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Program Committee

October 23-26, 2022

Program Committee Members

Tousif Ahmed, Samsung Research, USA

Dragan Ahmetovic, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

Taslima Akter, Indiana University, USA

Oliver Alonzo, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

Catherine Baker, Creighton University, USA

Giulia Barbareschi, Keio University, Japan

Andrew Begel, Microsoft Research, USA

Jeffrey Bigham, Carnegie Mellon University, USA & Apple Research, USA

Syed Masum Billah, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Edward Cutrell, Microsoft Research, USA

Karina Caro, Autonomous University of Baja California, Mexico

Michael Crabb, University of Dundee, UK

Patrick Carrington, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Maitraye Das, Northwestern University, USA

Kirsten Ellis, Monash University, Australia

Yasmine Elglaly, Western Washington University, USA

Lizbeth Escobedo, University of California, San Diego, USA

Leah Findlater, University of Washington, USA & Apple Research, USA

David Flatla, University of Guelph, Canada

Kathrin Gerling, KU Leuven, Belgium

Benjamin Gorman, Bournemouth University, UK

João Guerreiro, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Tiago Guerreiro, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Anhong Guo, University of Michigan, USA

Foad Hamidi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA

Kotaro Hara, Singapore Management University, Singapore

Saad Hassan, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

Liang He, Purdue University, USA

Megan Hofmann, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Anthony Hornof, University of Oregon, USA

Matt Huenerfauth, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

Amy Hurst, New York University, USA

Dhruv Jain, University of Washington, USA

Hernisa Kacorri, University of Maryland, USA

Shaun Kane, Google, USA

Masatomo Kobayashi, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan

Ravi Kuber, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA

Sri Kurniawan, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

Raja Kushalnagar, Gallaudet University, USA

Sooyeon Lee, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

Clayton Lewis, University of Colorado, USA

Kyle Montague, Northumbria University, UK

Sergio Mascetti, University of Milan, Italy

Kathleen McCoy, University of Delaware, USA

Rachel Menzies, University of Dundee, UK

Oussama Metatla, University of Bristol, UK

Lauren Milne, Macalester College, USA

Silvia Mirri, University of Bologna, Italy

Karyn Moffatt, McGill University, Canada

Merrie Morris, Google, USA

Cecily Morrison, Microsoft Research, UK

Martez Mott, Microsoft Research, USA

Aboubakar Mountapmbeme, University of North Texas, USA

Tim Neate, King’s College London, UK

Hugo Nicolau, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Obianuju Okafor, University of North Texas, USA

Roshan Peiris, Rochester Institute of Technology

Cynthia Putnam, DePaul University, USA

Kathryn Ringland, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

André Rodrigues, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Abi Roper, City University of London, UK

Abigale Stangl, University of Washington, USA

Sayan Sarcar, Birmingham City University, UK

Daisuke Sato, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan

Lei Shi, Google, USA

Manohar Swaminathan, Microsoft Research, India

Hironobu Takagi, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan

Benjamin Tannert, Bremen City University of Applied Science, Germany

Arthur Theil, Offenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Gerhard Weber, Dresden University of Technology, Germany

Maria Wolters, University of Edinburgh, UK

Shaomei Wu, Facebook, USA

Yuhang Zhao, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

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ASSETS 2021 Program

Please Note: This schedule is still subject to change.

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Program Schedule for Monday October 18, 2021

TIME [EDT]
-3h Seattle [PDT]
+5h London [BST]
+6h Central Europe [CET]

EVENT

9:00

Opening Session: Welcome and Introductions

General Chair:

  • Jonathan Lazar, University of Maryland, USA

Program Chairs:

  • Heidi Feng, Towson University, USA
  • Faustina Hwang, University of Reading, UK

9:20

Opening Keynote Presentation

The DARE Index: Monitoring the Progress of Digital

Accessibility around the World

Axel Leblois

10:10

Keynote Q&A

10:25

Break (10 mins)

10:35 (40 mins)

Paper Session 1: Inclusive education

Session Chairs:

