Literature Reviews

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

• Providing Good Memory Cues for People with Episodic Memory Impairment

  Matthew L. Lee, Anind K. Dey (2007) — Proceedings of the 9th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '07)

  This paper from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University presents two studies investigating how caregivers use cues to support episodic memory recollection in people with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and what types of cues a…

  • dementia
  • Alzheimer's disease
  • episodic memory
  • lifelogging
  • memory cue
  • caregiver burden
  • aging
  • cognitive assistive technology
  • reminiscence

• Friendsourcing the Unmet Needs of People with Dementia

  João Martins, José Carilho, Oliver Schnell, Carlos Duarte, Francisco M. Couto, Luís Carriço, Tiago Guerreiro (2014) — Proceedings of the 11th Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper presents a system that combines automatic smartphone-based lifelogging with friendsourcing — a form of crowdsourcing limited to a trusted social network — to create a cognitive prosthesis for people with dementia (PwD). With an estimated 3…

  • dementia
  • cognitive prosthesis
  • friendsourcing
  • crowdsourcing
  • reminiscence therapy
  • caregiver support
  • social networks
  • mobile accessibility
  • lifelogging
  • aging