Literature Reviews

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

• A Diary Study in Social Virtual Reality: Impact of Avatars with Disability Signifiers on the Social Experiences of People with Disabilities

  Kexin Zhang, Elmira Deldari, Yaxing Yao, Yuhang Zhao (2023) — ASSETS '23: Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper presents a two-week diary study exploring how avatars with disability signifiers (DS) affect the social experiences of people with disabilities (PWD) in social virtual reality platforms, specifically VRChat. Disability signifiers are visua…

  • social virtual reality
  • disability signifiers
  • avatars
  • harassment
  • identity expression
  • disability disclosure
  • VRChat
  • diary study