Literature Reviews

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

• Designing Adaptive User Interfaces for mHealth Applications Targeting Chronic Disease: A User-Centered Approach

  Wei Wang, John Grundy, Hourieh Khalajzadeh, Anuradha Madugalla, Humphrey O. Obie (2026) — ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

  This paper from Monash and Deakin Universities addresses a persistent gap in mHealth design: most chronic disease self-management apps treat users as a homogeneous group, ignoring the wide variation in capabilities, health status, cultural background…

  • mHealth
  • adaptive user interfaces
  • chronic disease
  • accessibility
  • user-centered design
  • mobile accessibility
  • guidelines
  • self-management

• What Health Topics Older Adults Want to Track: A Participatory Design Study

  Jennifer L. Davidson, Carlos Jensen (2013) — Proceedings of the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '13)

  This paper presents a participatory design study investigating what health topics older adults (aged 65+) want to track using mobile health (mHealth) applications. The authors argue that most mHealth app developers fail to conduct needs assessments w…

  • older adults
  • aging
  • participatory design
  • mHealth
  • mobile accessibility
  • health technology
  • smartphone applications
  • aging in place
  • user-centered design
  • digital health