Literature Reviews

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

• Mapping Caregiver Needs to AI Chatbot Design: Strengths and Gaps in Mental Health Support for Alzheimer's and Dementia Caregivers

  Jiayue Melissa Shi, Dong Whi Yoo, Keran Wang, Violeta J. Rodriguez, Ravi Karkar, Koustuv Saha (2026) — ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare

  Family caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (AD/ADRD) face significant mental health challenges — including stress, anxiety, depression, compassion fatigue, anticipatory grief, and burnout — yet have limited access…

  • AI chatbots
  • dementia caregiving
  • mental health
  • caregiver wellbeing
  • conversational AI
  • large language models
  • human-centered design
  • technology probe

• Designing Assistive Technology for Blind Users

  Kristen Shinohara (2006) — Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '06)

  This paper reports on an observational and interview case study of a congenitally blind college student (pseudonym Sara) conducted in her home to develop design insights for improving interactions between blind users and everyday technological artifa…

  • blindness
  • assistive technology
  • human-centered design
  • ethnography
  • case study
  • workarounds
  • tactile feedback
  • auditory feedback

• Wearables for All: Development of Guidelines to Stimulate Accessible Wearable Technology Design

  Jobke Wentzel, Eric Velleman, Thea van der Geest (2016) — Proceedings of the 13th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper from the University of Twente and The Accessibility Foundation (Netherlands) presents the rationale and methodology for developing accessibility guidelines specifically for wearable technology — a domain where no dedicated accessibility st…

  • wearable technology
  • universal design
  • guidelines
  • visual impairment
  • multimodal interaction
  • digital divide
  • human-centered design