Literature Reviews

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

• Harmonizing the Senses: Designing a Cross-Modal Interactive Art System to Enhance Older Adults' Affective Experiences

  SiHan An, Yifan Wu, Zihan Zhang, Yuanlinxi Li, Mengqi Jiang, Jiaxin Zhang, Qingchuan Li (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This CHI 2026 paper investigates how cross-modal correspondence and congruency across visual, auditory, and kinetic modalities shape older adults' affective experiences in digital art systems, and how an AI-infused drawing mode can scaffold those exp…

  • older adults
  • multisensory stimulation
  • affective computing
  • cross-modal correspondence
  • generative AI
  • cognitive accessibility
  • digital art
  • aging

• I tried everything. Nothing works: Challenges and Creative Processes from Digital Artists with Upper Limb Motor Impairments

  Rodolfo Cossovich, Shanel Wu, Audrey Girouard (2024) — ASSETS 2024: 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This study investigates the complex relationship between accessibility challenges and creative processes for digital artists with upper limb motor impairments. Through 15 semi-structured interviews with artists who regularly use graphic input devices…

  • motor impairment
  • digital art
  • creative processes
  • graphic input devices
  • disability art
  • assistive technology
  • upper limb impairment
  • artistic ownership