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Are We There Yet? Assessing Computer-Use Agents for Blind Users' Accessible Interaction with Desktop Applications
Satwik Ram Kodandaram, Monalika Padma Reddy, Xiaojun Bi +3
Computer-use agents are emerging as a paradigm for agentic human-AI interaction, combining language reasoning with multi-modal interface grounding to operate GUIs. Yet their effect…
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…
Finding the Signal in the Noise: An Exploratory Study on Assessing the Effectiveness of AI and Accessibility Forums for Blind Users' Support Needs
Satwik Ram Kodandaram, Jiawei Zhou, Xiaojun Bi +2
Accessibility forums and, more recently, generative AI tools have become vital resources for blind users seeking solutions to computer-interaction issues and learning about new ass…
Towards Affordable, Non-Invasive Real-Time Hypoglycemia Detection Using Wearable Sensor Signals
Lawrence Obiuwevwi, Krzysztof J. Rechowicz, Vikas Ashok +1
Accurately detecting hypoglycemia without invasive glucose sensors remains a critical challenge in diabetes management, particularly in regions where continuous glucose monitoring…
Toward Affordable and Non-Invasive Detection of Hypoglycemia: A Machine Learning Approach
Lawrence Obiuwevwi, Krzysztof J. Rechowicz, Vikas Ashok +1
Diabetes mellitus is a growing global health issue, with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) requiring constant monitoring to avoid hypoglycemia. Although Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGMs) are…
Beyond Gaze Overlap: Analyzing Joint Visual Attention Dynamics Using Egocentric Data
Kumushini Thennakoon, Yasasi Abeysinghe, Bhanuka Mahanama +2
Joint visual attention (JVA) provides informative cues on human behavior during social interactions. The ubiquity of egocentric eye-trackers and large-scale datasets on everyday in…
Insights in Adaptation: Examining Self-reflection Strategies of Job Seekers with Visual Impairments in India
Akshay Nayak Kolgar, Yash Prakash, Sampath Jayarathna +2
Significant changes in the digital employment landscape, driven by rapid technological advancements and the COVID-19 pandemic, have introduced new opportunities for blind and visua…
Adapting Online Customer Reviews for Blind Users: A Case Study of Restaurant Reviews
Mohan Sunkara, Akshay Kolgar Nayak, Sandeep Kalari +4
Online reviews have become an integral aspect of consumer decision-making on e-commerce websites, especially in the restaurant industry. Unlike sighted users who can visually skim…
Advanced Gaze Analytics Dashboard
Gavindya Jayawardena, Vikas Ashok, Sampath Jayarathna
Eye movements can provide informative cues to understand human visual scan/search behavior and cognitive load during varying tasks. Visualizations of real-time gaze measures during…
Enabling Uniform Computer Interaction Experience for Blind Users through Large Language Models
Satwik Ram Kodandaram, Utku Uckun, Xiaojun Bi +2
Blind individuals, who by necessity depend on screen readers to interact with computers, face considerable challenges in navigating the diverse and complex graphical user interface…
A-DisETrac Advanced Analytic Dashboard for Distributed Eye Tracking
Yasasi Abeysinghe, Bhanuka Mahanama, Gavindya Jayawardena +5
Understanding how individuals focus and perform visual searches during collaborative tasks can help improve user engagement. Eye tracking measures provide informative cues for such…
StreamingHub: Interactive Stream Analysis Workflows
Yasith Jayawardana, Vikas G. Ashok, Sampath Jayarathna
Reusable data/code and reproducible analyses are foundational to quality research. This aspect, however, is often overlooked when designing interactive stream analysis workflows fo…
Multidisciplinary Reading Patterns of Digital Documents
Bhanuka Mahanama, Gavindya Jayawardena, Yasasi Abeysinghe +2
Reading plays a vital role in updating the researchers on recent developments in the field, including but not limited to solutions to various problems and collaborative studies bet…