Literature Reviews

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

• Autiverse: Eliciting Autistic Adolescents' Daily Narratives through AI-guided Multimodal Journaling

  Migyeong Yang, Kyungah Lee, Jinyoung Han, SoHyun Park, Young-Ho Kim (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  Yang and colleagues present Autiverse, a tablet-based AI-guided multimodal journaling app for autistic adolescents with functional verbal abilities (formerly classified as Level 1 / high-functioning autism). The paper addresses a well-documented gap:…

  • autism
  • adolescents
  • journaling
  • large language models
  • conversational agents
  • scaffolding
  • visual supports
  • narrative skills
  • multimodal interaction
  • AI peer

• From Daily Song to Daily Self: Supporting Emotional Growth of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Individuals through Generative AI Songwriting

  Youjin Choi, JinYoung Yoo, JaeYoung Moon, Yoonjae Kim, Eun Young Lee, Jennifer G Kim, Jin-Hyuk Hong (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This CHI 2026 paper introduces SoulNote, a generative-AI songwriting system designed to support sustained emotional growth for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) individuals through music-based journaling. The authors argue that prior music-GenAI accessi…

  • Generative AI
  • Deaf and Hard of Hearing
  • songwriting
  • mental health
  • music accessibility
  • conversational agent
  • journaling
  • emotion regulation
  • large language model
  • diary study