Literature Reviews

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

• Reclaiming VR Design Authority: Deaf Signers Shaping Immersive Classrooms

  Shuxu Huffman, Laura South, Matthew James Buckman, Raja Kushalnagar, Francisco Raul Ortega, Abraham Glasser (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This paper reports a Deaf-led, ASL-first study of a VR classroom prototype designed to reduce the persistent "visual attention split" that Deaf students experience in remote and online classrooms, where gaze must constantly shuttle between a signing …

  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • deaf tech
  • virtual reality
  • visual attention split
  • american sign language
  • participatory design
  • education
  • deaf-centered design