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 and faculty
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.
“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, 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).
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, 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).
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, Chu Li, Hanbyul Kang, Maryam Hosseini, Jon E. Froehlich (CREATE associate director).
CREATE alumni papers and presentations
“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).
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).
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).