March 24, 2025
Papers, presentations, and workshops from CREATE researchers at CHI 2025, the ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. We appreciate your patience as we continue to update this page.
The conference takes place April 26 – May 1 in Yokohama Japan.
Awards and honors
Congratulations to these 2025 ACM SIGCHI honorees:
- James Fogarty, a CREATE associate director, elected to the ACM SIGCHI Academy Class of 2025.
- Cecilia Aragon, a new CREATE faculty member, received a SIGCHI Special Recognition for “establishing human-centered data science as a new field bridging HCI and data science, demonstrating its impact through applications from astrophysics to energy systems.”
- UW colleagues Kate Starbird (elected to the SIGCHI Academy); Nadya Peek (Special Recognition); Alexis Hiniker (Societal Impact Award).
Papers
A Stakeholder Value Framework for Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Annuska Zolyomi (CREATE faculty), Varsha Koushik, Dinara Asyet, Linh H. Huynh.
“A Tool for Freedom”: Co-Designing Mobility Aid Improvements Using Personal Fabrication and Physical Interface Modules With Primarily Young Adults
Jerry Cao (CREATE Ph.D. student), Krish Jain, Julie Zhang, Yuecheng Peng, Shwetak N Patel, Jennifer Mankoff (CREATE Director).
Accessibility for Whom? Perceptions of Mobility Barriers Across Disability Groups and Implications for Designing Personalized Maps
Chu Li (CREATE Ph.D. student), Rock Yuren Pang (CREATE Ph.D. student), Delphine Labbé, Yochai Eisenberg, Maryam Hosseini, Jon E. Froehlich (CREATE associate director).
Autoethnographic Insights from Neurodivergent GAI “Power Users”
Kate S. Glazko (CREATE Ph.D. student), JunHyeok Cha, Aaleyah Lewis (CREATE Ph.D. student), Ben Kosa, Brianna L. Wimer, Andrew Zheng, Roy Zheng, Jennifer Mankoff (CREATE Director).
Cultivating Computational Thinking and Social Play Among Neurodiverse Preschoolers in Inclusive Classrooms
Maitraye Das (former CREATE postdoc), Megan Tran, Amanda Chih-han Ong, Julie A Kientz (CREATE faculty), Heather Feldner (CREATE associate director).
Deploying and Examining Beacon for At-Home Patient Self-Monitoring With Critical Flicker Frequency
Richard Li (CREATE Ph.D. student), Philip Vutien; Sabrina Omer, Michael Yacoub, George Ioannou, Ravi Karkar, Sean A Munson, James Fogarty (CREATE associate director).
Exploring AI-Based Support in Speech-Language Pathology for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Children
Aaleyah Lewis (CREATE Ph.D. student), Aayushi Dangol; Hyewon Suh; Abbie Olszewski; James Fogarty (CREATE associate director); Julie A. Kientz (CREATE faculty).
Exploring Reduced Feature Sets for American Sign Language Dictionaries
Ben Kosa, Aashaka Desai (CREATE Ph.D. student), Alex X Lu, Richard E Ladner (CREATE Director for Education Emeritus), Danielle Bragg.
“I want to think like an SLP”: A Design Exploration of AI-Supported Home Practice in Speech Therapy
Aayushi Dangol, Aaleyah Lewis (CREATE Ph.D. student), Hyewon Suh, Xuesi Hong, Hedda Meadan, James Fogarty (CREATE associate director), Julie A. Kientz (CREATE faculty).
Inaccessible and Deceptive: Examining Experiences of Deceptive Design with People Who Use Visual Accessibility Technology
Aaleyah Lewis (CREATE Ph.D. student), Jesse J. Martinez (CREATE Ph.D. student), Maitraye Das (CREATE Ph.D. graduate), James Fogarty (CREATE associate director).
“It Brought Me Joy”: Opportunities for Spatial Browsing in Desktop Screen Readers
Arnavi Chheda-Kothary (CREATE Ph.D. student), Ather Sharif (CREATE Ph.D. graduate), David Angel Rios, Brian A. Smith.
NightLight: Passively Mapping Nighttime Sidewalk Light Data for Improved Pedestrian Routing
Joseph Breda, Daniel Campos Zamora (CREATE Ph.D. student), Shwetak N Patel, Jon E. Froehlich (CREATE associate director).
ScreenAudit: Detecting Screen Reader Accessibility Errors in Mobile Apps Using Large Language Models
Mingyuan Zhong (CREATE Ph.D. student), Ruolin Chen, Xia Chen, James Fogarty (CREATE associate director), Jacob O. Wobbrock, (CREATE associate director).
Shifting the Focus: Exploring Video Accessibility Strategies and Challenges for People With ADHD
Lucy Jiang (CREATE Ph.D. student), Woojin Ko, Shirley Yuan, Tanisha Shende, Shiri Azenkot
SPECTRA: Personalizable Sound Recognition for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users through Interactive Machine Learning
Steven M. Goodman (CREATE Ph.D. graduate), Emma McDonnell (CREATE Ph.D. graduate), Jon E. Froehlich (CREATE associate director), Leah Findlater (CREATE associate director).
Supporting Mobile Reading While Walking With Automatic and Customized Font Size Adaptations
Junhan Kong (CREATE Ph.D. student), Jacob O. Wobbrock, (CREATE associate director), Tianyuan Cai, Zoya Bylinskii.
Toward Language Justice: Exploring Multilingual Captioning for Accessibility
Aashaka Desai (CREATE Ph.D. student), Rahaf Alharbi; Stacy Hsueh, (CREATE postdoctoral researcher), Richard E. Ladner (CREATE Director for Education Emeritus), Jennifer Mankoff (CREATE Director).
Understanding the LLM-ification of CHI: Unpacking the Impact of LLMs at CHI Through a Systematic Literature Review
Rock Yuren Pang (CREATE Ph.D. student), Hope Schroeder, Kynnedy Simone Smith, Solon Barocas, Ziang Xiao, Emily Tseng, Danielle Bragg.
Understanding the Training Experiences of Competitive Skiers with Tetraplegia
Tamanna Motahar (CREATE postdoctoral researcher), YeonJae Kim, Eden Fisher, Jason Wiese (past CREATE visiting faculty).
“We do use it, but not how hearing people think”: How the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community Uses Large Language Model
Shuxu Huffman, Kelly Avery Mack (CREATE Ph.D. graduate), Haotian Su, Qi Wang, Raja Kushalnagar.
“What Would I Want to Make? Probably Everything”: Practices and Speculations of Blind and Low Vision Tactile Graphics Creators
Gina Clepper (CREATE Ph.D. student), Emma McDonnell (CREATE Ph.D. graduate), Jon E. Froehlich (CREATE associate director), Leah Findlater (CREATE associate director).
Wordplay: Accessible, Multilingual Interactive Typography. ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Amy J. Ko (CREATE faculty), Carlos Aldana Lira, Isabel Amaya.
Presentations
To be announced
Workshops
To be announced
Student Games Competition
Accepted entries in the Student Games Competition (SGC) are the top 10 finalists from two tracks: Transformative and Transgressive Play and Innovative Interfaces. Entries will be further judged at the conference, and a winner chosen for each track.
OURCADE: A Game to Solve Real-World Game Accessibility Puzzles
Jesse Martinez | Transformative and Transgressive Play track