • interaction design