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• Participant Recruitment in Accessibility Research

  Lloyd May, Saad Hassan, Khang Dang, Sooyeon Lee, Oliver Alonzo · 2025 · ASSETS 2025: 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This workshop paper addresses the critical but underexplored challenge of recruiting participants with disabilities for accessibility research. Grounded in the principle "Nothing about us without us," the paper argues that including people with disabilities as research…

  research methods · participant recruitment · disability studies · ethics · intersectionality

• Volunteer-Based Online Studies With Older Adults and People with Disabilities

  Qisheng Li, Krzysztof Z. Gajos, Katharina Reinecke · 2018 · Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '18)

  This paper validates volunteer-based online experiments as a methodology for conducting large-scale accessibility research with people with disabilities and older adults — populations that are notoriously difficult to recruit for laboratory studies. The researchers replicated…

  research methodology · online experimentation · accessibility research · aging · participant recruitment

• 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 accessibility and digital inclusion…

  research methods · participant recruitment · older adults · user pool · accessibility research

• A Large User Pool for Accessibility Research with Representative Users

  Marianne Dee, Vicki L. Hanson · 2014 · Proceedings of the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This paper reports on the creation and management of the SiDE (Social Inclusion in the Digital Economy) User Pool at the University of Dundee, Scotland — a pool of over 800 older adults and people with disabilities established between 2009 and 2014 to provide accessibility…

  research methodology · user research · participant recruitment · aging · accessibility research

• Representing Users in Accessibility Research

  Andrew Sears, Vicki L. Hanson · 2012 · ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This position paper challenges common practices in accessibility research where studies intended to benefit people with disabilities are conducted without including representative users from those populations. The authors—prominent accessibility researchers—argue that while the…

  research methodology · user studies · inclusive research · participant recruitment · disability research

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