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• Accessibility in Textile Crafting: A Critical Reflection on Making Technology, Disability, and Community

  Shanel Wu, Audrey Girouard · 2026 · ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This study examines what accessibility means for textile crafters with disabilities through a cross-sectional survey of 184 participants. The authors—both disabled/neurodivergent crafters themselves—use critical participatory action research (CPAR) to investigate how different…

  accessible making · textile crafts · DIY assistive technology · maker culture · chronic illness

• Accessibility in Textile Crafting: A Critical Reflection on Making Technology, Disability, and Community

  Shanel Wu, Audrey Girouard · 2026 · ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper examines what accessibility means in the context of textile crafting through a cross-sectional survey of 184 crafters with disabilities. The authors—both disabled/neurodivergent crafters and HCI researchers—adopt a critical participatory action research (CPAR)…

  textile crafts · crafting communities · online communities · accessibility · participatory action research

• Rethinking Interdependence in HCI: A Systematic Literature Review for Understanding its Use in Accessibility Studies

  Zeynep Yildiz, Kathrin Gerling · 2026 · Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This paper presents a PRISMA-guided systematic literature review of 70 HCI accessibility papers that engage with the concept of interdependence, examining how the field has conceptualized and applied it. The authors started from 894 papers in the ACM Digital Library, screening…

  interdependence · disability studies · disability activism · systematic review · HCI

• "We Figure It Out Together": A Framework for Relational Communication in Disabled and Neurodivergent LGBTQIA+ Romantic Partnerships

  Kirk Andrew Crawford, Foad Hamidi · 2026 · Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  Crawford and Hamidi investigate how disabled and neurodivergent LGBTQIA+ romantic partners collaboratively build and sustain communication practices over time, an area largely overlooked in HCI research that has tended to focus on single points in time or on specific…

  cognitive accessibility · neurodiversity · LGBTQIA+ · disability · intersectionality

• From Autonomy to Sovereignty — A New Telos for Socially Assistive Technology

  JiWoong (Joon) Jang, Patrick Carrington, Andrew Begel · 2026 · Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This CHI 2026 theory paper argues that assistive-technology (AT) research has long treated 'independence' as its primary goal — a framing codified in the 1988 U.S. Technology-Related Assistance Act — even though disabled people's lived experience is saturated with…

  social accessibility · assistive technology · relational sovereignty · interdependence · independence

• Let's Make a Community [of Practice]: Using Community-Based Participatory Design to Support Interdependence

  Elaine Czech, Dan Bennett, Grace Jane Stangroome, Vanessa Aisyahsari Hanschke, Amy Ingold, Paul Marshall, Oussama Metatla · 2026 · Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  Accessibility and HCI research on dementia has moved away from the medical-model framing of 'recipients of care' toward dementia-friendly communities, interdependence, and person-centred support. But Czech and colleagues note a gap: most of this work designs interventions…

  dementia · aging · participatory design · community-based participatory design · interdependence

• Grassroots Maker Perspectives on Participation in Do-It-Yourself Assistive Technology Development

  Saquib Sarwar, David Wilson, Khairul Mahbub · 2026 · Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  Sarwar, Wilson, and Mahbub interviewed 20 grassroots DIY assistive-technology (DIY-AT) makers in the U.S. between July 2021 and December 2023 to build a maker-centered account of the DIY-AT ecosystem. Participants were recruited from social media (Reddit r/AssistiveTechnology,…

  DIY assistive technology · assistive technology · 3D printing · digital fabrication · makerspace

• When the World Opens Up: Journeys of People with Intellectual Disabilities in Social Virtual Reality

  Alexandra Covaci, Winnie Tsang, Sophia Ppali, Paraskevi Triantafyllopoulou, Monica Perusquia-Hernandez, Oscar Zhou, Fotis Liarokapis, Marios Constantinides, Mohamed Khamis, Shujun Li · 2026 · Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This CHI 2026 paper challenges the dominant remedial paradigm in HCI research on virtual reality and people with intellectual disabilities (ID), which has largely framed VR as a tool for training functional life skills (cooking, shopping, transport) in scripted, controlled…

  intellectual disability · virtual reality · social VR · VRChat · disability justice

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