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

• AAC with Automated Vocabulary from Photographs: Insights from School and Speech-Language Therapy Settings

  Mauricio Fontana de Vargas, Jiamin Dai, Karyn Moffatt (2022) — Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '22)

  This paper presents Click AAC, a prototype mobile application that automatically generates situation-specific communication boards from photographs using computer vision and natural language processing. Traditional symbol-based AAC devices organize v…

  • augmentative and alternative communication
  • AAC
  • autism
  • computer vision
  • just-in-time vocabulary
  • visual scene display
  • aided language stimulation
  • complex communication needs
  • artificial intelligence
  • symbol-based communication