Literature Reviews

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

• From Barriers to Blueprints: A Critical Systematic Review of Older Adults and Social VR

  Sho Conte, Cosmin Munteanu, Aava Sapkota (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  Conte, Munteanu, and Sapkota conduct a critical systematic review of 85 HCI papers (2017-2024) on older adults and social VR, arguing that the dominant narrative — which frames older adults as deficient users who struggle to adopt VR — is itself a pr…

  • social VR
  • older adults
  • ageism
  • epistemic injustice
  • resistant reading
  • critical gerontology
  • metaverse
  • virtual reality accessibility
  • systematic review
  • design justice

• Examining Age-Bias and Stereotypes of Aging in LLMs

  Sherwin Dewan, Ismail Shaikh, Connie Shaw, Abhilash Sahoo, Akshita Jha, Alisha Pradhan (2025) — ASSETS 2025: 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper investigates how large language models encode and reproduce age-related stereotypes about older adults. Using prompts from the Bias Benchmarking Questionnaire (BBQ), a well-established fairness dataset, the researchers administered 1,648 a…

  • ageism
  • AI bias
  • large language models
  • older adults
  • stereotypes
  • fairness