Literature Reviews

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

• Designing Socially Assistive Robots for Perinatal Depression Screening: Insights and Ethical Considerations from Two Exploratory Studies

  Mengyu Zhong, Lux Miranda, Fotios C. Papadopoulos, Katie Winkle, Alkistis Skalkidou, Ginevra Castellano (2026) — ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction

  This paper reports two exploratory studies investigating the use of Socially Assistive Robots (SARs) for Perinatal Depression (PND) screening. PND affects up to 10% of individuals during pregnancy or postpartum, yet 50% of antenatal depression cases …

  • socially assistive robots
  • mental health
  • perinatal depression
  • participatory design
  • human-robot interaction
  • ethics
  • healthcare technology
  • vulnerable populations
  • trustworthy AI

• A Pool of Representative Users for Accessibility Research: Seeing through the Eyes of the Users

  Marianne Dee, Vicki L. Hanson (2016) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

  This paper documents the establishment, management, and lessons learned from the SiDE (Social Inclusion through the Digital Economy) User Pool, a large participant pool of over 800 older adults created at the University of Dundee to support accessibi…

  • research methods
  • participant recruitment
  • older adults
  • user pool
  • accessibility research
  • digital inclusion
  • vulnerable populations
  • ethics