Literature Reviews

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

• GuideMe: A VLM-Based System Assisting Independent Smartphone Learning for Older Adults

  Kairong Fang, Jiesi Zhang, Shi-Ting Ni, Pan Hui, Yuyang Wang (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  GuideMe tackles a problem familiar to anyone who has watched an older relative struggle to learn a new smartphone app: the combined weight of declining vision, memory, and motor function plus unfamiliar terminology makes independent learning extremel…

  • older adults
  • aging
  • cognitive accessibility
  • vision-language model
  • conversational agent
  • independent learning
  • smartphone accessibility
  • in-situ guidance
  • mobile accessibility
  • assistive technology
  • intent articulation
  • clarifying questions