Literature Reviews

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

• From Autonomy to Sovereignty — A New Telos for Socially Assistive Technology

  JiWoong (Joon) Jang, Patrick Carrington, Andrew Begel (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This CHI 2026 theory paper argues that assistive-technology (AT) research has long treated 'independence' as its primary goal — a framing codified in the 1988 U.S. Technology-Related Assistance Act — even though disabled people's lived experience is …

  • social accessibility
  • assistive technology
  • relational sovereignty
  • interdependence
  • independence
  • crip technoscience
  • disability justice
  • self-determination theory
  • symbolic interactionism
  • posthumanism
  • design theory
  • systematic literature review
  • power and governance