Notes from Literature about Universal Design, Accessibility & Robots

This document collects results from a search that was done to find out what research have been done regarding universal design and accessibility of robots. The search turned up 13 articles in this topic. Articles about universal design focused more on how an environment could be made to be universally designed for a robot. There were also several articles about how robots can be an assistive technology for people with vision impairment or hearing impairment. There were a couple of articles that raised the topic of accessibility requirements for a robot. This was further developed in a PhD thesis from earlier this year that provides a promising starting point for future work.