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Cyber-Physical Systems for Accessibility and Ability Augmentation: Bridging Diverse Communities
Shuchang Xu, Riku Arakawa, Mina Huh +11
The powerful convergence of wearables, robotics, extended reality, and smart environments is expanding the design space for cyber-physical systems (CPS) that support and augment hu…
Understanding Nature Engagement Experiences of Blind People
Mengjie Tang, Xinman Li, Juxiao Zhang +2
Nature plays a crucial role in human health and well-being, but little is known about how blind people experience and relate to it. We conducted a survey of nature relatedness with…
AROMA: Mixed-Initiative AI Assistance for Non-Visual Cooking by Grounding Multi-modal Information Between Reality and Videos
Zheng Ning, Leyang Li, Daniel Killough +6
Videos offer rich audiovisual information that can support people in performing activities of daily living (ADLs), but they remain largely inaccessible to blind or low-vision (BLV)…
More than One Step at a Time: Designing Procedural Feedback for Non-visual Makeup Routines
Franklin Mingzhe Li, Akihiko Oharazawa, Chloe Qingyu Zhu +4
Makeup plays a vital role in self-expression, identity, and confidence - yet remains an underexplored domain for assistive technology, especially for people with vision impairments…
Exploring Object Status Recognition for Recipe Progress Tracking in Non-Visual Cooking
Franklin Mingzhe Li, Kaitlyn Ng, Bin Zhu +1
Cooking plays a vital role in everyday independence and well-being, yet remains challenging for people with vision impairments due to limited support for tracking progress and rece…
OSCAR: Object Status and Contextual Awareness for Recipes to Support Non-Visual Cooking
Franklin Mingzhe Li, Kaitlyn Ng, Bin Zhu +1
Following recipes while cooking is an important but difficult task for visually impaired individuals. We developed OSCAR (Object Status Context Awareness for Recipes), a novel appr…
A Recipe for Success? Exploring Strategies for Improving Non-Visual Access to Cooking Instructions
Franklin Mingzhe Li, Ashley Wang, Patrick Carrington +1
Cooking is an essential activity that enhances quality of life by enabling individuals to prepare their own meals. However, cooking often requires multitasking between cooking task…
Co-design Accessible Public Robots: Insights from People with Mobility Disability, Robotic Practitioners and Their Collaborations
Howard Ziyu Han, Franklin Mingzhe Li, Alesandra Baca Vazquez +3
Sidewalk robots are increasingly common across the globe. Yet, their operation on public paths poses challenges for people with mobility disabilities (PwMD) who face barriers to ac…
Designing Upper-Body Gesture Interaction with and for People with Spinal Muscular Atrophy in VR
Jingze Tian, Yingna Wang, Keye Yu +5
Recent research proposed gaze-assisted gestures to enhance interaction within virtual reality (VR), providing opportunities for people with motor impairments to experience VR. Comp…
A Contextual Inquiry of People with Vision Impairments in Cooking
Franklin Mingzhe Li, Michael Xieyang Liu, Shaun K. Kane +1
Individuals with vision impairments employ a variety of strategies for object identification, such as pans or soy sauce, in the culinary process. In addition, they often rely on co…
Selenite: Scaffolding Online Sensemaking with Comprehensive Overviews Elicited from Large Language Models
Michael Xieyang Liu, Tongshuang Wu, Tianying Chen +3
Sensemaking in unfamiliar domains can be challenging, demanding considerable user effort to compare different options with respect to various criteria. Prior research and our forma…
Understanding Visual Arts Experiences of Blind People
Franklin Mingzhe Li, Lotus Zhang, Maryam Bandukda +4
Visual arts play an important role in cultural life and provide access to social heritage and self-enrichment, but most visual arts are inaccessible to blind people. Researchers ha…
Freedom to Choose: Understanding Input Modality Preferences of People with Upper-body Motor Impairments for Activities of Daily Living
Franklin Mingzhe Li, Michael Xieyang Liu, Yang Zhang +1
Many people with upper-body motor impairments encounter challenges while performing Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs), such as t…
"It Feels Like Taking a Gamble": Exploring Perceptions, Practices, and Challenges of Using Makeup and Cosmetics for People with Visual Impairments
Franklin Mingzhe Li, Franchesca Spektor, Meng Xia +5
Makeup and cosmetics offer the potential for self-expression and the reshaping of social roles for visually impaired people. However, there exist barriers to conducting a beauty re…
Understanding How Older Adults Comprehend COVID-19 Interactive Visualizations via Think-Aloud Protocol
Mingming Fan, Yiwen Wang, Yuni Xie +2
Older adults have been hit disproportionally hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. One critical way for older adults to minimize the negative impact of COVID-19 and future pandemics is to…
An Exploration of Captioning Practices and Challenges of Individual Content Creators on YouTube for People with Hearing Impairments
Franklin Mingzhe Li, Cheng Lu, Zhicong Lu +2
Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) audiences have long complained about caption qualities for many online videos created by individual content creators on video-sharing platforms (e.g.…
Non-Visual Cooking: Exploring Practices and Challenges of Meal Preparation by People with Visual Impairments
Franklin Mingzhe Li, Jamie Dorst, Peter Cederberg +1
The reliance on vision for tasks related to cooking and eating healthy can present barriers to cooking for oneself and achieving proper nutrition. There has been little research ex…
ThumbTrak: Recognizing Micro-finger Poses Using a Ring with Proximity Sensing
Wei Sun, Franklin Mingzhe Li, Congshu Huang +5
ThumbTrak is a novel wearable input device that recognizes 12 micro-finger poses in real-time. Poses are characterized by the thumb touching each of the 12 phalanges on the hand. I…
TeethTap: Recognizing Discrete Teeth Gestures Using Motion and Acoustic Sensing on an Earpiece
Wei Sun, Franklin Mingzhe Li, Benjamin Steeper +3
Teeth gestures become an alternative input modality for different situations and accessibility purposes. In this paper, we present TeethTap, a novel eyes-free and hands-free input…
"I Choose Assistive Devices That Save My Face" A Study on Perceptions of Accessibility and Assistive Technology Use Conducted in China
Franklin Mingzhe Li, Di Laura Chen, Mingming Fan +1
Despite the potential benefits of assistive technologies (ATs) for people with various disabilities, only around 7% of Chinese with disabilities have had an opportunity to use ATs.…