Literature Reviews

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

• Beyond Prompt-Following: Empowering Social Agency in Autistic Children through Narrative Framing

  Min Zhou, Xinheng Song, Xiaolan Peng, Mingxuan Jin, Soumya C. Barathi (2026) — Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’26)

  NarraSocial is a Unity-based virtual environment for autistic children aged 6–10 that reframes social-skills interventions away from the prompt-and-response loop characteristic of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and most VR-based social skills traini…

  • autism
  • autistic children
  • social agency
  • narrative design
  • virtual environment
  • serious games
  • neurodiversity
  • interaction design
  • social skills

• Designing Auditory Displays to Facilitate Object Localization in Virtual Haptic 3D Environments

  Koen Crommentuijn, Fredrik Winberg (2006) — Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '06)

  This paper investigates five different auditory display designs to help blind users locate objects in a virtual haptic 3D environment explored with a PHANToM Desktop haptic device. While haptic devices give visually impaired users the ability to expl…

  • auditory display
  • sonification
  • haptic feedback
  • virtual environment
  • blindness
  • visual impairment
  • spatial audio
  • multimodal interaction

• Virtual Environments for Social Skills Training: The Importance of Scaffolding in Practice

  Steven J. Kerr, Helen R. Neale, Sue V. G. Cobb (2002) — Proceedings of the Fifth International ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets 02)

  This paper describes the design and initial testing of two single-user virtual environment (VE) scenarios developed as part of the AS Interactive project, a multidisciplinary effort involving VR developers, psychologists, human factors researchers, a…

  • autism
  • virtual environment
  • social skills
  • scaffolding
  • education
  • Asperger syndrome
  • constructivism
  • virtual reality