Literature Reviews

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

• NarrAid: Supporting Storytelling of People with Aphasia via Generative Visual Scene Displays

  Xiangfei Hu, Xiuqi Zheng, Qi Liu, Zejian Li, Ying Zhang, Lu Wang, Xipei Ren (2026) — Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’26)

  NarrAid is a generative AI-driven Visual Scene Display (VSD) system designed to support storytelling, not just basic wants and needs, for people with aphasia (PWA). The authors argue that existing AAC tools, including traditional VSDs, support functi…

  • aphasia
  • augmentative and alternative communication
  • visual scene display
  • storytelling
  • generative AI
  • large language models
  • text-to-image
  • human-AI co-creation
  • assistive technology

• Interface Support for Evaluating Disability Bias in AI-Generated Images

  Kelly Avery Mack, Lucy Jiang, Lotus Zhang, Leah Findlater (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  Mack and colleagues investigate whether interface-level interventions can help users of generative text-to-image (T2I) tools recognise and avoid disability stereotypes in AI-generated images. The authors frame the work around a gap in AI safety: whil…

  • AI bias
  • generative AI
  • text-to-image
  • disability representation
  • disability stereotypes
  • AI auditing
  • end-user auditing
  • prompt engineering
  • AI over-reliance
  • DALL-E

• AltCanvas: A Tile-Based Editor for Visual Content Creation with Generative AI for Blind or Visually Impaired People

  Seonghee Lee, Maho Kohga, Steve Landau, Sile O'Modhrain, Hari Subramonyam (2024) — Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This paper presents AltCanvas, a generative AI-powered illustration tool that enables blind or visually impaired (BVI) users to create visual content through a novel tile-based interface. The system addresses a fundamental gap between two existing ap…

  • visual impairment
  • generative AI
  • image creation
  • tactile graphics
  • sonification
  • accessible design tools
  • text-to-image
  • spatial cognition

• Exploring Older Adults' Reminiscing with ChatGPT and Text-to-Image Technology

  Yuxiang Zhai, Jiawen Zhang, Jihong Jeung (2024) — Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '24)

  This short paper explores the potential of generative AI technologies — specifically ChatGPT for conversational elicitation and text-to-image generation (DALL-E) — as tools to support reminiscence storytelling by older adults. Reminiscence, the act o…

  • older adults
  • generative AI
  • reminiscence therapy
  • well-being
  • storytelling
  • text-to-image
  • conversational AI