Literature Reviews

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

• Demonstrating Consent Rings: Explicit Non-Verbal Consent Through Haptic Wearables as a Solution to Unwanted Sex Between Neurodivergent Partners

  Braeden Burger, Douglas Zytko (2026) — Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '26)

  Consent Rings is a pair of symmetric haptic Bluetooth ring wearables developed by three neurodivergent researchers as an accessibility-oriented alternative to verbal 'yes means yes' affirmative consent. The authors situate the work in evidence that n…

  • neurodivergence
  • autism
  • ADHD
  • consent technology
  • haptic wearables
  • non-verbal communication
  • sexual violence prevention
  • accessibility
  • wearables
  • affirmative consent