Literature Reviews

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

• Resilience to Disruption: Accessible Navigation for People with Visual Impairment

  Trevor Cross, Ishani Pandey, Sophia S Jit, Robert Soden, Priyank Chandra (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This paper investigates how people with visual impairments (PwVI) actually navigate urban environments, especially during severe weather events such as snowstorms, high winds, and icy conditions, and how digital navigation technologies do or do not s…

  • blind and low vision
  • navigation
  • wayfinding
  • orientation and mobility
  • crisis informatics
  • resilience
  • journey mapping
  • assistive technology
  • crip time

• Exploring the Role of Generative AI in Dementia Resilience Building Activities: Uncovering Opportunities and Challenges

  Sushant Kot, Margi Engineer, Elizabeth Gilman, Christopher Flathmann, Alisha Pradhan, Emma Dixon (2026) — ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

  This qualitative HCI study examines how people with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and mild-to-moderate dementia envision using commercially available generative AI applications in everyday life. Rather than designing for this population from the ou…

  • dementia
  • generative AI
  • large language models
  • resilience
  • cognitive accessibility
  • mild cognitive impairment
  • qualitative research
  • HCI
  • dementia advocacy
  • co-design