Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
132 results found tagged aging.
-
Look Here, Click Me: Improving Older Adults’ Perception of Manipulable User Interface Components through AI-Based Perceptual Guidance
This CHI 2026 Extended Abstracts paper from Sookmyung Women’s University (Seoul) tackles a concrete gap in older-adult digital literacy: existing programs teach step-by-step procedures ("tap here, then here, then here") that collapse the moment an ap…
-
Disability, Differences, and Diversity: Revisiting Inclusive Design and Access
This 2026 CHI EA meetup position paper — authored by 15 researchers across eleven European and Asian institutions — frames the current moment in accessibility as a policy-compliance inflection point and invites the HCI community to resist a complianc…
-
Shared Stories, Shared Bonds: People with Dementia Exploring Generative AI Together
This paper reports on a qualitative workshop study examining how people living with mild to moderate dementia engage with three generative AI tools - Microsoft Copilot (text), Midjourney (images), and Suno (music) - in a group setting, and what forms…
-
GuideMe: A VLM-Based System Assisting Independent Smartphone Learning for Older Adults
GuideMe tackles a problem familiar to anyone who has watched an older relative struggle to learn a new smartphone app: the combined weight of declining vision, memory, and motor function plus unfamiliar terminology makes independent learning extremel…
-
From Performers to Creators: Understanding Retired Women's Perceptions of Technology-Enhanced Dance Performance
Zheng and colleagues study how interactive-dance and generative-AI technologies can be designed around the needs of retired women dancers in China — a population estimated at over 100 million, for whom community dance is a major post-retirement pract…
-
Harmonizing the Senses: Designing a Cross-Modal Interactive Art System to Enhance Older Adults' Affective Experiences
This CHI 2026 paper investigates how cross-modal correspondence and congruency across visual, auditory, and kinetic modalities shape older adults' affective experiences in digital art systems, and how an AI-infused drawing mode can scaffold those exp…
-
Remembering with Reminiscope: Codesigning with Generative AI for Reminiscence Among Older Adults
This CHI 2026 paper presents two linked studies investigating how generative AI can support reminiscence among older adults, both individually and in group settings. In Study 1, the authors conducted individual co-design sessions with 16 residents of…
-
Let's Make a Community [of Practice]: Using Community-Based Participatory Design to Support Interdependence
Accessibility and HCI research on dementia has moved away from the medical-model framing of 'recipients of care' toward dementia-friendly communities, interdependence, and person-centred support. But Czech and colleagues note a gap: most of this work…
-
Looking Beyond the Screen to Study the Technology Use of Older People Experiencing Cognitive Concerns
This CHI 2026 paper is a week-long qualitative study of how ten older adults with cognitive concerns — nine with Subjective Cognitive Decline (SCD) and one with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), ages 50s–80s, six Mandarin-speaking — use videoconferenc…
-
Toward Integrating AI Chat and Search: A User-Centered Perspective across Age Groups
This paper investigates how younger adults (25 participants, mean age 27) and older adults (22 participants, mean age 56) use AI chat (ChatGPT) and traditional search (Google Search) together to retrieve information. The research is framed around Vis…