Literature Reviews

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

• Designing Socially Assistive Robots for Perinatal Depression Screening: Insights and Ethical Considerations from Two Exploratory Studies

  Mengyu Zhong, Lux Miranda, Fotios C. Papadopoulos, Katie Winkle, Alkistis Skalkidou, Ginevra Castellano (2026) — ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction

  This paper reports two exploratory studies investigating the use of Socially Assistive Robots (SARs) for Perinatal Depression (PND) screening. PND affects up to 10% of individuals during pregnancy or postpartum, yet 50% of antenatal depression cases …

  • socially assistive robots
  • mental health
  • perinatal depression
  • participatory design
  • human-robot interaction
  • ethics
  • healthcare technology
  • vulnerable populations
  • trustworthy AI

• MEMOS: An Interactive Assistive System for Prospective Memory Deficit Compensation — Architecture and Functionality

  Hendrik Schulze (2003) — Proceedings of the 6th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '04)

  This paper presents MEMOS (Mobile Extensible Memory Aid System), a distributed electronic memory aid designed to compensate for prospective memory deficits following brain injury. Prospective memory — the ability to remember future intentions and tas…

  • cognitive prosthetics
  • memory
  • brain injury
  • mobile technology
  • assistive technology
  • caregiving
  • rehabilitation
  • independent living
  • cognitive accessibility
  • healthcare technology