September 25, 2024
CREATE faculty, students and alumni will have a large presence at the 2024 ASSETS Conference. It’ll be quiet on campus the week of October 28 with these folks in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
If we missed any CREATE research, please email Liz Diether-Martin with the details.
Papers and presentations
Accessibility through Awareness of Noise Sensitivity Management and Regulation Practices
Emani Dotch, Avery Mavrovounioti, Weijie Du, Elizabeth Ankrah, Jazette Johnson (CREATE postdoctoral scholar 2024-25), Aehong Min, Gillian R Hayes
Characterizing ‘Motor Ability’ for Ability-Based Design
Claire L. Mitchell, Jacob O. Wobbrock (CREATE associate director)
ChartA11y: Designing Accessible Touch Experiences of Visualizations with Blind Smartphone Users
Zhuohao Zhang, John R. Thompson, Aditi Shah, Manish Agrawal, Alper Sarikaya, Jacob O. Wobbrock (CREATE associate director), Edward Cutrell, Bongshin Lee
EditScribe: Non-Visual Image Editing with Natural Language Verification Loops
Ruei-Che Chang, Yuxuan Liu, Lotus Zhang (CREATE student), Anhong Guo
Engaging with Children’s Artwork in Mixed Visual-Ability Families
Arnavi Chheda-Kothary, Jacob O. Wobbrock (CREATE associate director), Jon E. Froehlich (CREATE associate director)
Envisioning Collective Communication Access: A Theoretically-Grounded Review of Captioning Literature from 2013-2023
Emma J McDonnell (CREATE Ph.D. 2024), Leah Findlater (CREATE associate director)
Exploring how People with Spinal Cord Injuries Seek Support on Social Media
Tamanna Motahar (CREATE postdoctoral scholar 2024-25), Sara Nurollahian, YeonJae Kim, Marina Kogan, Jason Wiese (CREATE visiting scholar 2024)
Exploring Sound Masking Approaches to Support People with Autism in Managing Noise Sensitivity
Anna Y Park, Andy Jin, Jeremy Zhengqi Huang, Jesse Carr, Dhruv Jain (CREATE Ph.D. 2022)
Help and The Social Construction of Access: A Case-Study from India
Vaishnav Kameswaran, Jerry Robinson, Nithya Sambasivan, Gaurav Aggarwal, Meredith Ringel Morris (CREATE faculty)
“I look at it as the king of knowledge”: How Blind People Use and Understand Generative AI Tools
Rudaiba Adnin, Maitraye Das (CREATE postdoctoral scholar, 2022-2023)
“I Try to Represent Myself as I Am”: Self-Presentation Preferences of People with Invisible Disabilities through Embodied Social VR Avatars
Ria J. Gualano, Lucy Jiang (CREATE undergraduate student, 2022), Kexin Zhang, Tanisha Shende, Andrea Stevenson Won, Shiri Azenkot
“It’s like Goldilocks:” Bespoke Slides for Fluctuating Audience Access Needs
Kelly Avery Mack (CREATE Ph.D. 2024), Kate S. Glazko (CREATE Ph.D. student), Jamil Islam, Megan Hofmann (CREATE Ph.D. student), Jennifer Mankoff (CREATE Director)
SoundModVR: Sound Modifications in Virtual Reality to Support People who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Xinyun Cao, Dhruv Jain (CREATE Ph.D. 2022)
Towards Construction-Oriented Play for Vision-Diverse People
Adrian Rodriguez, Nisha Devasia, Michelle Pei, Julie A. Kientz (CREATE faculty)
Understanding and Reducing the Challenges Faced by Creators of Accessible Online Data Visualizations
Ather Sharif (CREATE Ph.D. graduate), Joo Gyeong Kim, Jessie Zijia Xu, Jacob O. Wobbrock (CREATE associate director)
2024 Workshops
The Future of Urban Accessibility: The Role of AI
Organizers: Jon E. Froehlich, Chu Li, Maryam Hosseini, Fabio Miranda, Andres Sevtsuk, Yochai Eisenberg
Challenges and Considerations for Accessibility Research Across Cultures and Regions
Organizers: Laleh Nourian, Yulia Goldenberg, Muhammad Adamu, Vikram Kamath Cannanure, Catherine Holloway, Neha Kumar, Katharina Reinecke, Garreth W. Tigwell