  • Catherine Baker, Creighton University, USA
  • Yasmine Elglaly, Western Washington University, USA
  • Enabling meaningful use of AI-infused educational technologies for children with blindness: learnings from the development and piloting of the PeopleLens curriculum*
    Cecily Morrison: Microsoft Research;
    Edward Cutrell: Microsoft Research;
    Martin Grayson: Microsoft Research;
    Elisabeth RB Becker: Microsoft Research;
    Vasiliki Kladouchou: Microsoft Research;
    Linda Pring: Microsoft Research;
    Katherine Jones: University of Bristol;
    Rita Faia Marques: Microsoft Research;
    Camilla Longden: Microsoft Research;
    Abigail Sellen: Microsoft Research
    award  Best Paper Nominee
  • Understanding Disability Services Toward Improving Graduate Student Support
    Murtaza Tamjeed: Rochester Institute of Technology;
    Vinita Tibdewal: Rochester Institute of Technology;
    Madison Russell: Rochester Institute of Technology;
    Michael McQuaid: Rochester Institute of Technology;
    Tae Oh: Rochester Institute of Technology;
    Kristen Shinohara: Rochester Institute of Technology
  • How Teachers of the Visually Impaired Compensate with the Absence of Accessible Block-Based Languages
    Aboubakar Mountapmbeme: University of North Texas;
    Stephanie Ludi: University of North Texas
  • Panel Q&A

11:15

Break (10 mins)

11:25

50th Anniversary Panel 1:
The Impact of the Trace Center: Celebrating 50 Years

Moderator:

  • Clayton Lewis

Panelists:

  • Judy Brewer
  • Alan Brightman
  • David Capozzi
  • Gregg Vanderheiden

12:30

Gold Sponsors

Microsoft

Apple

12:45

Break (45 mins)

13:30

Poster Previews Session 1

Short video previews of each of today's posters, demos, student research competition submissions, and doctoral consortium artifacts will be played.

Session Chairs:

  • Jon Froehlich, University of Washington, USA
  • Benjamin Tannert, Bremen City University of Applied Science, Germany

14:00

Posters, Demos, SRC & DC Session 1

[SRC] Activity Recognition in Older Adults with Training Data from Younger Adults: Preliminary Results on in Vivo Smartwatch Sensor Data

Fatima Sabahat

[Poster] Increasing Access to Trainer-led Aerobic Exercise for People with Visual Impairments through a Sensor Mat System

Jeehan Malik

[Poster] Determining a Taxonomy of Accessible Phrases During Exercise Instruction for People with Visual Impairments for Text Analysis

Kyle Rector

[Poster] Designing Apps to Support Engagement by Older Adults: A think-aloud study of the eNutri dietary-intake assessment web app

Eve Kelly

[Poster] "What just happened?": Understanding Non-visual Watching Sports Experiences

Saki Asakawa


[SRC] Measuring Text Comprehension for People with Reading Difficulties Using a Mobile Application

Andreas Säuberli

[Demo] iReadMore: A Reading Therapy App Co-Designed by People with Aphasia and Alexia

Thomas Langford

[Poster] Augmenta11y: A Reading Assistant Application for Children with Dyslexia

Tushar Gupta

[SRC] Voice Creator: Giving Customized Voice to the Voiceless for Online Communication

Hyeon Jeong Byeon

[Poster] Exploring the Requirements of Abuse Reporting for Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Krishna Venkatasubramanian


[SRC] Auditory feedback to compensate audible instructions to support people with visual impairment

Gabriele Galimberti

[Poster] Word Cloud for Meeting: A Visualization System for DHH People in Online Meetings

Ryo Iijima

[Demo] Visionary Caption: Improving the Accessibility of Presentation Slides Through Highlighting Visualization

Kotaro Hara

[Demo] SynSLaG: Synthetic Sign Language Generator

Teppei Miura

[Demo] Equivalent Telecommunications Access on Mobile Devices

Spencer Montan


[Poster] Sidewalk Gallery: An Interactive, Filterable Image Gallery of Over 500,000 Sidewalk Accessibility Problems

Jon Froehlich

[Poster] GazeMetro: A Gaze-Based Interactive System for Metro Map

Zhuo Yang

[Demo] Experimental Crowd+AI Approaches to Track Accessibility Features in Sidewalk Intersections Over Time

Ather Sharif & Jon Froehlich

[Poster] "Would the smart cane benefit me?": Perceptions of the Visually Impaired towards Smart Canes

Rezylle Milallos


[SRC] Adee: Bringing Accessibility Right Inside Design Tools

Samine Hadadi

[Poster] Using Games to Practice Screen Reader Gestures

André Rodrigues

[Poster] New Metrics for Understanding Touch by People with and without Limited Fine Motor Function

Junhan Kong

[Poster] A Preliminary Analysis of Android Educational Game Accessibility

Jesse Martinez


14:45

Break (15 mins)

15:00

Paper Session 2: Immersive and wearable technologies

Session Chairs:

