Literature Reviews

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

• User Experience of Autonomous Ferries: What Passengers Need and How to Design for It

  Felix-Marcel Petermann, Ole Andreas Alsos, Mina Saghafian, Erik Veitch, Grace Winifred Turner, Maria Letizia Potenza (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  Petermann and colleagues report one of the first in-depth qualitative studies of passenger experience on an autonomous urban ferry, drawing on 164 post-ride semi-structured interviews conducted during a three-week public trial of milliAmpere 2 in Tro…

  • autonomous vehicles
  • autonomous ferry
  • public transport accessibility
  • human-machine interface
  • automation transparency
  • universal design
  • travel chain
  • embodied experience
  • user experience

• Exploring the Needs, Preferences, and Concerns of Persons with Visual Impairments Regarding Autonomous Vehicles

  Julian Brinkley, Earl W. Huff, Briana Posadas, Julia Woodward, Shaundra B. Daily, Juan E. Gilbert (2020) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper presents two complementary studies exploring the needs, preferences, and concerns of people with visual impairments regarding autonomous vehicles—a technology that could fundamentally transform mobility for those who cannot drive conventio…

  • autonomous vehicles
  • self-driving cars
  • visual impairment
  • mobility
  • transportation accessibility
  • human-machine interface
  • user needs

• It's Enactment Time!: High-fidelity Enactment Stage for Accessible Automated Driving System Technology Research

  Aaron Gluck, Hannah Solini, Julian Brinkley (2022) — Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '22)

  This pictorial paper documents the iterative design and construction of a high-fidelity enactment stage for researching accessible autonomous vehicle (AV) technology with older adults and people with disabilities. Autonomous vehicles hold transformat…

  • autonomous vehicles
  • accessible transportation
  • user enactment
  • older adults
  • physical disability
  • research methods
  • prototyping
  • human-machine interface
  • inclusive design