Literature Reviews

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

• Designing Socially Assistive Robots for Perinatal Depression Screening: Insights and Ethical Considerations from Two Exploratory Studies

  Mengyu Zhong, Lux Miranda, Fotios C. Papadopoulos, Katie Winkle, Alkistis Skalkidou, Ginevra Castellano (2026) — ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction

  This paper reports two exploratory studies investigating the use of Socially Assistive Robots (SARs) for Perinatal Depression (PND) screening. PND affects up to 10% of individuals during pregnancy or postpartum, yet 50% of antenatal depression cases …

  • socially assistive robots
  • mental health
  • perinatal depression
  • participatory design
  • human-robot interaction
  • ethics
  • healthcare technology
  • vulnerable populations
  • trustworthy AI

• Co-designing Socially Assistive Sidekicks for Motion-based AAC

  Stephanie Valencia, Michal Luria, Amy Pavel, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Henny Admoni (2021) — Proceedings of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '21)

  This paper explores how socially assistive robots, framed as "sidekicks," could provide AAC users with a nonverbal channel of communication to support their conversational goals. While AAC devices enable speech-based communication through synthesized…

  • AAC
  • nonverbal communication
  • socially assistive robots
  • co-design
  • human-robot interaction
  • cerebral palsy
  • motor disability
  • participatory design