  • Amy Hurst, New York University, USA
  • Claire Kearney-Volpe, Verizon, USA
  • Nearmi: A Framework for Designing Point of Interest Techniques for VR Users with Limited Mobility
    Rachel L. Franz: University of Washington;
    Sasa Junuzovic: Microsoft Research;
    Martez Mott: Microsoft Research
  • Beyond Adaptive Sports: Challenges & Opportunities to Improve Accessibility and Analytics
    Rushil Khurana: Carnegie Mellon University;
    Ashley Wang: Carnegie Mellon University;
    Patrick Carrington: Carnegie Mellon University
  • Wearable Interactions for Users with Motor Impairments: Systematic Review, Inventory, and Research Implications
    Alexandru-Ionut Siean: Ștefan cel Mare University of Suceava;
    Radu-Daniel Vatavu: Ștefan cel Mare University of Suceava
  • Accessing Passersby Proxemic Signals through a Head-Worn Camera: Opportunities and Limitations for the Blind
    Kyungjun Lee: University of Maryland;
    Daisuke Sato: Carnegie Mellon University;
    Saki Asakawa: New York University;
    Chieko Asakawa: IBM;
    Hernisa Kacorri: University of Maryland
  • Panel Q&A

16:00 - 17:00

1970s Zoom Dance Party


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Program Schedule for Tuesday October 19, 2021

TIME [EDT]
-3h Seattle [PDT]
+5h London [BST]
+6h Central Europe [CET]

EVENT

9:00

Paper Session 3: Health and support systems

Session Chairs:

  • Mingming Fan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
  • Yuhang Zhao, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
  • Understanding Barriers and Design Opportunities to Improve Healthcare and QOL for Older Adults through Voice Assistants
    Chen Chen: University of California San Diego;
    Janet G Johnson: University of California San Diego;
    Kemeberly Charles: University of California San Diego;
    Alice Lee: University of California San Diego;
    Ella T Lifset: University of California San Diego;
    Michael Hogarth: University of California San Diego;
    Alison A Moore: University of California San Diego;
    Emilia Farcas: University of California San Diego;
    Nadir Weibel: University of California San Diego
  • How Online Tests Contribute to the Support System for People With Cognitive and Mental Disabilities*
    Qisheng Li: University of Washington;
    Josephine Lee: University of Washington;
    Christina Zhang: University of Washington;
    Katharina Reinecke: University of Washington
    award  Best Paper Nominee
  • Designing an App to help Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities to Recognize Abuse
    Thomas Howard III: University of Rhode Island;
    Krishna Venkatasubramanian: University of Rhode Island;
    Jeanine L M Skorinko: Worcester Polytechnic Insitute;
    Pauline Bosma: Massachusetts Adovcates Standing Strong;
    John Mullaly: Massachusetts Adovcates Standing Strong;
    Brian Kelly: Massachusetts Advocates Standing Strong;
    Deborah Lloyd: Massachusetts Advocates Standing Strong;
    Mary Wishart: University of Rhode Island;
    Emiton Alves: University of Rhode Island;
    Nicole Jutras: Worcester Polytechnic Institute;
    Mariah Freark: Massachusetts Disabled Persons Protection Commission;
    Nancy A. Alterio: Massachusetts Disabled Persons Protection Commission
  • Beyond Fun: Players’ Experiences of Accessible Rehabilitation Gaming with Spinal Cord Injury
    Gabriele Cimolino: Queen's University;
    Sussan Askari: Providence Care Hospital;
    T.C. Nicholas Graham: Queen's University
  • VIDDE: Visualizations for Helping People with COPD Interpret Dyspnea During Exercise
    Claudia Chen: University of Toronto;
    Robert Wu: University Health Network;
    Hashim Khan: UHN;
    Khai Truong: University of Toronto;
    Fanny Chevalier: University of Toronto
  • Panel Q&A

10:00

Break (15 mins)

10:15

Paper Session 4: Screen readers and effective descriptions

Session Chairs:

  • Jeff Bigham, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  • Amy Pavel, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  • Understanding Screen-Reader Users’ Experiences with Online Data Visualizations
    Ather Sharif: University of Washington;
    Sanjana Shivani Chintalapati: University of Washington;
    Jacob O. Wobbrock: University of Washington;
    Katharina Reinecke: University of Washington
  • Understanding Screen Readers' Plugins
    Farhani Momotaz: Pennsylvania State University;
    Md Touhidul Islam: Pennsylvania State University;
    Md Ehtesham-Ul-Haque: Penn State University;
    Syed Masum Billah: Pennsylvania State University
  • Going Beyond One-Size-Fits-All Image Descriptions to Satisfy the Information Wants of People Who are Blind or Have Low Vision
    Abigale Stangl: University of Washington;
    Nitin Verma: University of Texas at Austin;
    Kenneth R. Fleischmann: The University of Texas at Austin;
    Meredith Ringel Morris: Microsoft Research;
    Danna Gurari: University of Texas at Austin
  • The Efficacy of Collaborative Authoring of Video Scene Description*
    Rosiana Natalie: Singapore Management University;
    Jolene Loh Loh: Singapore Management University;
    Huei Suen Tan: Singapore Management University;
    Joshua Tseng: Singapore Managamenet University;
    Ian Luke Yi-Ren Chan: Singapore Managamenet University;
    Ebrima H Jarjue: University of Maryland (Umd);
    Hernisa Kacorri: University of Maryland;
    Kotaro Hara: Singapore Management University
    award  Best Paper Nominee

