Literature Reviews

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

• Deconstructing a "puzzle" of visual experiences of blind and low-vision visual artists

  Yulia Zhiglova (2020) — Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2020)

  This short paper explores how blind and low-vision visual artists perceive and interpret visual information, with the goal of informing the design of a haptic device that could communicate rich visual details. While existing assistive technologies fo…

  • visual accessibility
  • blindness and low vision
  • haptic technology
  • disability arts
  • perception
  • social cognition
  • creative accessibility
  • sensory processing

• Accessible Creativity with a Comic Spin

  Carla Tamburro, Timothy Neate, Abi Roper, Stephanie Wilson (2020) — Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2020)

  This paper presents Comic Spin, a tablet-based app (iOS and Android) designed to enable people with aphasia to create short comic strips. Aphasia, most commonly caused by stroke, affects language abilities including reading, writing, speaking, and li…

  • aphasia
  • creativity support tools
  • constrained creativity
  • cognitive accessibility
  • participatory design
  • content creation
  • disability arts

• Brain Body Jockey project: Transcending Bodily Limitations in Live Performance via Human Augmentation

  Giulia Barbareschi, Songchen Zhou, Ando Ryoichi, Midori Kawaguchi, Mark Armstrong, Mikito Ogino, Shunsuke Aoiki, Eisaku Ohta, Harunobu Taguchi, Youichi Kamiyama, Masatane Muto, Kentaro Yoshifuji, Kouta Minamizawa (2024) — Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2024)

  This paper documents a groundbreaking collaboration between a professional VDJ (video disc jockey) with advanced Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and a team of researchers and technologists to create a human augmentation system enabling brain-cont…

  • brain-machine interface
  • ALS
  • human augmentation
  • disability arts
  • robotic arms
  • live performance
  • stage presence
  • assistive technology

• Expanding Norms, Negotiating Bodies: How Artists with Disabilities Perceive and Use Creative Tools

  Miriam Brody, Izabella Rodrigues, Jane L. E, Jingyi Li (2025) — ASSETS '25: Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This qualitative study explores how 12 artists with disabilities use, reject, or modify tools in their creative practice, applying a crip technoscience lens to inform the design of future creativity support tools (CSTs). The artists spanned a wide ra…

  • disability arts
  • crip technoscience
  • creativity support tools
  • embodiment
  • interdependence
  • disability studies