Literature Reviews

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

• Understanding the Use of a Large Language Model-Powered Guide to Make Virtual Reality Accessible for Blind and Low Vision People

  Jazmin Collins, Sharon Y Lin, Tianqi Liu, Andrea Stevenson Won, Shiri Azenkot (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  Collins and colleagues present the first empirical user study of an AI-powered 'sighted guide' for blind and low-vision (BLV) users in social virtual reality. Social VR platforms like VRChat (40,000 concurrent players) are largely inaccessible: they …

  • virtual reality
  • social VR
  • blind and low vision
  • AI guide
  • large language model
  • sighted guide
  • embodied agent
  • avatar
  • human-AI interaction
  • user study