Literature Reviews

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

• SocialCue: Exploring the Design Space of Social Wayfinding Assistants for Blind and Low Vision People

  Veronica Bossio Botero, Sidharth Sharma, Ruoyu Iris Xu, Lisa Maria DiSalvo, Ritvik Sharma, Brian A. Smith (2026) — Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’26)

  SocialCue is a wearable technology probe that targets a problem most assistive navigation work ignores: not where to walk, but how to read and act inside an unfolding social scene. The authors argue that existing tools for blind and low vision (BLV) …

  • blind and low vision
  • social navigation
  • wayfinding
  • wearable technology
  • computer vision
  • spatial audio
  • technology probe
  • nonverbal communication
  • assistive technology

• How Does Delegation in Social Interaction Evolve Over Time? Navigation with a Robot for Blind People

  Rayna Hata, Masaki Kuribayashi, Allan Wang, Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  Hata and colleagues run a three-week longitudinal study of how six blind participants delegate social navigation tasks to a guide robot in the Miraikan science museum. The paper pushes back against the default assumption that accessible navigation ro…

  • assistive robotics
  • navigation
  • blindness and low vision
  • visual impairment
  • shared control
  • social navigation
  • longitudinal study
  • human-robot interaction
  • delegation
  • museum accessibility