  • Panel Q&A

11:15

Break (10 mins)

11:25

50th Anniversary Panel 2: The History of SIGACCESS

Moderator:

  • Shari Trewin

Panelists:

  • Harriet Fell
  • Jason Freeman
  • Vicki Hanson
  • Clayton Lewis

12:30

Gold Sponsors

Adobe

Elsevier

12:45

Break (45 mins)

13:30

Poster Previews Session 2

Short video previews of each of today's posters, demos, student research competition submissions, and doctoral consortium artifacts will be played.

Session Chairs:

  • Jon Froehlich, University of Washington, USA
  • Benjamin Tannert, Bremen City University of Applied Science, Germany

14:00

Posters, Demos, SRC & DC Session 2

[DC] Making web accessibility more accessible

Vincenzo Rubano

[Poster] Designing Sensory and Social Tools for Neurodivergent Individuals in Social Media Environments

Lauren Race

[Poster] Sound Cells: Rendering Visual and Braille Music in the Browser

Fabiha Ahmed

[Poster] Designing a Podcast Platform for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users

Kristen Shinohara

[Demo] Image Explorer: Multi-Layered Touch Exploration to Make Images Accessible

Jaewook Lee


[DC] The Use of Automatic Text Simplification to Provide Reading Assistance to Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Individuals in Computing Fields

Oliver Alonzo

[DC] Audio Description Technology for Live Theater: Exploring New Approaches

Dirk Vander Wilt

[Poster] Uncovering Patterns in Reviewers' Feedback to Scene Description Authors

Rosiana Natalie

[DC] Facilitating Sharing and Re-use of Accessibility Datasets: Benefits and Risks

Rie Kamikubo

[Poster] Respectful Language as Perceived by People with Disabilities

Lior Levy


[DC] Mobile Augmented Reality Using Deep Learning for Visually Impaired People

Tianshi Xie

[Demo] See-Through Captions: Real-Time Captioning on Transparent Display for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing People

Kenta Yamamoto

[DC] Shifting Narratives: Understanding and Amplifying Creative Labor among People with Disabilities

Katya Borgos-Rodriguez

[Demo] CollabAlly: Accessible Collaboration Awareness in Document Editing

Zhuohao Zhang

[Poster] myView: End-user Authoring of Virtual Environments for Therapy

Sérgio Alves


[DC] Helping Students with Cerebral Palsy Program via Voice-Enabled Block-based Programming

Obianuju Okafor

[DC] Programming by Voice

Sadia Nowrin

[Poster] Fostering collaboration with asymmetric roles in accessible programming environments for children with mixed-visual-abilities

Filipa Rocha

[Demo] Kavita Project: Voice Programming for People with Motor Disabilities

Dayanlee De León Cordero


[DC] Tactile Play and Literacy Learning for Blind or Visually Impaired Children

Vinitha Gadiraju

[Demo] An Intelligent Math E-Tutoring System for Students with Specific Learning Disabilities

Zikai Alex DWen

[Poster] Making Math Graphs More Accessible in Remote Learning: Using Sonification to Introduce Discontinuity in Calculus

Keita Ohshiro

[Poster] Active Math Learning for Students with Writing Disabilities

Kale Kurtzhall


14:45

Break (15 mins)

15:00

Paper Session 5: Representations of disability and researcher perspectives

Session Chairs:

  • Cynthia Bennett, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  • Lauren Milne, Macalester College, USA
  • What difference does tech make? Conceptualizations of Disability and Assistive Technology among Kenyan Youth
    Giulia Barbareschi: University College London;
    Norah Shitawa Kopi: Shujaaz Inc;
    Ben Oldfrey: UCL;
    Catherine Holloway: University College London
  • "That's in the eye of the beholder": Layers of Interpretation in Image Descriptions for Fictional Representations of People with Disabilities
    Emory James Edwards: University of California Irvine;
    Kyle Lewis Polster: University of California Irvine;
    Isabel Tuason: University of California Irvine;
    Michael Gilbert: Google;
    Emily Blank: Google;
    Stacy Branham: University of California, Irvine
  • Accept or Address? Researchers’ Perspectives on Response Bias in Accessibility Research*
    Joy Ming: Cornell;
    Sharon Heung: Cornell Tech;
    Shiri Azenkot: Cornell Tech;
    Aditya Vashistha: Cornell
    award  Best Paper Nominee

