Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
18 results found tagged employment.
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Surveilling Suitability: How AI Hiring Interviews Impact Job Seekers with Disabilities
This CHI 2026 paper reports a qualitative study of how AI-driven hiring interview platforms — asynchronous video interview tools (e.g., HireVue) that use AI to score candidates on facial expressions, vocal cues, and behavioural data — are perceived a…
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WADER: a novel wayfinding system with deviation recovery for individuals with cognitive impairments
This short ASSETS 2007 poster paper from Shih-Kai Tsai at Chung Yuan Christian University in Taiwan presents WADER (Wayfinding system with DEviation Recovery), a prototype indoor wayfinding system aimed at individuals with cognitive impairments — exp…
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Understanding the Computer Skills of Adult Expert Users with Down Syndrome: An Exploratory Study
This paper presents an ethnographic study of ten adult expert computer users with Down syndrome, observed in their homes and workplaces for a minimum of two hours each. The research aimed to move beyond earlier survey-based studies (which relied on p…
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'Your Duties Are To Sweep A Floor Remotely': Low Information Quality in Job Advertisements is a Barrier to Low-Income Job-Seekers' Successful Use of Digital Platforms
This paper investigates barriers that low-income job-seekers face when using digital platforms to find work, based on 27 semi-structured interviews with US residents earning under $45,000 who had searched for paid work in the previous two years. The …
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Evaluating the Accessibility of Crowdsourcing Tasks on Amazon's Mechanical Turk
This paper presents a heuristic accessibility evaluation of Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), a crowdsourcing platform where workers complete short tasks (Human Intelligence Tasks, or HITs) for small payments. The authors argue that crowd work platform…
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Career Interview Readiness in Virtual Reality (CIRVR): A Platform for Simulated Interview Training for Autistic Individuals and Their Employers
This paper presents CIRVR (Career Interview Readiness in Virtual Reality), a closed-loop adaptive VR platform designed to help autistic individuals practice job interview skills. The system addresses a critical employment barrier: only 10-50% of auti…
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Stress Detection of Autistic Adults during Simulated Job Interviews Using a Novel Physiological Dataset and Machine Learning
This research addresses the significant employment barriers faced by autistic adults, with job interviews identified as a primary obstacle. The researchers developed a physiological stress detection system integrated with CIRVR (Career Interview Read…
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Helping or Hindering: Inclusive Design of Automated Task Prompting for Workers with Cognitive Disabilities
This paper addresses the significant employment barriers faced by people with cognitive disabilities (PwCDs) in the United States, where only 28.6% of the approximately 8.8 million working-age adults with cognitive disabilities are employed. Those wh…
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Understanding the Challenges Faced by Neurodiverse Software Engineering Employees
This paper presents pioneering research into the workplace experiences of neurodiverse software developers, combining qualitative interviews with quantitative survey data. The researchers conducted semi-structured interviews with 10 neurodiverse indi…
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Using In-Situ Projection to Support Cognitively Impaired Workers at the Workplace
This research investigates whether projecting assembly instructions directly onto a workspace (in-situ projection) can help cognitively impaired workers complete more complex tasks compared to traditional pictorial instructions. The work addresses a …