Literature Reviews

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

• Fluid Independence: Powered Wheelchair Users' Perspectives on Autonomy, Care, and Assistive Technology

  Md Tanzil Shahria, Nayan Banik, Md Samiul Haque Sunny, Mohammad H Rahman (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This CHI 2026 paper reports a large qualitative study of 55 powered-wheelchair users (PWUs) across ten U.S. states, using 45-minute semi-structured interviews and Braun-and-Clarke thematic analysis to examine how independence is experienced, negotiat…

  • powered wheelchair
  • assistive technology
  • participatory design
  • independence
  • caregiving
  • technology abandonment
  • disability justice
  • relational autonomy
  • qualitative research

• Factors Leading to the Successful Use of Voice Recognition Technology

  Tanya Goette (1998) — Proceedings of the Third International ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '98)

  This paper from Georgia College & State University presents results from a field study investigating why voice recognition technology (VRT) succeeds for some individuals with disabilities and fails for others. Drawing on expectancy theory and innovat…

  • speech recognition
  • assistive technology
  • technology abandonment
  • motor impairment
  • user studies
  • assistive technology adoption
  • empirical studies

• Minor Resistance: The Everyday Politics and Power Dynamics of Assistive Technology Adoption

  Stacy Hsueh, Danielle Van Dusen, Anat Caspi, Jennifer Mankoff (2025) — ASSETS 2025: 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper proposes a power-aware framework for understanding assistive technology adoption that moves beyond the traditional "fit" model, where adoption signals good fit between device and user while abandonment signals poor fit. Drawing from an eig…

  • assistive technology
  • power dynamics
  • social inequity
  • intersectionality
  • ethnography
  • technology adoption
  • technology abandonment
  • disability justice