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• Disability Intimacy in HCI: Defining a Community-Driven Research Agenda

  Ekat Osipova, Jay Rodolitz, Kirk Andrew Crawford, Kay Kender, Ana O. Henriques, Chorong Park, Patricia Piedade, Rachel E Wood, Katta Spiel · 2025 · ASSETS 2025: 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This workshop paper proposes a half-day virtual workshop at ASSETS 2025 to define a community-driven research agenda for "Disability Intimacy in HCI" — a field the authors argue has been vastly underexplored in accessibility research. The organizers, a team of nine researchers…

  disability intimacy · crip theory · queer theory · sexuality · disability rights

• Modeling Accessibility: Characterizing What We Mean by "Accessible"

  Kelly Avery Mack, Jesse J Martinez, Aaleyah Lewis, Jennifer Mankoff, James Fogarty, Leah Findlater, Heather D. Evans, Cynthia L Bennett, Emma J McDonnell · 2025 · ASSETS 2025: 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper tackles a fundamental gap in accessibility research: the field lacks a clear, shared characterization of what "accessibility" actually means. While accessibility research aims to use technology to make the world more accessible to disabled people, the concept itself…

  accessibility theory · models of disability · intersectionality · assistive technology · disability justice

• "As Someone Who is Disabled, I am so thankful for Sex Work": Alternative Approaches to Access Among Disabled Sex-Workers

  Abigail Rodolitz, Vaughn Hamilton, Tamanna Tabassum, Jinny Lerner, Megan Hofmann · 2025 · ASSETS 2025: 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper investigates the access strategies developed by disabled sex workers, a population at the intersection of multiple marginalized identities. Through 12 semi-structured interviews with disabled individuals engaged in various forms of sex work (escorts, webcam…

  disability disclosure · intersectionality · marginalized communities · sex work · systems of access

• 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

• Minor Resistance: The Everyday Politics and Power Dynamics of Assistive Technology Adoption

  Stacy Hsueh, Danielle Van Dusen, Anat Caspi, Jennifer Mankoff · 2025 · ASSETS 2025: 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper proposes a power-aware framework for understanding assistive technology adoption that moves beyond the traditional "fit" model, where adoption signals good fit between device and user while abandonment signals poor fit. Drawing from an eight-month ethnographic study…

  assistive technology · power dynamics · social inequity · intersectionality · ethnography

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