  • Mixed abilities and varied experiences: a group auto-ethnography of a virtual summer internship*
    Kelly Mack: University of Washington;
    Maitraye Das: Northwestern University;
    Dhruv Jain: University of Washington;
    Danielle Bragg: Microsoft Research;
    John Tang: Microsoft;
    Andrew Begel: Microsoft;
    Erin Beneteau: University of Washington;
    Josh Urban Davis: Dartmouth College;
    Abraham Glasser: Rochester Institute of Technology;
    Joon Sung Park: Stanford University;
    Venkatesh Potluri: University of Washington
    award  Best Paper Nominee

  • Panel Q&A

16:00 - 17:00

SIGACCESS Business Meeting - All Welcome

  • SIGACCESS Chair - Matt Huenerfauth, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
  • SIGACCESS Vice-chair - Kathleen McCoy, University of Delaware, USA
  • SIGACCESS Treasurer - Karyn Moffatt, McGill University, Canada

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Program Schedule for Wednesday October 20, 2021

TIME [EDT]
-3h Seattle [PDT]
+5h London [BST]
+6h Central Europe [CET]

EVENT

9:00

TACCESS Presentations Session 1:

Session Chair:

  • Tiago Guerreiro, University of Lisbon, Portugal
  • Echolocation as a Means for People with Visual Impairment (PVI) to Acquire Spatial Knowledge of Virtual Space
    Ronny Andrade: The University of Melbourne
    Jenny Waycott: The University of Melbourne
    Steven Baker: The University of Melbourne
    Frank Vetere: The University of Melbourne
  • Fully Autonomous Vehicles for People with Visual Impairment: Policy, Accessibility, and Future Directions
    Paul D.S. Fink: The University of Maine
    Jessica A Holz: The University of Maine
    Nicholas A Giudice: The University of Maine
  • Investigating Best Practices for Remote Summative Usability Testing with People with Mild to Moderate Dementia
    Rachel Wood: University of Maryland
    Emma Dixon: University of Maryland
    Salma Elsayed-Ali: University of Maryland
    Ekta Shokeen: University of Maryland
    Amanda Lazar: University of Maryland
    Jonathan Lazar: University of Maryland
  • A Longitudinal Evaluation of Tablet-Based Child Speech Therapy with Apraxia World
    Adam Hair: Texas A&M University;
    Kirrie J Ballard: The University of Sydney;
    Constantina Markoulli: The University of Sydney;
    Penelope Monroe: The University of Sydney;
    Jacqueline McKechnie: The University of Sydney;
    Beena Ahmed: University of New South Wales;
    Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna: Texas A&M University;
  • Enhancing Internet Search Abilities for People with Intellectual Disabilities in Sri Lanka
    Theja K Arachchi: Queensland University of Technology and University of Ruhuna;
    Laurianne Sitbon: Queensland University of Technology;
    Jinglan Zhang: Queensland University of Technology;
    Ruwan Gamage: University of Colombo;
    Priyantha Hewagamage: University of Colombo
  • A Comparison of Touchscreen and Mouse for Real-World and Abstract Tasks with Older Adults Sunghee Kim: Dong-eui University;
    Kailun Zhang: University of British Columbia;
    Joanna McGrenere: University of British Columbia;
    Kellogg S. Booth: University of British Columbia;
    Claudia Jacova: Pacific University;
  • The FATE Landscape of Sign Language AI Datasets: An Interdisciplinary Perspective Danielle Bragg: Microsoft Research;
    Naomi Caselli: Boston University;
    Julie A Hochgesang: Gallaudet University;
    Matt Huenerfauth: Rochester Institute of Technology;
    Leah Katz-Hernandez: Microsoft;
    Oscar Koller: Microsoft;
    Raja Kushalnagar: Gallaudet University;
    Christian Vogler: Gallaudet University;
    Richard E. Ladner: University of Washington
  • Discussions on Discord

10:00

Break (15 mins)

10:15

Paper Session 6: Novel tools and usability studies

Session Chairs:

  • Kotaro Hara, Singapore Management University, Singapore
  • Arthur Theil, Offenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany
  • American Sign Language Video Anonymization to Support Online Participation of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users*
    Sooyeon Lee: Rochester Institute of Technology;
    Abraham Glasser: Rochester Institute of Technology;
    Becca Dingman: Rochester Institute of Technology;
    Zhaoyang Xia: Rutgers University;
    Dimitris Metaxas: Rutgers University;
    Carol Neidle: Boston University;
    Matt Huenerfauth: Rochester Institute of Technology
    award  Best Paper Nominee

