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21st ASSETS 2019: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Jeffrey P. Bigham, Shiri Azenkot, Shaun K. Kane:
The 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2019, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, October 28-30, 2019. ACM 2019, ISBN 978-1-4503-6676-2
Keynote Presentation + Award Conferral
- Karen Nakamura:
My Algorithms Have Determined You're Not Human: AI-ML, Reverse Turing-Tests, and the Disability Experience. 1-2
Paper Session 1: Speaking and Signing
- Linda Kozma-Spytek, Paula Tucker, Christian Vogler:
Voice Telephony for Individuals with Hearing Loss: The Effects of Audio Bandwidth, Bit Rate and Packet Loss. 3-15 - Danielle Bragg, Oscar Koller, Mary Bellard, Larwan Berke, Patrick Boudreault, Annelies Braffort, Naomi Caselli, Matt Huenerfauth, Hernisa Kacorri, Tessa Verhoef, Christian Vogler, Meredith Ringel Morris:
Sign Language Recognition, Generation, and Translation: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. 16-31 - Janine Butler, Brian P. Trager, Byron Behm:
Exploration of Automatic Speech Recognition for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students in Higher Education Classes. 32-42 - Sushant Kafle, Peter Yeung, Matt Huenerfauth:
Evaluating the Benefit of Highlighting Key Words in Captions for People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. 43-55 - Oliver Alonzo, Abraham Glasser, Matt Huenerfauth:
Effect of Automatic Sign Recognition Performance on the Usability of Video-Based Search Interfaces for Sign Language Dictionaries. 56-67
Paper Session 2: Invisible Interactions
- João Guerreiro, Daisuke Sato, Saki Asakawa, Huixu Dong, Kris M. Kitani, Chieko Asakawa:
CaBot: Designing and Evaluating an Autonomous Navigation Robot for Blind People. 68-82 - Kyungjun Lee, Jonggi Hong, Simone Pimento, Ebrima Jarjue, Hernisa Kacorri:
Revisiting Blind Photography in the Context of Teachable Object Recognizers. 83-95 - Jian Xu, Syed Masum Billah, Roy Shilkrot, Aruna Balasubramanian:
DarkReader: Bridging the Gap Between Perception and Reality of Power Consumption in Smartphones for Blind Users. 96-104 - Sushil K. Oswal:
Disability, ICT and eLearning Platforms: Faculty-Facing Embedded Work Tools in Learning Management Systems. 105-111 - Bindita Chaudhuri, Leah Perlmutter, Justin Petelka, Philip Garrison, James Fogarty, Jacob O. Wobbrock, Richard E. Ladner:
GestureCalc: An Eyes-Free Calculator for Touch Screens. 112-123
Paper Session 3: Learning, Cognition, and Emotion
- Joana Lobo, Soichiro Matsuda, Izumi Futamata, Ryoichi Sakuta, Kenji Suzuki:
CHIMELIGHT: Augmenting Instruments in Interactive Music Therapy for Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders. 124-135 - Rachel L. Franz, Leah Findlater, Bárbara Barbosa Neves, Jacob O. Wobbrock:
Gender and Help Seeking by Older Adults When Learning New Technologies. 136-142 - Andrew A. Bayor, Laurianne Sitbon, Bernd Ploderer, Filip Bircanin, Stewart Koplick, Margot Brereton:
Leveraging Participation: Supporting Skills Development of Young Adults with Intellectual Disability Using Social Media. 143-155 - Kathryn E. Ringland, Jennifer Nicholas, Rachel Kornfield, Emily G. Lattie, David C. Mohr, Madhu C. Reddy:
Understanding Mental Ill-health as Psychosocial Disability: Implications for Assistive Technology. 156-170 - Laurianne Sitbon, Ross Brown, Lauren Fell:
Turning Heads: Designing Engaging Immersive Video Experiences to Support People with Intellectual Disability when Learning Everyday Living Skills. 171-182
