Literature Reviews

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

• Understanding How Sensory Changes Experienced by Individuals with a Range of Age-Related Cognitive Changes Can Affect Technology Use

  Emma Dixon, Amanda Lazar (2022) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This qualitative study investigates how sensory changes experienced by people with age-related cognitive changes—including dementia, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and subjective cognitive decline (SCD)—affect their technology use. The researchers …

  • dementia
  • cognitive accessibility
  • mild cognitive impairment
  • sensory changes
  • older adults
  • qualitative research
  • assistive technology

• The Role of Sensory Changes in Everyday Technology use by People with Mild to Moderate Dementia

  Emma Dixon, Amanda Lazar (2020) — Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2020)

  This qualitative study investigates how sensory changes associated with dementia interact with everyday technology use — a topic almost entirely overlooked in prior research, which has focused predominantly on cognitive support such as memory aids, t…

  • dementia
  • sensory changes
  • everyday technology
  • personalization
  • cognitive accessibility
  • aging
  • assistive technology
  • sensory processing