August 27, 2025
CREATE faculty, students, and alumni will be well represented at ASSETS 2025 in Denver this fall.
In addition to the papers and experience reports listed below, these CREATE members are part of the ASSETS 2025 Program Committee: CREATE associate director Leah Findlater and several CREATE postdoctoral researchers: Emma McDonnell (also a CREATE Ph.D. graduate), Jazette Johnson, Stacy Hsueh, and postdoc alum Tamanna Motahar.
Papers authored by CREATE students, faculty, alumni
A11yShape: “AI-Assisted 3-D Modeling for Blind and Low-Vision Programmers”
Zhuohao (Jerry) Zhang (CREATE Ph.D. student), Haichang Li, Chun Meng Yu, Faraz Faruqi, Junan Xie, Gene S-H Kim, Mingming Fan, Angus G. Forbes, Jacob O. Wobbrock (CREATE associate director), Anhong Guo, Liang He.
“As Someone Who is Disabled, I am so thankful for Sex Work”: Alternative Approaches to Access Among Disabled Sex-Workers
Jay Rodolitz, Vaughn Hamilton, Madiha Tabassum, Ada Lerner, Megan Hofmann (CREATE Ph.D. graduate).
“Before, I Asked My Mom, Now I Ask ChatGPT”: Visual Privacy Management with Generative AI for Blind and Low-Vision People
Tanusree Sharma, Yu-Yun Tseng, Lotus Zhang (CREATE Ph.D. student), Ayae Ide, Kelly Avery Mack (former CREATE postdoc, Ph.D. graduate), Leah Findlater (CREATE associate director), Danna Gurari, Yang Wang.
Beyond Beautiful: Embroidering Legible and Expressive Tactile Graphics
Margaret Ellen Seehorn, Claris Winston (CREATE graduate student), Bo Liu, Gene S-H Kim, Emily White, Nupur Gorkar (HuskyADAPT Communications Chair), Kate S. Glazko (CREATE Ph.D. student), Aashaka Desai (CREATE Ph.D. student), Jerry Cao (CREATE Ph.D. student), Megan Hofmann (CREATE Ph.D. graduate), Jennifer Mankoff (CREATE Director).
CapTune: Adapting Non-Speech Captions With Anchored Generative Models
Jeremy Zhengqi Huang, Caluã de Lacerda Pataca, Liang-Yuan Wu, Dhruv Jain (CREATE Ph.D. graduate).
CARTGPT: Real-Time Correction of CART Captions Using Large Language Models
Liang-Yuan Wu, Andrea Kleiver, Dhruv Jain (CREATE Ph.D. graduate).
Exploring Disability Culture Through Accounts of Disabled Innovators of Accessibility Technology
Aashaka Desai (CREATE Ph.D. student), Jennifer Mankoff (CREATE Director), Richard E. Ladner (CREATE Director for Education Emeritus)
From Screen Reading to Scene Reading in SceneVR
Melanie Jo Kneitmix (CREATE Ph.D. student), Jacob O. Wobbrock (CREATE associate director)
Minor Resistance: The Everyday Politics and Power Dynamics of Assistive Technology Adoption
Stacy Hsueh (CREATE postdoc), Danielle Van Dusen (CREATE Community Partner), Anat Caspi (CREATE associate director), Jennifer Mankoff (CREATE Director).
Modeling Accessibility: Characterizing What We Mean by “Accessible”
Kelly Avery Mack (former CREATE postdoc, Ph.D. graduate), Jesse J. Martinez (CREATE Ph.D. student), Aaleyah Lewis (CREATE Ph.D. student), Jennifer Mankoff (CREATE Director), James Fogarty (CREATE associate director), Leah Findlater (CREATE associate director), Heather D. Evans, Cynthia L Bennett, Emma J. McDonnell (CREATE postdoc and Ph.D. graduate).
Rethinking Productivity with GenAI: A Neurodivergent Students’ Perspective
Hira Jamshed, Mustafa Naseem, Venkatesh Potluri (CREATE Ph.D. graduate), Robin N. Brewer
SoundNarratives: Rich Auditory Scene Descriptions to Support Deaf and Hard of Hearing People
Liang-Yuan Wu, Dhruv Jain (CREATE Ph.D. graduate)
Temp access: Reflecting on multimodal GAI as an accessibility technology for temporary disability
An experience report from CREATE Ph.D. student Kate S. Glazko (CREATE Ph.D. student)
VizXpress: Towards Expressive Visual Content by Blind Creators Through AI Support
Lotus Zhang (CREATE Ph.D. student), Zhuohao (Jerry) Zhang (CREATE Ph.D. student), Gina Clepper (CREATE Ph.D. student), Franklin Mingzhe Li, Patrick Carrington, Jacob O. Wobbrock (CREATE associate director), Leah Findlater (CREATE associate director).
Where Can I Park? Understanding Human Perspectives and Scalably Detecting Disability Parking from Aerial Imagery
Jared Hwang (CREATE Ph.D. student), Chu Li (CREATE Ph.D. student), Hanbyul Kang, Maryam Hosseini, Jon E. Froehlich (CREATE associate director).
Posters by CREATE students, faculty, alumni
The Accessibility, Security, and Privacy Nexus: Trends and Opportunities
Kelly Avery Mack (CREATE Ph.D. graduate), Yu-Jie Chen, Lotus Zhang (CREATE Ph.D. student), Danna Gurari, Tanusree Sharma, Yang Wang, Leah Findlater, CREATE associate director)
Accessibility Heuristics for Vibe Coding Interfaces
Shalini Madan, Sreelakshmi Surabiyil Bindu, Venkatesh Potluri (CREATE Ph.D. graduate)
DIY in Action: Understanding Do-It-Yourself Practices from Tangible Symbol Cards
Alexander S.W. Parent, L. Beth Brady, Sarah Ivy, Jennifer Hercman, Amy Hurst (CREATE Advisory Board member)
Re-framing Accessibility from Constraint to Creative Catalyst
Sarah Andrew, Anisa Callis, Anne Spencer Ross (CREATE Ph.D. graduate), Garreth W. Tigwell
Towards a Group Recommender System for Team Formation Foregrounding Students with Social Anxiety
Annuska Zolyomi (CREATE faculty member), Danny Nguyen
Demos by CREATE students, faculty, alumni
Demo of CapTune: Adapting Non-Speech Captions with Anchored Generative Models
Jeremy Zhengqi Huang, Caluã de Lacerda Pataca, Liang-Yuan Wu, Dhruv Jain (CREATE Ph.D. graduate)
EvolveCaptions: Real-Time Collaborative ASR Adaptation for DHH Speakers
Liang-Yuan Wu, Dhruv Jain (CREATE Ph.D. graduate)
GeoQA3 : Towards An Accessible AI-based Question-Answering System for Geoanalytics
Chu Li (CREATE Ph.D. student), Rock Yuren Pang (CREATE Ph.D. student), Arnavi Chheda-Kothary (CREATE Ph.D. student), Ather Sharif (CREATE Ph.D. graduate), Henok Assalif, Jeffrey Heer, Jon E. Froehlich (CREATE associate director)
Making Street View Accessible Using Context-Aware, Multimodal AI: A Demo of StreetViewAI
Jon E. FroehlichAlexander J. FiannacaNimer M JaberVictor TsaranShaun K. Ka
RAVEN: Realtime Accessibility in Virtual ENvironments for Blind and Low-Vision People
Xinyun Cao, Kexin Phyllis Ju, Chenglin Li, Venkatesh Potluri (CREATE Ph.D. graduate), Dhruv Jain (CREATE Ph.D. graduate)