Literature Reviews

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

• From Barriers to Blueprints: A Critical Systematic Review of Older Adults and Social VR

  Sho Conte, Cosmin Munteanu, Aava Sapkota (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  Conte, Munteanu, and Sapkota conduct a critical systematic review of 85 HCI papers (2017-2024) on older adults and social VR, arguing that the dominant narrative — which frames older adults as deficient users who struggle to adopt VR — is itself a pr…

  • social VR
  • older adults
  • ageism
  • epistemic injustice
  • resistant reading
  • critical gerontology
  • metaverse
  • virtual reality accessibility
  • systematic review
  • design justice

• VRBubble: Enhancing Peripheral Awareness of Avatars for People with Visual Impairments in Social Virtual Reality

  Tiger F. Ji, Brianna Cochran, Yuhang Zhao (2022) — Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2022)

  This paper introduces VRBubble, an audio-based interaction technique designed to make social virtual reality environments accessible to people with visual impairments (PVI). While social VR platforms like VRChat and Rec Room are growing rapidly as sp…

  • virtual reality accessibility
  • visual impairment
  • spatial audio
  • proxemics
  • social interaction
  • peripheral awareness
  • audio feedback
  • earcons
  • assistive technology
  • avatar awareness