6 papers
Cripping AI: Reimagining AI Through Lived Disability Experiences
Xinru Tang, Ting-an Lin, Jingjin Li +1
Drawing on crip theory, this paper proposes cripping AI as a guiding framework to center lived disability experiences in AI research and development. Moving beyond calls to make AI…
Access in the Shadow of Ableism: An Autoethnography of a Blind Student's Higher Education Experience in China
Weijun Zhang, Xinru Tang
The HCI research community has witnessed a growing body of research on accessibility and disability driven by efforts to improve access. Yet, the concept of access reveals its limi…
Disability-First AI Dataset Annotation: Co-designing Stuttered Speech Annotation Guidelines with People Who Stutter
Xinru Tang, Jingjin Li, Shaomei Wu
Despite efforts to increase the representation of disabled people in AI datasets, accessibility datasets are often annotated by crowdworkers without disability-specific expertise,…
Reimagining Sign Language Technologies: Analyzing Translation Work of Chinese Deaf Online Content Creators
Xinru Tang, Anne Marie Piper
While sign language translation systems promise to enhance deaf people's access to information and communication, they have been met with strong skepticism from deaf communities du…
"It's trained by non-disabled people": Evaluating How Image Quality Affects Product Captioning with Vision-Language Models
Kapil Garg, Xinru Tang, Jimin Heo +4
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly used by blind and low-vision (BLV) people to identify and understand products in their everyday lives, such as food, personal care it…
The Homework Wars: Exploring Emotions, Behaviours, and Conflicts in Parent-Child Homework Interactions
Nan Gao, Yibin Liu, Xin Tang +8
Parental involvement in homework is a crucial aspect of family education, but it often triggers emotional strain and conflicts. Despite growing concern over its impact on family we…