Literature Reviews

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

• "Computer Says No": Disabled Welfare Experiences and Envisioned Futures Under AI Governance

  Humphrey Curtis, Adam D G Jenkins, Alistair Gentry, Sioban Zacharek, Sally McVicker, Timothy Neate, Filip Bircanin (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  Curtis and colleagues investigate how people with aphasia — a language impairment most often caused by stroke that affects reading, writing, speech, and comprehension — experience the increasingly digitised and AI-automated UK welfare state, and how …

  • AI
  • artificial intelligence
  • AI governance
  • algorithmic decision-making
  • aphasia
  • welfare
  • digital exclusion
  • participatory design
  • design fiction
  • disability rights
  • critical HCI
  • government services
  • hostile design
  • communication disability

• The Ethnographically Informed Participatory Design of a PDA Application to Support Communication

  Rhian Davies, Skip Marcella, Joanna McGrenere, Barbara Purves (2004) — Proceedings of the 6th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets 04)

  This paper describes an ethnographically informed participatory design process for creating a PDA-based file management system to support communication for a person with aphasia. The research was conducted at the University of British Columbia with o…

  • aphasia
  • augmentative and alternative communication
  • participatory design
  • ethnography
  • mobile technology
  • assistive technology
  • communication disability
  • PDA
  • file management

• Exploring the Usability of Gaze-based Mobile Communication in Ghana

  Victoria Austin, Gifty Ayoka, Giulia Barbareschi, Richard Cave, Catherine Holloway (2025) — ASSETS 2025: 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This study evaluates the usability of Look to Speak, a free Android-based eye-gaze AAC application developed by Google Creative Lab, for people with severe communication disabilities in Ghana. The research involved training 10 local speech and langua…

  • augmentative communication
  • AAC
  • eye gaze
  • Global South
  • Ghana
  • smartphone accessibility
  • cerebral palsy
  • communication disability
  • assistive technology ecosystem
  • low-resource setting