Literature Reviews

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

• Somatic Drawing Tool: 3D Body Sheet as Material for Articulating Synaesthetic Experiences

  Mamoru Watanabe, Oussama Metatla, Atau Tanaka (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This CHI 2026 paper reports a three-year participatory co-design cycle with synaesthetes - people who involuntarily experience cross-sensory perceptions such as seeing colours when hearing music or feeling tactile sensations when reading letters. The…

  • synaesthesia
  • sensory articulation
  • soma design
  • body sheet
  • VR drawing
  • multisensory interaction
  • cross-modal
  • participatory design
  • virtual reality
  • embodied interaction

• Co-Ideating a Digital Pain Companion: Exploring How Music Can Support Daily Chronic Pain Self-Management

  Bleiz M. Del Sette, Charalampos Saitis (2026) — ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare

  This paper presents the co-ideation of the Digital Pain Companion (DPC), a proposed music-integrating wearable interface for daily chronic pain self-management. Grounded in the psychosocial dimensions of chronic pain rather than biomedical symptom tr…

  • chronic pain
  • co-design
  • music therapy
  • wearable technology
  • self-management
  • pain communication
  • soma design
  • sonification
  • person-centred design

• Beadwork Bridge: Understanding and Exploring the Opportunities of Beadwork in Enriching School Education for Blind and Low Vision (BLV) People

  Shumeng Zhang, Weiyue Lin, Zisu Li, Ruiqi Jiang, Chen Liang, Mingming Fan, Raul Masu (2024) — ASSETS '24: Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper investigates how beadwork — the craft of creating patterns and objects by threading beads onto wire, string, or thread — serves as a rich educational tool for blind and low-vision (BLV) students, and explores what the HCI field can learn f…

  • blind and low vision
  • education
  • beadwork
  • tactile learning
  • embodied cognition
  • soma design
  • tangible interaction
  • mathematics education
  • creativity
  • vocational training