Literature Reviews

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

• Towards Understanding the Effect of Serious Games on Attention, Adherence, and Behavior for Children with ADHD

  Jonathan Wang Liu, Mahmood Jasim, Jeong-Heon Song, So-Hwi Ha, Jun-Su Kim, Dayoung Kim, Hyunsuk Lee, Byeong Il Kim, Hee-Tae Jung (2026) — ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

  This paper investigates how serious games designed to help children with ADHD impact their attention, adherence, and daily behaviour in real-world home settings. Conducted in two stages, the study first involved nine educators working with children i…

  • ADHD
  • serious games
  • digital therapeutics
  • children
  • attention
  • cognitive training
  • home-based intervention
  • self-efficacy
  • adaptive difficulty
  • caregiver involvement
  • HCI
  • neurodevelopmental disabilities

• Understanding How Deaf and Hard of Hearing Viewers Visually Explore Captioned Live TV News

  Akhter Al Amin, Saad Hassan, Sooyeon Lee, Matt Huenerfauth (2023) — Proceedings of the 20th International Web for All Conference (W4A '23)

  This study investigates how Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) viewers distribute their visual attention across different information regions on screen while watching captioned live television news. More than 360 million people worldwide are DHH, and man…

  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • captioning
  • eye tracking
  • television accessibility
  • caption placement
  • gaze behavior
  • live captioning
  • news consumption
  • attention
  • caption quality metrics

• Participatory Design for Cognitive Accessibility of Web-based Interactive Systems

  Adrian Wegener (2024) — Proceedings of the 21st International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This doctoral consortium paper outlines a PhD research program aimed at addressing the significant underrepresentation of cognitive accessibility in web accessibility research. The author notes that while cognitive disabilities account for a 28% shar…

  • cognitive accessibility
  • participatory design
  • attention
  • focus
  • ADHD
  • web accessibility
  • user-centered design
  • inclusive design

• FocusUp: A Browser Extension for Enhancing Online Attention and Productivity for ADHD Individuals

  Wajdi Aljedaani, Weston Leonard, Hector Ruiz, Adrian Wegener (2025) — Proceedings of the 22nd International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This technical note presents FocusUp, a Chrome browser extension designed to help individuals with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) maintain focus and improve productivity while browsing the web. ADHD is a neurodevelopmental condition …

  • ADHD
  • cognitive accessibility
  • browser extension
  • task management
  • executive function
  • productivity
  • attention

• Designing for Attention: Evaluating an Affordable Immersive VR Platform for Neurodiverse Children

  Mirko Gelsomini, Eleonora La Porta, Alessandro Fusco, Luca Maria Papandrea (2025) — ASSETS 2025: 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper presents VISTA (Visual Immersive Storytelling for Therapeutic Attention), a low-cost Wearable Immersive Virtual Reality (WIVR) platform designed to support attention-focused therapeutic interventions for neurodiverse children. The system u…

  • virtual reality
  • neurodiversity
  • attention
  • therapeutic technology
  • children
  • gaze interaction
  • co-design
  • affordable technology
  • immersive environments