Literature Reviews

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

• Deaf and Hard of Hearing Access to Intelligent Personal Assistants: Comparison of Voice-Based Options with an LLM-Powered Touch Interface

  Paige S DeVries, Michaela Okosi, Ming Li, Nora Dunphy, Gidey Gezae, Dante Conway, Abraham Glasser, Raja Kushalnagar, Christian Vogler (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This mixed-methods study compares three input methods for Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) people who use their voice to interact with an Amazon Echo Show: (1) natural deaf-accented speech via Alexa's built-in ASR, (2) Wizard-of-Oz 'facilitated English…

  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • voice assistant
  • intelligent personal assistant
  • automatic speech recognition
  • deaf-accented speech
  • large language model
  • accessibility
  • smart home