Literature Reviews

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

• A Community-Centered Design Framework for Robot-Assisted Feeding Systems

  Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Maria E. Cabrera, Anat Caspi, Maya Cakmak, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa (2019) — Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This paper develops a community-centered design framework for evaluating robot-assisted feeding (RAF) systems, shifting the perspective from purely transactional (robot picks up food, delivers to mouth) to relational (feeding as a social, cultural, a…

  • assistive robotics
  • activities of daily living
  • motor disability
  • feeding assistance
  • community-centered design
  • contextual inquiry
  • participatory design
  • caregiving
  • social-ecological model
  • assistive technology

• Exploring Collaboration to Center the Deaf Community in Sign Language AI

  Rie Kamikubo, Abraham Glasser, Alex X Lu, Hal Daumé III, Hernisa Kacorri, Danielle Bragg (2025) — ASSETS 2025: 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper investigates the critical disconnect between machine learning (ML) practitioners and Deaf American Sign Language (ASL) signers in the development of sign language AI technologies. Despite sign language processing's promise for societal inc…

  • Deaf community
  • sign language
  • American Sign Language
  • machine learning
  • participatory AI
  • co-design
  • interdisciplinary collaboration
  • AI ethics
  • community-centered design
  • sign language recognition