Paper Session 4: Finding your Way (to this session)
- Leona Holloway, Kim Marriott, Matthew Butler, Samuel Reinders:
3D Printed Maps and Icons for Inclusion: Testing in the Wild by People who are Blind or have Low Vision. 183-195 - Galen Weld, Esther Han Beol Jang, Anthony Li, Aileen Zeng, Kurtis Heimerl, Jon E. Froehlich:
Deep Learning for Automatically Detecting Sidewalk Accessibility Problems Using Streetscape Imagery. 196-209 - Chris Yoon, Ryan Louie, Jeremy Ryan, MinhKhang Vu, Hyegi Bang, William Derksen, Paul Ruvolo:
Leveraging Augmented Reality to Create Apps for People with Visual Disabilities: A Case Study in Indoor Navigation. 210-221 - Manaswi Saha, Alexander J. Fiannaca, Melanie Kneisel, Edward Cutrell, Meredith Ringel Morris:
Closing the Gap: Designing for the Last-Few-Meters Wayfinding Problem for People with Visual Impairments. 222-235 - Dhruv Jain, Audrey Desjardins, Leah Findlater, Jon E. Froehlich:
Autoethnography of a Hard of Hearing Traveler. 236-248
Paper Session 5: Design Matters
- Hugo Nicolau, André Rodrigues, André R. B. Santos, Tiago João Guerreiro, Kyle Montague, João Guerreiro:
The Design Space of Nonvisual Word Completion. 249-261 - Rua M. Williams, LouAnne E. Boyd:
Prefigurative Politics and Passionate Witnessing. 262-266 - Rachel L. Franz, Jacob O. Wobbrock, Yi Cheng, Leah Findlater:
Perception and Adoption of Mobile Accessibility Features by Older Adults Experiencing Ability Changes. 267-278 - Cynthia L. Bennett, Abigale Stangl, Alexa F. Siu, Joshua A. Miele:
Making Nonvisually: Lessons from the Field. 279-285 - Ine D'haeseleer, Kathrin Gerling, Dominique Schreurs, Bart Vanrumste, Vero Vanden Abeele:
Ageing is Not a Disease: Pitfalls for the Acceptance of Self-Management Health Systems Supporting Healthy Ageing. 286-298
Paper Session 6: Touchy Feely
- Xiang Zhi Tan, Elizabeth J. Carter, Samantha Reig, Aaron Steinfeld:
Go That Way: Exploring Supplementary Physical Movements by a Stationary Robot When Providing Navigation Instructions. 299-311 - Cristian Bernareggi, Dragan Ahmetovic, Sergio Mascetti:
μGraph: Haptic Exploration and Editing of 3D Chemical Diagrams. 312-317 - Darren Guinness, Annika Muehlbradt, Daniel Szafir, Shaun K. Kane:
RoboGraphics: Dynamic Tactile Graphics Powered by Mobile Robots. 318-328 - Abigale Stangl, Ann Cunningham, Lou Ann Blake, Tom Yeh:
Defining Problems of Practices to Advance Inclusive Tactile Media Consumption and Production. 329-341 - Alexa F. Siu, Son Kim, Joshua A. Miele, Sean Follmer:
shapeCAD: An Accessible 3D Modelling Workflow for the Blind and Visually-Impaired Via 2.5D Shape Displays. 342-354
Paper Session 7: Web Warriors: Web &Media Accessibility
- Mohit Jain, Rohun Tripathi, Ishita Bhansali, Pratyush Kumar:
Automatic Generation and Evaluation of Usable and Secure Audio reCAPTCHA. 355-366 - Cole Gleason, Amy Pavel, Xingyu Liu, Patrick Carrington, Lydia B. Chilton, Jeffrey P. Bigham:
Making Memes Accessible. 367-376 - Claire Kearney-Volpe, Devorah Kletenik, Kate Sonka, Deborah Sturm, Amy Hurst:
Evaluating Instructor Strategy and Student Learning Through Digital Accessibility Course Enhancements. 377-388 - Sujeath Pareddy, Anhong Guo, Jeffrey P. Bigham:
X-Ray: Screenshot Accessibility via Embedded Metadata. 389-395 - Michael D. Jones, M. Jeannette Lawler:
Delivering Sign Language in a Live Planetarium Show Using Head-Mounted Displays and Infrared Light. 396-401
Paper Session 8: Listen to this!