  • Designing Tools for High-Quality Alt Text Authoring*
    Kelly Mack: University of Washington;
    Edward Cutrell: Microsoft Research;
    Bongshin Lee: Microsoft Research;
    Meredith Ringel Morris: Microsoft Research
    award  Best Paper Nominee

  • Slidecho: Flexible Non-Visual Exploration of Presentation Videos
    Yi-Hao Peng: Carnegie Mellon University;
    Jeffrey P Bigham: Carnegie Mellon University;
    Amy Pavel: Carnegie Mellon University
  • VStroll: An Audio-based Virtual Exploration to Encourage Walking among People with Vision Impairments
    Gesu India: Microsoft Research;
    Mohit Jain: Microsoft Research;
    Pallav Karya: Microsoft Research;
    Nirmalendu Diwakar: Microsoft Research;
    Manohar Swaminathan: Microsoft Research
  • Panel Q&A

11:15

Break (10 mins)

11:25

50th Anniversary Panel 3: The Relationship Between Disability Rights and Digital Accessibility

Moderator:

  • Daniel Goldstein

Panelists:

  • Shadi Abou-Zahra
  • Deborah Kaplan
  • Mark Riccobono
  • Howard Rosenblum

12:30

Gold Sponsors

Facebook

12:45

Break (45 mins)

13:30

Poster Previews Session 3

Short video previews of each of today's posters, demos, student research competition submissions, and doctoral consortium artifacts will be played

Session Chairs:

  • Jon Froehlich, University of Washington, USA
  • Benjamin Tannert, Bremen City University of Applied Science, Germany

14:00

Posters, Demos, SRC & DC Session 3

[Poster] Landscape Analysis of Commercial Visual Assistance Technologies

Abigale Stangl

[Poster] A review of how older adults' computer skills and proficiency are reported in the literature

Faustina Hwang

[Poster] Interview and Think-Aloud Accessibility for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Participants in Design Research

Kristen Shinohara

[Poster] Meeting Participants with Intellectual Disabilities during COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Improvisation

Leandro Soares Guedes

[Poster] Expanding Designing for One to Invite Others Through Reverse Inclusion

Manesha Andradi


[Poster] TWalker - An Autonomous, Interactive Walking Aid

Johannes Hackbarth

[Poster] Collecting Sidewalk Network Data at Scale for Accessible Pedestrian Travel

Yuxiang Zhang

[Poster] Robot Trajectories When Approaching a User with a Visual Impairment

Jirachaya "Fern" Limprayoon

[Poster] An automated AR-based annotation tool for indoor navigation for visually impaired people

Pei Du

[Demo] Clew3D: Automated Generation of O&M Instructions Using LIDAR-Equipped Smartphones

Hwei-Shin Harriman


[Demo] Rehabilitation through Accessible Mobile Gaming and Wearable Sensors

Dragan Ahmetovic

[Poster] Colorable Band: A Wearable Device to Encourage Daily Decision Making Based on Behavior of Users with Color Vision Deficiency

Akira Uehara

[Demo] Inverse Color Contrast Checker: Automatically Suggesting Color Adjustments that meet Contrast Requirements on the Web

Frode Eika Sandnes

[Poster] Social Haptic Communication mimicked with vibrotactile patterns - an evaluation by users with deafblindness

Myrthe Plaisier

[Demo] PatRec: A Mobile Game for Learning Social Haptic Communication

Jessica Vuijk


[Poster] Accessible Citizen Science, by people with intellectual disability

Laurianne Sitbon

[Poster] Is home-based webcam eye-tracking with older adults living with and without Alzheimer's disease feasible?

Anne-Marie Greenaway

[Demo] An Open-source Tool for Simplifying Computer and Assistive Technology Use

Gregg Vanderheiden

[Poster] Towards Using Live Photos to Mitigate Image Quality Issues In VQA Photography

Lauren Olson


[Poster] Accessibility Support in Web Frameworks

Yasmine Elglaly

[Poster] Towards a Secured and Safe Online Social Media Design Framework for People with Intellectual Disability

Ya-Wen Chang

[Poster] Designing a Pictorial Communication Web Application With People With Intellectual Disability

Laurianne Sitbon

[Demo] SciA11y: Converting Scientific Papers to Accessible HTML

Lucy Wang


14:45

Break (15 mins)

15:00

Paper Session 7: AI and Accessibility

Session Chairs:

