Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
8 results found tagged scaffolding.
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Autiverse: Eliciting Autistic Adolescents' Daily Narratives through AI-guided Multimodal Journaling
Yang and colleagues present Autiverse, a tablet-based AI-guided multimodal journaling app for autistic adolescents with functional verbal abilities (formerly classified as Level 1 / high-functioning autism). The paper addresses a well-documented gap:…
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Contextual Scaffolding and Self-Efficacy: Supporting Computer Skill Development among Blind Learners in India
This paper presents a four-month contextual inquiry at two Indian computer training centers serving 94 blind or visually impaired (BVI) students — one urban center in Bengaluru focused on job-oriented ICT training (KEONICS certification) and one rura…
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Virtual Environments for Social Skills Training: The Importance of Scaffolding in Practice
This paper describes the design and initial testing of two single-user virtual environment (VE) scenarios developed as part of the AS Interactive project, a multidisciplinary effort involving VR developers, psychologists, human factors researchers, a…
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Bridging the Digital Divide: Enhancing Digital Inclusion of Blind or Partially Sighted and Deaf or Hard of Hearing Individuals in Low- and Middle-Income Countries through Smartphones as Assistive Technology
This multi-country study evaluates a two-day scaffolded digital skills training intervention designed to improve smartphone proficiency among blind or partially sighted (BPS) and deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) individuals in Brazil, India, and Kenya. …
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Feedback and Guidance to Support Children with Intellectual Disabilities in Discovery Learning with a Tangible Interactive Tabletop
This research investigates how tangible interactive technology can support discovery-based learning for children with intellectual disabilities—a population for whom unstructured exploration is particularly challenging due to difficulties with abstra…
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Help Kiosk: An Augmented Display System to Assist Older Adults to Learn How to Use Smart Phones
This demonstration paper presents Help Kiosk (HK), a system that uses a large 19-inch touchscreen display to temporarily augment a smartphone's small screen during learning episodes for older adults. The system addresses two converging trends: rapidl…
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Turning Heads: Designing Engaging Immersive Video Experiences to Support People with Intellectual Disability when Learning Everyday Living Skills
This paper presents findings from a participatory design process exploring how 360-degree video viewed through head-mounted displays can support people with intellectual disabilities in learning everyday living skills. The research was conducted over…
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Scaffolding Digital Literacy Through Digital Skills Training for Disabled People in the Global South
This paper presents a digital skills training intervention for 138 blind and partially sighted (BPS) and deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) people across India and Kenya, grounded in Vygotsky's Scaffolding Theory. The study addresses the digital divide f…