- Giorgio Presti, Dragan Ahmetovic, Mattia Ducci, Cristian Bernareggi, Luca A. Ludovico, Adriano Baratè, Federico Avanzini, Sergio Mascetti:
WatchOut: Obstacle Sonification for People with Visual Impairment or Blindness. 402-413 - Alexandra Vtyurina, Adam Fourney, Meredith Ringel Morris, Leah Findlater, Ryen W. White:
VERSE: Bridging Screen Readers and Voice Assistants for Enhanced Eyes-Free Web Search. 414-426 - Reeti Mathur, Aishwarya Sheth, Parimal Vyas, Davide Bolchini:
Typing Slowly but Screen-Free: Exploring Navigation over Entirely Auditory Keyboards. 427-439 - Sergio Mascetti, Dragan Ahmetovic, Cristian Bernareggi:
Research to Market Transition of Mobile Assistive Technologies for People with Visual Impairments. 440-445 - Stacy M. Branham, Antony Rishin Mukkath Roy:
Reading Between the Guidelines: How Commercial Voice Assistant Guidelines Hinder Accessibility for Blind Users. 446-458
Paper Session 9: Bodies in Motion
- Corten Clemente Singer, Björn Hartmann:
See-Thru: Towards Minimally Obstructive Eye-Controlled Wheelchair Interfaces. 459-469 - Ahmad Alsaleem, Ross Imburgia, Mateo Godinez, Andrew Merryweather, Roger Altizer, Tamara Denning, Jeffery Rosenbluth, Stephen Trapp, Jason Wiese:
Leveraging Shared Control to Empower People with Tetraplegia to Participate in Extreme Sports. 470-481 - Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Maria E. Cabrera, Anat Caspi, Maya Cakmak, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa:
A Community-Centered Design Framework for Robot-Assisted Feeding Systems. 482-494 - Shanmugam Muruga Palaniappan, Ting Zhang, Bradley S. Duerstock:
Identifying Comfort Areas in 3D Space for Persons with Upper Extremity Mobility Impairments Using Virtual Reality. 495-499 - Earl W. Huff Jr., Natalie DellaMaria, Brianna Posadas, Julian Brinkley:
Am I Too Old to Drive?: Opinions of Older Adults on Self-Driving Vehicles. 500-509
Poster Session I
- Rachel Menzies:
Unlocking Accessible Escape Rooms. 510-512 - Stephanie Valencia, Dwayne Lamb, Shane Williams, Harish S. Kulkarni, Ann Paradiso, Meredith Ringel Morris:
Dueto: Accessible, Gaze-Operated Musical Expression. 513-515 - Zikai Alex Wen, Anjelika Lynne S. Amog, Shiri Azenkot, Katherine Garnett:
Teacher Perspectives on Math E-Learning Tools for Students with Specific Learning Disabilities. 516-518 - Gesu India, Geetha Ramakrishna, Jyoti Bisht, Manohar Swaminathan:
Computational Thinking as Play: Experiences of Children who are Blind or Low Vision in India. 519-522 - Shiroq Al-Megren, Shaikha Al-Othman:
Addressing the Stigma of Epilepsy in Saudi Arabia for Co-Design. 523-525 - Rachel Menzies, Garreth W. Tigwell, Mandar Tamhane, Annalu Waller:
Weaving Accessibility Through an Undergraduate Degree. 526-529 - Ricardo Gonzalez, Carlos Gonzalez, John A. Guerra-Gomez:
Tactiled: Towards More and Better Tactile Graphics Using Machine Learning. 530-532 - Szu-Han Kay Chen, Soumya Wadhwa, Eric Nyberg:
Design and Analysis of Interoperable Data Logs for Augmentative Communication Practice. 533-535 - Olutayo Falase, Alexa F. Siu, Sean Follmer:
Tactile Code Skimmer: A Tool to Help Blind Programmers Feel the Structure of Code. 536-538 - Angela Constantinescu, Vanessa Petrausch, Karin Müller, Rainer Stiefelhagen:
Towards a Standardized Grammar for Navigation Systems for Persons with Visual Impairments. 539-541 - Seyed Ali Cheraghi, Ali Almadan, Vinod Namboodiri:
CityGuide: A Seamless Indoor-Outdoor Wayfinding System for People With Vision Impairments. 542-544 - Mariah Papy, Duncan Calder, Ngu Dang, Aidan McLaughlin, Breanna Desrochers, John J. Magee:
Simulation of Motor Impairment with. 545-547 - Manu Suresh, Jagannadh Pariti, Tae Tom Oh:
Dynamic Sensor Orientation Unit for the Intelligent Mobility Cane. 548-550 - Christina Low, Emma McCamey, Cole Gleason, Patrick Carrington, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Amy Pavel:
Twitter A11y: A Browser Extension to Describe Images. 551-553 - Amanda Lazar, Jonathan Lazar, Alisha Pradhan:
Using Modules to Teach Accessibility in a User-Centered Design Course. 554-556 - Dar'ya Heyko, David R. Flatla:
Gauging Interest in Digital Personalized Simulations of Hearing Loss For Parents of DHH Children. 557-559 - Meethu Malu, Pramod Chundury, Leah Findlater:
Motor Accessibility of Smartwatch Touch and Bezel Input. 563-565 - Xiangdong Wang, Jinghua Zhong, Jia Cai, Hong Liu, Yueliang Qian:
CBConv: Service for Automatic Conversion of Chinese Characters into Braille with High Accuracy. 566-568 - Raja S. Kushalnagar:
A Classroom Accessibility Analysis App for Deaf Students. 569-571
Poster Session II
- Kathryn E. Ringland, Christine T. Wolf, LouAnne E. Boyd, Jamie K. Brown, Andrew Palermo, Kimberley D. Lakes, Gillian R. Hayes:
DanceCraft: A Whole-body Interactive System for Children with Autism. 572-574 - Natalie Friedman, Andrea Cuadra, Ruchi Patel, Shiri Azenkot, Joel Stein, Wendy Ju:
Voice Assistant Strategies and Opportunities for People with Tetraplegia. 575-577 - Adam Hair, Kirrie J. Ballard, Beena Ahmed, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna:
Evaluating Automatic Speech Recognition for Child Speech Therapy Applications. 578-580 - Lauren Race, Chancey Fleet, Joshua A. Miele, Tom Igoe, Amy Hurst:
Designing Tactile Schematics: Improving Electronic Circuit Accessibility. 581-583 - Wanda Li, David R. Flatla:
30 Years Later: Has CVD Research Changed the World? 584-590 - Rachel L. Franz, Leah Findlater, Jacob O. Wobbrock:
Just Ask Me: Comparing Older and Younger Individuals' Knowledge of Their Optimal Touchscreen Target Sizes. 591-593 - Matthew Butler, Leona Holloway, Kim Marriott:
A Closer Look: Multi-Sensory Accessible Art Translations. 594-596 - Leona Holloway, Kirsten Ellis, Louise Curtin:
Building Capacity: eTextile Tactile Storybook Workshops. 597-599 - Nahyun Kwon, Youngji Koh, Uran Oh:
Supporting Object-level Exploration of Artworks by Touch for People with Visual Impairments. 600-602 - Breanna Desrochers, Ella Tuson, John J. Magee:
Evaluation of Why Individuals with ADHD Struggle to Find Effective Digital Time Management Tools. 603-605 - Dirk Vander Wilt, Morwaread Mary Farbood:
Syncing Pre-Recorded Audio Description to a Live Musical Theater Performance Using a Reference Audio Recording. 606-608 - Joey van der Bie, Christina Jaschinski, Somaya Ben Allouch:
Sidewalk, A Wayfinding Message Syntax for People with a Visual Impairment. 609-611 - Venkatesh Potluri, Liang He, Christine Chen, Jon E. Froehlich, Jennifer Mankoff:
A Multi-Modal Approach for Blind and Visually Impaired Developers to Edit Webpage Designs. 612-614 - Zhiqin Collin Wang, Carolyn Pang, Karyn Moffatt, Rock Leung, Joanna McGrenere:
Supporting Older Adults in the Use of Smart Devices for Personal Health Management. 615-617 - David Parker, Dianne T. V. Pawluk:
Exploration of Multi-fingered Access to 2D Spatial Information. 618-620 - Siny Joseph, Vinod Namboodiri:
Auxiliary Location-Based Services for Persons with Disabilities: What do City Planners and Non-Profit Agencies Think? 621-623 - Zhengyan Dai, Erin Brady:
Exploring Invisible Disability Disclosure in the Sharing Economy. 624-626 - Amelia N. Gibson, Kristen L. Bowen:
Developmental Personal Health Libraries: Supporting Independence through Design. 627-629 - Arshad Nasser, Kening Zhu, Sarah Wiseman:
Thermo-haptic Earable Display for the Hearing and Visually Impaired. 630-632 - Elliot Fox, Shane Baden, Justin Greene, Nick Ziegler, Moushumi Sharmin:
