Literature Reviews

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

• Using participatory activities with seniors to critique, build, and evaluate mobile phones

  Michael Massimi, Ronald M. Baecker, Michael Wu (2007) — Proceedings of the 9th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '07)

  This Assets '07 paper from University of Toronto engages older adults not as subjects of a usability study but as co-designers of a mobile phone system. Massimi, Baecker, and Wu argue that the two dominant trends in 'senior-friendly' phone design — o…

  • mobile accessibility
  • older adults
  • aging
  • participatory design
  • co-design
  • paper prototyping
  • usability
  • design guidelines
  • scenario-based design
  • PICTIVE

• Building Narratives and Probing Concepts: Preparing Materials for Co-Design with Autistic Livestreamers

  Terrance Mok, Tyson Hartley, Anthony Tang, Adam McCrimmon, Lora Oehlberg (2025) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper presents scenario-based design (SBD) materials developed to facilitate future co-design sessions with autistic livestreamers on Twitch. Building on prior ethnographic research involving semi-structured interviews with 10 autistic adult str…

  • autism
  • livestreaming
  • Twitch
  • co-design
  • scenario-based design
  • neurodiversity
  • participatory design
  • social media accessibility