Literature Reviews

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

• Exploring Collective Medical Knowledge and Tensions in Online ADHD Communities

  Tessa Eagle (2022) — Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '22)

  This doctoral consortium paper proposes a dissertation investigating how online ADHD communities on social media platforms serve as digitally-mediated support systems for neurodivergent individuals. The author, a neurodivergent HCI researcher at UC S…

  • ADHD
  • neurodiversity
  • online communities
  • digital mental health
  • social media
  • psychosocial disability
  • techno-solutionism
  • critical disability theory
  • peer support

• "You Can't Possibly Have ADHD": Exploring Validation and Tensions around Diagnosis within Unbounded ADHD Social Media Communities

  Tessa Eagle, Kathryn E. Ringland (2023) — Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2023)

  This paper examines how ADHD communities on social media platforms — TikTok, Twitter, and Instagram — function as informal health communities that provide information, validation, and support to individuals at various stages of discovering and naviga…

  • ADHD
  • neurodivergence
  • social media
  • online health communities
  • digital mental health
  • self-diagnosis
  • digital ethnography

• Designing Accessible, Explainable AI (XAI) Experiences

  Christine T. Wolf, Kathryn E. Ringland (2020) — SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing

  This paper examines the intersection of explainable AI (XAI) and accessibility, identifying two primary concerns that the XAI field has largely overlooked. The first concern is accessibility at the XAI interface itself. While XAI techniques like visu…

  • explainable AI
  • accessibility
  • aging in place
  • mental health
  • digital mental health
  • XAI
  • cognitive accessibility
  • inclusive design