12 papers
MemeBuddy: Dialog-Style Audio Representations for Engaging Non-Visual Meme Experiences
Chirag Bhansali, Vikas Ashok, Hae-Na Lee
Image memes are a pervasive form of online communication, widely used to convey humor, opinions, and cultural references. Prior work has explored making memes accessible to blind u…
Field-Deployable RF Capture System for Indoor, Outdoor, and Foliage Environments
Lawrence Obiuwevwi, Krzysztof J. Rechowicz, Vikas Ashok +5
Reliable and reproducible radio-frequency (RF) measurements in real-world environments are essential for characterizing spectrum behavior across unlicensed ISM and WiFi bands, lice…
Touching and Feeling the Data: A Reusable Software Pipeline for Tactile Statistical Graphs in Accessible Education
Lawrence Obiuwevwi, Krzysztof J. Rechowicz, Jessica M. Johnson +4
Statistical visualization is usually treated as a visual medium, but data can also be touched. Three dimensional printed tactile graphs let blind and low vision students feel distr…
Quantifying the Affective Gap: A Zero-Shot Evaluation of LLMs on Fine-Grained Emotion Taxonomies
Lawrence Obiuwevwi, Krzysztof J. Rechowicz, Jessica M. Johnson +3
Emotion recognition in natural language is a foundational challenge in affective computing, with critical implications for human-computer interaction, mental health support, and co…
Cognitive Prosthetic: An AI-Enabled Multimodal System for Episodic Recall in Knowledge Work
Lawrence Obiuwevwi, Krzysztof J. Rechowicz, Vikas Ashok +2
Modern knowledge workplaces increasingly strain human episodic memory as individuals navigate fragmented attention, overlapping meetings, and multimodal information streams. Existi…
Lost in Instructions: Study of Blind Users' Experiences with DIY Manuals and AI-Rewritten Instructions for Assembly, Operation, and Troubleshooting of Tangible Products
Monalika Padma Reddy, Aruna Balasubramanian, Jiawei Zhou +3
AI tools like ChatGPT and Be-My-AI are increasingly being used by blind individuals. Although prior work has explored their use in some Do-It-Yourself (DIY) tasks by blind individu…