Literature Reviews

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

• Beyond Accuracy: Auditing Allocative Harms in Facial-Gesture Recognition for People with Motor Impairments

  Siyu Zhang, Yelu Gu, Kirsten Cater, Oussama Metatla (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This paper challenges the conventional framing of facial-gesture recognition accuracy as a purely technical property, and reframes it as a sensorimotor alignment problem between user intention and algorithmic interpretation. The authors conducted a m…

  • facial gesture recognition
  • motor impairment
  • algorithmic fairness
  • allocative harm
  • accessibility
  • computer vision
  • sensorimotor
  • hands-free interaction
  • algorithmic audit