Literature Reviews

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

• "Dump it, Destroy it, Send it to Data Heaven": Blind People's Expectations for Visual Privacy in Visual Assistance Technologies

  Abigale Stangl, Emma Sadjo, Pardis Emami-Naeini, Yang Wang, Danna Gurari, Leah Findlater (2023) — Proceedings of the 20th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper investigates the visual privacy expectations of 16 totally blind individuals who use visual assistance technologies (VATs) such as Aira, Be My Eyes, Seeing AI, and Envision AI. VATs provide blind users access to visual information by conne…

  • visual privacy
  • blind users
  • visual assistance technology
  • privacy expectations
  • data protection
  • AI ethics
  • camera-based assistive technology
  • obfuscation

• Trying to Piece It Together: Exploring Accessible Error Detection in Emerging Privacy Techniques With Blind People

  Rahaf Alharbi, Angela D Cheong, Jaylin Herskovitz, Robin N. Brewer, Sarita Schoenebeck (2025) — ASSETS 2025: 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper investigates how blind people might detect errors in AI-enabled privacy techniques (obfuscation) used within visual assistance technologies (VAT). Blind people routinely use VAT apps like Seeing AI, Be My Eyes, Aira, and TapTapSee to acces…

  • visual assistance technologies
  • privacy
  • obfuscation
  • AI error detection
  • assessment descriptors
  • blind users
  • sighted bias
  • transparency
  • trust
  • qualitative research
  • focus groups