Literature Reviews

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

• Co-Ideating a Digital Pain Companion: Exploring How Music Can Support Daily Chronic Pain Self-Management

  Bleiz M. Del Sette, Charalampos Saitis (2026) — ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare

  This paper presents the co-ideation of the Digital Pain Companion (DPC), a proposed music-integrating wearable interface for daily chronic pain self-management. Grounded in the psychosocial dimensions of chronic pain rather than biomedical symptom tr…

  • chronic pain
  • co-design
  • music therapy
  • wearable technology
  • self-management
  • pain communication
  • soma design
  • sonification
  • person-centred design

• Technology to Reduce Social Isolation and Loneliness

  Ron Baecker, Kate Sellen, Sarah Crosskey, Veronique Boscart, Barbara Barbosa Neves (2014) — Proceedings of the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This paper reports on a multi-year iterative research programme (from 2009 onward) investigating how technology can reduce social isolation and loneliness among older adults in various settings. The researchers from the University of Toronto, OCAD Un…

  • aging
  • social isolation
  • loneliness
  • communication technology
  • long-term care
  • chronic pain
  • inclusive design
  • tangible interaction
  • older adults