Literature Reviews

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

• Beyond Omakase: Designing Shared Control for Navigation Robots with Blind People

  Rie Kamikubo, Seita Kayukawa, Yuka Kaniwa, Allan Wang, Hernisa Kacorri, Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa (2025) — Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25)

  Kamikubo and colleagues investigate how autonomous navigation robots for blind users should balance robot autonomy against user control, arguing that current systems default to what they call 'omakase' — a Japanese term meaning 'I leave it to you' — …

  • assistive robotics
  • blindness and low vision
  • human-robot interaction
  • social robot navigation
  • shared control
  • autonomy
  • agency
  • museum accessibility
  • social acceptability
  • inclusive design