Oru Koottu: A Survey on Floating UI-Based Digital Assistants for Elderly and Low-Literacy Users

Digital services have become integral to everyday life; however, elderly and low-literacy users continue to face sig-nificant barriers in accessing and understanding modern mobile interfaces. Prior research has independently explored Optical Character Recognition (OCR), machine translation for low-resource languages, speech-based interaction, and accessibility-oriented user interface design. Despite notable advancements, existing solutions largely remain application-specific, document-centric, o