Literature Reviews

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

• Collaborative AI Scaffolding for Structured Drawing in Dementia Care: A Feasibility Study

  Hui-Lien Huang, I-Ping Chen (2026) — Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’26)

  This CHI 2026 Extended Abstract reports a one-on-one feasibility study of a tablet-based AI drawing tool for older adults with dementia, conducted at a day-care centre in Taiwan. The system pairs a Google Gemini vision-language model (VLM) with Azure…

  • dementia
  • older adults
  • human-AI collaboration
  • human-in-the-loop
  • vision-language model
  • text-to-speech
  • art therapy
  • cognitive accessibility
  • feasibility study

• LingoLift: Supporting Educators in Personalized Oral Language Teaching for Autistic Children through Content Generation

  Jiawen Zhang, Dongyijie Primo Pan, Li Wang, Pan Hui, Xin Tong (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This CHI 2026 paper presents LingoLift, a generative AI system that supports special-education teachers and speech-language pathologists in preparing and delivering personalized oral language lessons for autistic children. The authors argue that exis…

  • autism spectrum disorder
  • personalized learning
  • generative AI
  • oral language learning
  • human-AI collaboration
  • special education
  • speech-language pathology
  • VB-MAPP
  • educator-centered AI
  • inclusive education

• Not Seeing the Whole Picture: Challenges and Opportunities in Using AI for Co-Making Physical, DIY-AT for People with Visual Impairments

  Ben Kosa, Hsuanling Lee, Jasmine Li, Sanbrita Mondal, Yuhang Zhao, Liang He (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This CHI 2026 paper explores whether an LLM-based conversational agent can act as a co-making partner — not just a visual aid — when people with visual impairments (PVI) build their own physical assistive technology. The authors extended their prior …

  • blindness
  • low vision
  • DIY assistive technology
  • tangible interaction
  • Generative AI
  • Large Language Model
  • accessibility prototyping
  • human-AI collaboration
  • hallucinations

• ADCanvas: Accessible and Conversational Audio Description Authoring for Blind and Low Vision Creators

  Franklin Mingzhe Li, Michael Xieyang Liu, Cynthia L Bennett, Shaun K. Kane (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  Li and colleagues tackle a rarely examined corner of accessibility: the fact that the tools used to produce Audio Description (AD) are themselves largely inaccessible to the blind and low-vision (BLV) creators who are often its most skilled practitio…

  • audio description
  • blind and low vision
  • conversational agent
  • multimodal LLM
  • visual question answering
  • human-AI collaboration
  • accessible authoring
  • screen reader
  • content creation
  • technology probe

• Shared Control for Game Accessibility: Understanding Current Human Cooperation Practices to Inform the Design of Partial Automation Solutions

  Dragan Ahmetovic, Matteo Manzoni, Filippo Corti, Sergio Mascetti (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This CHI 2026 paper investigates 'shared control' in video games — an accessibility practice in which a player with a disability (the 'pilot') delegates inaccessible game actions to another agent (the 'copilot') so the pair jointly drive a single cha…

  • game accessibility
  • shared control
  • partial automation
  • human-AI collaboration
  • motor disability
  • blindness
  • qualitative research
  • assistive technology
  • user autonomy
  • reflexive thematic analysis

• Design and Evaluation of Hybrid Search for American Sign Language to English Dictionaries: Making the Most of Imperfect Sign Recognition

  Saad Hassan, Akhter Al Amin, Alexis Gordon, Sooyeon Lee, Matt Huenerfauth (2022) — Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22)

  This CHI 2022 paper tackles a practical problem faced by the roughly 200,000 students currently studying American Sign Language (ASL) in the US: how do you look up the meaning of a sign you just saw when you don't know its English gloss? Unlike writt…

  • american sign language
  • sign language
  • sign language recognition
  • search interfaces
  • dictionary
  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • human-AI collaboration
  • user experience
  • qualitative research

• DescribePro: Collaborative Audio Description with Human-AI Interaction

  Maryam S Cheema, Sina Elahimanesh, Samuel Martin, Pooyan Fazli, Hasti Seifi (2025) — ASSETS 2025: 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper presents DescribePro, a web-based platform that combines human expertise with AI capabilities to create and refine audio descriptions (AD) for video content. The system addresses the fundamental tension in AD production: human-crafted desc…

  • audio description
  • video accessibility
  • human-AI collaboration
  • authoring tools
  • blind and low vision
  • large language models
  • personalization
  • collaborative editing
  • multimodal AI