Literature Reviews

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

• User Experience of Autonomous Ferries: What Passengers Need and How to Design for It

  Felix-Marcel Petermann, Ole Andreas Alsos, Mina Saghafian, Erik Veitch, Grace Winifred Turner, Maria Letizia Potenza (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  Petermann and colleagues report one of the first in-depth qualitative studies of passenger experience on an autonomous urban ferry, drawing on 164 post-ride semi-structured interviews conducted during a three-week public trial of milliAmpere 2 in Tro…

  • autonomous vehicles
  • autonomous ferry
  • public transport accessibility
  • human-machine interface
  • automation transparency
  • universal design
  • travel chain
  • embodied experience
  • user experience

• Towards Designing Mobile Apps for Independent Travel: Exploring Current Barriers and Opportunities for Supporting Young Adults with Down's Syndrome

  A. M. Khan, P. Langdon, J. Bichard, P. J. Clarkson, S. Tunnard, L. Dubiel, P. Dunlop, M. Lennon (2021) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This comprehensive study uses a three-cycle Participatory Action Research (PAR) methodology to understand barriers to independent travel for young adults with Down's Syndrome (DS) and develop a smartphone app prototype to address them. The research i…

  • Down syndrome
  • intellectual disabilities
  • independent travel
  • public transport accessibility
  • wayfinding
  • mobile apps
  • participatory action research
  • co-design
  • navigation
  • cognitive accessibility