Literature Reviews

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

• The ORBIT India Dataset: Understanding the Challenges of Collecting a Disability-First AI Dataset in Low-Resource Environments

  Gesu India, Martin Grayson, Cecily Morrison, Daniela Massiceti, Simon Robinson, Jennifer Pearson, Matt Jones (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This paper introduces ORBIT-India, the first teachable object recognition dataset contributed entirely by people who are blind or have low vision in India. It extends the UK/Canada-collected ORBIT dataset (Massiceti et al., 2021) to the Indian contex…

  • AI
  • accessibility
  • datasets
  • teachable object recognition
  • vision impairment
  • Global South
  • blindness and low vision
  • computer vision
  • few-shot learning
  • data feminism
  • data colonialism
  • participatory design
  • privacy
  • PII
  • India

• Understanding Personalized Accessibility through Teachable AI: Designing and Evaluating Find My Things for People who are Blind or Low Vision

  Cecily Morrison, Martin Grayson, Rita Faia Marques, Daniela Massiceti, Camilla Longden, Linda Wen, Edward Cutrell (2023) — Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '23)

  This paper from Microsoft Research presents Find My Things, one of the first fully realized end-to-end teachable AI applications for accessibility. The app allows people who are blind or low vision to teach their phone to recognize personal objects —…

  • teachable AI
  • object recognition
  • blind and low vision
  • personalization
  • few-shot learning
  • computer vision
  • mobile accessibility
  • participatory design