September 25, 2024
CREATE faculty, students, and alumni had a large presence at ASSETS 2024, the international ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility.
If we missed any CREATE research, please email Liz Diether-Martin with the details.
Awards
ASSETS 2024 Best Paper Award:
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)
ASSETS 2024 Best Demo Award:
Touchpad Mapper: Examining Information Consumption from 2D Digital Content Using Touchpads by Screen
CREATE Ph.D. alumni Ather Sharif and Venkatesh Potluri, Jazz Ang (CREATE Master’s student), Jacob O. Wobbrock (CREATE associate director), Jennifer Mankoff (CREATE Director)
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
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. alumnus), 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)
Uncovering the New Accessibility Crisis in Scholarly PDFs: Publishing Model and Platform Changes Contribute to Declining Scholarly Document Accessibility in the Last Decade
Anukriti Kumar (CREATE Ph.D. graduate), Lucy Lu Wang
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