UW CREATE has a large and quality presence at ASSETS 2020, the premier annual conference for accessible computing research. Drawing from three departments, University of Washington authors contributed to six papers and two posters to be presented at this year’s online conference. Three of our papers were nominated for best paper! Seven members also served in conference roles: two on the organizing committee and five on the program committee.

The papers and posters span a variety of topics including input performance evaluation of people with limited mobility, media usage patterns of autistic adults, sound awareness for d/Deaf and hard of hearing people, and autoethnography reports of multiple people with disabilities. Congratulations to the authors and their collaborators!

We look forward to seeing you virtually at ASSETS 2020, which runs October 26 to 28.

A handcarved cane with a spiral design and painted green at the top — An autoethnograher’s daughter’s handcrafted cane, as presented in the paper, “Living disability theory: Reflections on access, research, and design.”

SoundWatch uses smartwatch-based deep learning approaches to support sound awareness for deaf and hard of hearing users.” — The SoundWatch, as described in the paper: “SoundWatch: Exploring smartwatch-based deep learning approaches to support sound awareness for deaf and hard of hearing users.”

Accepted papers

UW CREATE authors listed.

Input accessibility: A large dataset and summary analysis of age, motor ability and input performance

Leah Findlater, Lotus Zhang

The reliability of fitts’s law as a movement model for people with and without limited fine motor function

Ather Sharif, Katharina Reinecke, Jacob O. Wobbrock

Lessons learned in designing AI for autistic adults: Designing the video calling for autism prototype

Annuska Zolyomi

SoundWatch: Exploring smartwatch-based deep learning approaches to support sound awareness for deaf and hard of hearing users

Dhruv Jain, Leah Findlater, Jon E. Froehlich

Living disability theory: Reflections on access, research, and design

Jennifer Mankoff, Cynthia Bennett (recent alumni, now at Apple/CMU)

Navigating graduate school with a disability

Dhruv Jain, Venkatesh Potluri, Ather Sharif

Accepted posters

HoloSound: Combining speech and sound identification for Deaf or hard of hearing users on a head-mounted display

Dhruv Jain, Steven Goodman, Leah Findlater, Jon E. Froehlich

#ActuallyAutistic Sense-making on Twitter

Annuska Zolyomi

Organizing Committee roles

Dhruv Jain as Posters & Demonstrations Co-Chair
Cynthia Bennett as Accessibility Co-Chair

Program committee roles

Cynthia Bennett (recent alumni, now at Apple/CMU), Leah Findlater, Jon E. Froehlich, Richard Ladner, Anne Ross