Literature Reviews

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

• WISE: A Wizard Interface Supporting Enhanced Usability

  Joshua M. Hailpern (2006) — Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '06)

  This poster paper from Carnegie Mellon University presents WISE (Wizard Interface Supporting Enhanced usability), an alternative operating system and application UI specifically designed to address the cognitive deficits of older adults (60+) rather …

  • older adults
  • cognitive accessibility
  • age-friendly design
  • linear interaction
  • cognitive decline
  • user interface design
  • gerontology

• App Usage Predicts Cognitive Ability in Older Adults

  Mitchell L. Gordon, Leon Gatys, Carlos Guestrin, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Andrew Trister, Kayur Patel (2019) — CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

  This paper investigates how older adults use smartphones differently from younger adults and whether those differences can be explained by cognitive function. The researchers collected three months of iPhone usage data from 84 healthy older adults (a…

  • older adults
  • cognitive decline
  • smartphone usage
  • mobile accessibility
  • digital biomarkers
  • machine learning
  • aging