Literature Reviews

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

• From Barriers to Blueprints: A Critical Systematic Review of Older Adults and Social VR

  Sho Conte, Cosmin Munteanu, Aava Sapkota (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  Conte, Munteanu, and Sapkota conduct a critical systematic review of 85 HCI papers (2017-2024) on older adults and social VR, arguing that the dominant narrative — which frames older adults as deficient users who struggle to adopt VR — is itself a pr…

  • social VR
  • older adults
  • ageism
  • epistemic injustice
  • resistant reading
  • critical gerontology
  • metaverse
  • virtual reality accessibility
  • systematic review
  • design justice

• Banal Autistic Social Media: A Found Footage Autoethnography

  Kay Kender, Katta Spiel (2023) — Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This position paper argues for designing social media platforms that support thriving neurodiverse online communities, moving beyond deficit-focused approaches that treat autistic users as needing to be "fixed" to match neurotypical social norms. The…

  • autism
  • neurodiversity
  • social media
  • design justice
  • autoethnography
  • inclusive design
  • design power
  • sensory overload
  • online communities