Connection: Assisting Neurodiverse Individuals in Forming Lasting Relationships Through a Digital Medium. 633-635
Demonstrations
- Fredrik Hansen, Josef Jan Krivan, Frode Eika Sandnes:
Still Not Readable? An Interactive Tool for Recommending Color Pairs with Sufficient Contrast based on Existing Visual Designs. 636-638 - Cagatay Goncu, Kim Marriott:
GraVVITAS 2.0: A Framework For Digital Accessible Content Provision. 639-641 - Sergio Mascetti, Giovanni Leontini, Cristian Bernareggi, Dragan Ahmetovic:
WordMelodies: Supporting Children with Visual Impairment in Learning Literacy. 642-644 - Jacqueline Shao Yi Ong, Nana Adwoa O. Amoah, Alison E. Garrett-Engele, Mariella Irene Page, Katherine R. McCarthy, Lauren R. Milne:
Demo: Expanding Blocks4All with Variables and Functions. 645-647 - Logan B. Caraco, Sebastian Deibel, Yufan Ma, Lauren R. Milne:
Making the Blockly Library Accessible via Touchscreen. 648-650 - William Christopher Payne, Alex Yixuan Xu, Amy Hurst, S. Alex Ruthmann:
Non-Visual Beats: Redesigning the Groove Pizza. 651-654 - Farzaneh Ahmadi, Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Tomoki Toda:
Development of a Real-time Bionic Voice Generation System based on Statistical Excitation Prediction. 655-657 - Abdelhadi Soudi, Kristof Van Laerhoven, Elmostafa Bou-Souf:
AfricaSign - A Crowd-sourcing Platform for the Documentation of STEM Vocabulary in African Sign Languages. 658-660 - Junhan Kong, Anhong Guo, Jeffrey P. Bigham:
Supporting Older Adults in Using Complex User Interfaces with Augmented Reality. 661-663 - Lei Shi, Yuhang Zhao, Elizabeth Kupferstein, Shiri Azenkot:
A Demonstration of Molder: An Accessible Design Tool for Tactile Maps. 664-666 - Leah Perlmutter, Bindita Chaudhuri, Justin Petelka, Philip Garrison, James Fogarty, Jacob O. Wobbrock, Richard E. Ladner:
Demonstration of GestureCalc: An Eyes-Free Calculator for Touch Screens. 667-669 - Ana Cristina Pires, Sebastian Marichal, Fernando González Perilli, Ewelina Bakala, Bruno Fleischer, Gustavo Sansone, Tiago João Guerreiro:
A Tangible Math Game for Visually Impaired Children. 670-672 - Darren Guinness, Annika Muehlbradt, Daniel Szafir, Shaun K. Kane:
RoboGraphics: Using Mobile Robots to Create Dynamic Tactile Graphics. 673-675 - Nicholas Bolten, Anat Caspi:
AccessMap Website Demonstration: Individualized, Accessible Pedestrian Trip Planning at Scale. 676-678 - Juliana Damasio Oliveira, Márcia de Borba Campos, Alexandre M. Amory, Rafael H. Bordini:
GoDonnie: A Robot Programming Language to Improve Orientation and Mobility Skills in People Who are Visually Impaired. 679-681 - Luis Cavazos Quero, Jorge David Iranzo Bartolomé, Dongmyeong Lee, Yerin Lee, Sangwon Lee, Jundong Cho:
Jido: A Conversational Tactile Map for Blind People. 682-684 - Gregg C. Vanderheiden, J. Bern Jordan:
Personalization and Layering to Simplify Computer Accessibility. 685-687
Student Research Abstracts
- Vinitha Gadiraju:
BrailleBlocks: Braille Toys for Cross-Ability Collaboration. 688-690 - Arshad Nasser:
Designing a Low-cost Finger Wearable Audio-tactile Device. 691-693 - Min Hun Lee:
An Intelligent Decision Support System for Stroke Rehabilitation Assessment. 694-696 - Andrew A. Bayor:
HowToApp: Supporting Life Skills Development of Young Adults with Intellectual Disability. 697-699 - Chloe Ng:
User Perspectives on Robotics for Post-stroke Hand Rehabilitation. 700-702 - Yash Naik:
A Wearable Input Mechanism for Blind Users of Computers Based on Mental Mapping of Thumb-To-Phalanx Distances. 703-705 - Ocean Hurd, Sri Kurniawan:
Insights for More Usable VR for People with Amblyopia. 706-708 - Richard Nguyen, Connor Geddes:
Exploring Haptic Colour Identification Aids. 709-711
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