Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
7 results found tagged peer support.
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I Can Do It: Exploring Voice Assistants for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
This CHI 2026 paper reports an eight-week deployment of screen-based voice assistants (Google Nest Hub and Amazon Echo Show 8) with 17 adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) — including co-occurring autism spectrum disorder, cerebral palsy, Rett …
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Beyond the Manual: Mapping Peer-Generated Content about Wheelchair Care and Adaptation on YouTube
This CHI 2026 paper presents a content analysis of 290 YouTube videos (from 194 unique channels, 8,629 initial results narrowed via inclusion/exclusion) and 800 sampled comments from a total 10,781 harvested, examining how wheelchair users and their …
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The Intersecting Liminality of Technology Adoption and Disability during Life Transitions
This paper introduces the concept of "intersecting liminality" to explain how people with disabilities navigate technology adoption during major life transitions. The research combines two complementary studies: semi-structured interviews with 22 bli…
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In-context Q&A to Support Blind People Using Smartphones
This paper addresses a pervasive but understudied problem: the daily challenges blind people face when using smartphone applications go far beyond the touchscreen gesture difficulties that most accessibility research focuses on. The researchers condu…
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Exploring Collective Medical Knowledge and Tensions in Online ADHD Communities
This doctoral consortium paper proposes a dissertation investigating how online ADHD communities on social media platforms serve as digitally-mediated support systems for neurodivergent individuals. The author, a neurodivergent HCI researcher at UC S…
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Understanding Peer-to-Peer Instructional Support in an Online Community for Blind Audio Producers
This paper examines how blind and low-vision audio producers seek and provide instructional support through an online text-based Q&A mailing list community centered around using Logic Pro, a professional digital audio workstation (DAW), with the Voic…
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Exploring how People with Spinal Cord Injuries Seek Support on Social Media
This paper presents a content analysis of 960 post-threads from two SCI-specific subreddit communities (r/spinalcordinjuries and r/SpinalCordInjuries) to understand what topics people with spinal cord injuries discuss online and what types of support…