  • Anhong Guo, University of Michigan, USA
  • Aqueasha Martin Hammond, IUPUI, USA
  • Fluent: An AI Augmented Writing Tool for People who Stutter
    Bhavya Ghai: Stony Brook University;
    Klaus Mueller: Stony Brook University
  • Disability-first Dataset Creation: Lessons from Constructing a Dataset for Teachable Object Recognition with Blind and Low Vision Data Collectors
    Lida Theodorou: City, University of London;
    Daniela Massiceti: Microsoft Research;
    Luisa Zintgraf: University of Oxford;
    Simone Stumpf: City, University of London;
    Cecily Morrison: Microsoft Research;
    Edward Cutrell: Microsoft Research;
    Matthew Tobias Harris: City, University of London;
    Katja Hofmann: Microsoft
  • Sharing Practices for Datasets Related to Accessibility and Aging
    Rie Kamikubo: University of Maryland;
    Utkarsh Dwivedi: University of Maryland;
    Hernisa Kacorri: University of Maryland
  • WLA4ND: a Wearable Dataset of Learning Activities for Young Adults with Neurodiversity to Provide Support in Education
    Hui Zheng: George Mason University;
    Pattiya Mahapasuthanon: George Mason University;
    Yujing Chen: George Mason University;
    Huzefa Rangwala: George Mason University;
    Anya S Evmenova: George Mason University;
    Vivian Genaro Motti: George Mason University
  • Panel Q&A

16:00 - 17:00

1970s-themed Singalong


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Program Schedule for Thursday October 21, 2021

TIME [EDT]
-3h Seattle [PDT]
+5h London [BST]
+6h Central Europe [CET]

EVENT

9:00

Student Research Competition Finals

Session Chair:

  • Dragan Ahmetovic, University of Milan, Italy

10:00

Break (15 mins)

10:15

TACCESS Presentations Session 2

Session Chair:

  • Stephanie Ludi, University of North Texas, USA
  • Towards Designing Mobile Apps for Independent Travel: Exploring Current Barriers and Opportunities for Supporting Young Adults with Down's Syndrome
    Al Majed Khan: University of Strathclyde;
    Mark D Dunlop: University of Strathclyde;
    Marilyn Lennon: University of Strathclyde;
    Mateusz Dubiel: University of Strathclyde
  • How could Equality and Data Protection law shape AI Fairness for People with Disabilities?
    Reuben Binns, University of Oxford;
    Reuben Kirkham, Monash University
  • Computer Vision-based Methodology to Improve Interaction for People with Motor and Speech Impairment
    Rúbia E O Schultz Ascari: UFPR and UTFPR;
    Roberto Pereira: UFPR;
    Luciano Silva: UFPR
  • Accessible Web Development: Opportunities to improve education & practice of web development with a screen reader
    Claire Kearney-Volpe: New York University;
    Amy Hurst: New York University
  • Irrelevant Gadgets or a Source of Worry: Exploring Wearable Activity Trackers with Older Adults
    Dimitri Vargemidis: KU Leuven;
    Kathrin Gerling: KU Leuven;
    Vero Vanden Abeele: KU Leuven;
    Luc Geurts: KU Leuven;
    Katta Spiel: KU Leuven, TU Wien
  • Melodie: A Design Inquiry into Accessible Crafting through Audio-enhanced Weaving
    Katya Borgos-Rodriguez: Northwestern University;
    Maitraye Das: Northwestern University;
    Anne Marie Piper: University of California, Irvine
  • Immersive Virtual Reality for Older Adults: Empirically Grounded Design Guidelines
    Vero Vanden Abeele: KU Leuven;
    Brenda Schraepen: KU Leuven;
    Hanne Huygelier: KU Leuven;
    Céline Gillebert: KU Leuven;
    Kathrin Gerling: KU Leuven;
    Raymond van Ee: KU Leuven
  • Discussions on Discord

11:15

Break (10 mins)

11:25

Paper Session 8: Independence and everyday living

Session Chairs:

  • André Rodrigues, University of Lisbon, Portugal
  • David Gonçalves, University of Lisbon, Portugal
  • Non-Visual Cooking: Exploring Practices and Challenges of Meal Preparation by People with Visual Impairments
    Franklin Mingzhe Li: Carnegie Mellon University;
    Jamie Dorst: Carnegie Mellon University;
    Peter Cederberg: Carnegie Mellon University;
    Patrick Carrington: Carnegie Mellon University
  • Deinstitutionalizing Independence: Discourses of Disability and Housing in Accessible Computing
    Kevin M Storer: University of California, Irvine;
    Stacy Branham: University of California, Irvine
  • Opportunities for Supporting Self-efficacy Through Orientation & Mobility Training Technologies for Blind and Partially Sighted People Maryam Bandukda: University College London;
    Catherine Holloway: University College London;
    Aneesha Singh: University College London;
    Giulia Barbareschi: University College London;
    Nadia Berthouze: University College London
  • Investigating the Navigational Habits of People who are Blind in India
    Anirudh Nagraj: University of Maryland, Baltimore County;
    Ravi Kuber: University of Maryland, Baltimore County;
    Foad Hamidi: University of Maryland, Baltimore County;
    Raghavendra Prasad S G: R.V. College of Engineering
  • Panel Q&A

