My first commentary is published in Frontiers in Digital Health

Very excited to share that my first commentary, co-authored with JR Rizzo and Giles Hamilton-Fletcher, has just been published in Frontiers in Digital Health.

The piece, titled “From abandonment to adoption: Advancing assistive technologies for blindness and low vision in the AI era,” examines the factors that influence whether assistive technologies are not only adopted, but meaningfully integrated and sustained in the lives of people with blindness and low vision.

This topic feels especially timely. As AI-driven tools rapidly expand and diversify, the assistive technology landscape has become increasingly crowded. While this growth brings enormous potential, it also creates new challenges: users are often faced with an overwhelming array of tools, many of which fail to align with real-world needs, contexts, and lived experiences. Too often, promising technologies are abandoned—not because the idea is flawed, but because design, deployment, or support falls short.

In the commentary, we reflect on how research and industry can move beyond novelty-driven innovation toward approaches that prioritize usability, trust, long-term support, and genuine collaboration with users. By reframing success around sustained adoption rather than technological capability alone, we argue for a more human-centered path forward in the AI era.

I am deeply grateful for this collaboration and for the opportunity to contribute to ongoing conversations about accessibility, assistive technology, and responsible AI. I look forward to continue building on this work and exploring how emerging technologies can better support inclusion and independence.

You can read the full commentary in Frontiers in Digital Health.