Literature Reviews

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

• Creating 3D Printed Assistive Technology Through Design Shortcuts: Leveraging Digital Fabrication Services to Incorporate 3D Printing into the Physical Therapy Classroom

  Erin Higgins, William Berkley Easley, Karen L. Gordes, Amy Hurst, Foad Hamidi (2022) — Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This paper investigates how to integrate 3D printing into physical therapy (PT) education without requiring PT students to become experts in CAD or digital fabrication. Previous research showed that while 3D printing has great potential for creating …

  • 3D printing
  • assistive technology
  • digital fabrication
  • physical therapy
  • education
  • makerspaces
  • co-design
  • DIY assistive technology
  • interdisciplinary collaboration

• Exploring Collaboration to Center the Deaf Community in Sign Language AI

  Rie Kamikubo, Abraham Glasser, Alex X Lu, Hal Daumé III, Hernisa Kacorri, Danielle Bragg (2025) — ASSETS 2025: 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper investigates the critical disconnect between machine learning (ML) practitioners and Deaf American Sign Language (ASL) signers in the development of sign language AI technologies. Despite sign language processing's promise for societal inc…

  • Deaf community
  • sign language
  • American Sign Language
  • machine learning
  • participatory AI
  • co-design
  • interdisciplinary collaboration
  • AI ethics
  • community-centered design
  • sign language recognition