12:30

Break (60 mins)

13:30

Experience Reports

Session Chair:

  • Martez Mott, Microsoft Research, USA
  • Kyle Rector, University of Iowa, USA

  • A Case for Making Web Accessibility Guidelines Accessible: Older Adult Content Creators and Web Accessibility Planning
    Aqueasha Martin-Hammond: Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis;
    Ulka Patil: Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis;
    Barsa Tandukar: Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
  • Developing Accessible Mobile Applications with Cross-Platform Development Frameworks
    Sergio Mascetti: Università degli Studi di Milano; Mattia Ducci: Università degli Studi di Milano;
    Niccolò Cantù: Università degli Studi di Milano;
    Paolo Pecis: Università degli Studi di Milano;
    Dragan Ahmetovic: Università degli Studi di Milano
  • Interdependent Variables: Remotely Designing Tactile Graphics for an Accessible Workflow
    Lilian de Greef: Apple;
    Dominik Moritz: Apple;
    Cynthia L Bennett: Apple
  • Lost in Translation: Challenges and Barriers to Conducting Sign Language-Accessible User Research in Remote Environments
    Amelie Unger: Ergosign GmbH;
    Dieter P. Wallach: Ergosign GmbH;
    Nicole Jochems: Institute for Multimedia and Interactive Systems
  • Providing and Accessing Support During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences of Mental Health Professionals, Community and Vocational Support Providers, and Adults with ASD
    Tiffany Thang: University of California, Santa Cruz;
    Alice Liang: University of California Santa Cruz;
    Yechan Choi: UC Santa Cruz;
    Adrian Parrales: University of California;
    Sara H. Kuang: UC Santa Cruz;
    Sri Kurniawan: University of California Santa Cruz;
    Heather Perez: Hope Services
  • Regulating Personal Cameras for Disabled People and People with Deafblindness: Implications for HCI and Accessible Computing
    Sarah L. Woodin: University of Leeds;
    Arthur Theil: Birmingham City University

Panel Discussion

14:45

Break (15 mins)

15:00

Paper Session 9: Communication and novel interactions

Session Chairs:

  • Danielle Bragg, Microsoft, USA
  • Abraham Glasser, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
  • At a Different Pace: Evaluating Whether Users Prefer Timing Parameters in American Sign Language Animations to Differ from Human Signers’ Timing
    Sedeeq Al-khazraji: Rochester Institute of Technology;
    Becca Dingman: Rochester Institute of Technology;
    Sooyeon Lee: Rochester Institute of Technology;
    Matt Huenerfauth: Rochester Institute of Technology
  • I See What You Are Saying: A Literature Review of Eye Tracking Research in Communication of Deaf or Hard of Hearing Individuals*
    Chanchal Agrawal: Rochester Institute of Technology;
    Roshan L Peiris: Rochester Institute of Technology
    award  Best Paper Nominee

  • “It is fascinating to make these beasts fly”: Understanding Visually Impaired People’s Motivations and Needs for Drone Piloting
    Vinitha Gadiraju: University of Colorado Boulder;
    Jérémie Garcia: ENAC - Université de Toulouse;
    Shaun Kane: University of Colorado Boulder;
    Anke M. Brock: University Toulouse
  • Aided Nonverbal Communication through Physical Expressive Objects*
    Stephanie Valencia: Carnegie Mellon University;
    Mark Steidl: Disability Rights Advocate;
    Michael L Rivera: Carnegie Mellon University;
    Cynthia L Bennett: Carnegie Mellon University;
    Jeffrey P Bigham: Carnegie Mellon University;
    Henny Admoni: Carnegie Mellon University
    award  Best Paper Nominee

  • Panel Q&A

16:00 - 17:00

TACCESS Editorial Board Meeting (by invitation only)


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Program Schedule for Friday October 22, 2021

TIME [EDT]
-3h Seattle [PDT]
+5h London [BST]
+6h Central Europe [CET]

EVENT

10:00

Closing Keynote Presentation

Participatory Design and Research: Challenges for Augmentative and Alternative Communication Technologies

Annalu Waller

10:40

Keynote Q&A

11:00

Awards, Closing & ASSETS’22 Announcement


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