Literature Reviews

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

• Mnemonic Tracing: Using Eye Gaze to Search for Visual Memories

  Wazeer Zulfikar, Yasith Samaradivakara, Paul Pu Liang, Pattie Maes (2026) — Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’26)

  Mnemonic Tracing is a non-verbal image-retrieval interaction in which a user, wearing eye-tracking glasses, deliberately retraces the contents of a remembered image with their gaze on a blank surface. The paper builds on gaze-reinstatement research, …

  • eye tracking
  • gaze interaction
  • gaze reinstatement
  • episodic memory
  • image retrieval
  • hands-free interaction
  • implicit interaction
  • wearable technology
  • multimodal AI

• Providing Good Memory Cues for People with Episodic Memory Impairment

  Matthew L. Lee, Anind K. Dey (2007) — Proceedings of the 9th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '07)

  This paper from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University presents two studies investigating how caregivers use cues to support episodic memory recollection in people with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and what types of cues a…

  • dementia
  • Alzheimer's disease
  • episodic memory
  • lifelogging
  • memory cue
  • caregiver burden
  • aging
  • cognitive assistive technology
  • reminiscence