Literature Reviews

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

• From Autonomy to Sovereignty — A New Telos for Socially Assistive Technology

  JiWoong (Joon) Jang, Patrick Carrington, Andrew Begel (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This CHI 2026 theory paper argues that assistive-technology (AT) research has long treated 'independence' as its primary goal — a framing codified in the 1988 U.S. Technology-Related Assistance Act — even though disabled people's lived experience is …

  • social accessibility
  • assistive technology
  • relational sovereignty
  • interdependence
  • independence
  • crip technoscience
  • disability justice
  • self-determination theory
  • symbolic interactionism
  • posthumanism
  • design theory
  • systematic literature review
  • power and governance

• Beyond Fun: Players' Experiences of Accessible Rehabilitation Gaming for Spinal Cord Injury

  Gabriele Cimolino, Sussan Askari, T.C. Nicholas Graham (2021) — The 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2021)

  This paper explores how accessible rehabilitation games can affect the experiences of patients with spinal cord injury beyond simply making exercise more fun. Six participants with spinal cord injury (three with tetraplegia, three with paraplegia, ag…

  • spinal cord injury
  • rehabilitation
  • game accessibility
  • digital games
  • assistive technology
  • mental health
  • self-determination theory
  • qualitative research