Literature Reviews

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

• Auto-Generating Personas from User Reviews in VR App Stores

  Yi Wang, Kexin Cheng, Xiao Liu, Chetan Arora, John Grundy, Thuong Hoang, Henry Been-Lirn Duh (2026) — Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’26)

  This CHI 2026 Extended Abstract reports on an auto-generated persona system developed to help undergraduate students surface accessibility requirements in virtual reality design projects. The authors argue that personas are well-established in user-c…

  • virtual reality
  • VR accessibility
  • personas
  • requirements engineering
  • large language models
  • retrieval-augmented generation
  • accessibility education
  • user-centered design
  • empathy

• A Proxy Stakeholder Approach to Requirements Engineering for Inclusive Navigation

  Wei Wang, Anuradha Madugalla, John Grundy, John McIntosh, Pieter Hartel (2026) — ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

  This paper introduces a "proxy stakeholder" framework for Requirements Engineering (RE) aimed at designing inclusive navigation software for individuals with cognitive impairments (IwCI). The authors argue that traditional RE elicitation techniques—i…

  • cognitive accessibility
  • wayfinding
  • requirements engineering
  • proxy stakeholders
  • inclusive navigation
  • inclusive design
  • mixed methods
  • caregivers
  • support workers