Literature Reviews

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

• Context-Aware Prompting to Transition Autonomously Through Vocational Tasks for Individuals with Cognitive Impairments

  Yao-Jen Chang, Wan Chih Chang, Tsen-Yung Wang (2009) — Proceedings of the 11th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '09)

  This paper presents a context-aware task prompting system designed to help individuals with cognitive impairments work more independently in vocational settings. The system uses Bluetooth beacons placed at key work locations ("points of work") to tri…

  • cognitive accessibility
  • task prompting
  • supported employment
  • context-aware computing
  • intellectual disability
  • traumatic brain injury
  • ubiquitous computing
  • vocational rehabilitation
  • distributed cognition

• Kinempt: A Kinect-Based Prompting System to Transition Autonomously Through Vocational Tasks for Individuals with Cognitive Impairments

  Yu-Chi Tsai (2012) — Proceedings of the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2012)

  This short paper presents Kinempt (a portmanteau of "kinetic" and "prompt"), a Kinect-based task prompting system designed to help individuals with cognitive impairments perform vocational tasks independently. The research is motivated by the fact th…

  • cognitive impairment
  • Kinect
  • task prompting
  • vocational rehabilitation
  • supported employment
  • assistive technology
  • gesture recognition
  • depth sensing
  • food preparation
  • job training

• Vocational Rehabilitation of Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder with Virtual Reality

  Lal Bozgeyikli, Evren Bozgeyikli, Andrew Raij, Redwan Alqasemi, Srinivas Katkoori, Rajiv Dubey (2017) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper presents VR4VR, a comprehensive virtual reality system designed to train individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder on transferable job skills. The system addresses a critical employment gap—while 66% of people with disabilities want employ…

  • virtual reality
  • autism spectrum disorder
  • vocational rehabilitation
  • job training
  • immersive technology
  • user-centered design

• An overview of programs and projects at the Rehabilitation Research and Development Center

  David L. Jaffe (1994) — Proceedings of the First Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '94)

  This paper provides an overview of the VA Rehabilitation Research and Development Center (RR&D), a federal laboratory at the Palo Alto VA Medical Center dedicated to developing assistive technologies for disabled veterans. With approximately fifty re…

  • rehabilitation engineering
  • technology transfer
  • spinal cord injury
  • deafblindness
  • wheelchair accessibility
  • wayfinding
  • assistive technology
  • vocational rehabilitation
  • veterans

• AT@Work: Intelligent Assistive Technologies for Enabling Workplace Inclusion

  Mario Heinz-Jakobs, Sinem Görmez, Hailey L Johnson, Jens Gerken, Max Pascher, Giulia Barbareschi, Saminda Sundeepa Balasuriya, Laurianne Sitbon, Carsten Röcker (2025) — ASSETS 2025: 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This workshop paper examines the role of digital assistive technologies (ATs) in advancing vocational inclusion for people with disabilities. Despite increasing policy efforts such as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabi…

  • assistive technology
  • workplace inclusion
  • vocational rehabilitation
  • collaborative robots
  • cognitive disability
  • disability divide
  • digital equity
  • human-robot interaction
  • worker assistance systems