iSchool researchers to present at ASSETS 2024

iSchool faculty and students will present their research at the 26th International Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group (SIG) ACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2024), which will be held on October 28-30 in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The conference is the premier forum for presenting research on design, evaluation, use, and education related to computing for people with disabilities and older adults.

In addition to the conference presentations below, doctoral candidate Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou, Associate Professor Rachel Adler, and Assistant Professor JooYoung Seo co-organized a pre-workshop, "Teaching Accessibility in Different Disciplines: Topics, Approaches, Resources, Challenges," which was held virtually on October 23.

Monday, October 28

Assistant Professor JooYoung Seo and his external research advisee Kenneth Ge, an undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon University, will demonstrate "StereoMath: An Accessible and Musical Equation Editor" at 10:15 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, October 29

Informatics PhD student Aziz Zeidieh will present the experience report, "'Seven Stitches Later': A Technologically Interdependent Travel Experience from the Perspective of a Visually Impaired Individual," at 9:00 a.m.

PhD student Sanchita Kamath will present the poster, "Playing Without Barriers: Crafting Playful and Accessible VR Table-Tennis with and for Blind and Low-Vision Individuals," which she co-authored with Informatics PhD student Aziz Zeidieh; Omar Khan, PhD student in computer science; Dhruv Sethi, Seo's undergraduate intern from Manipal Academy of Higher Education-Dubai, and Assistant Professor JooYoung Seo, at 10:15 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.

Assistant Professor JooYoung Seo will present the paper, "MAIDR Meets AI: Exploring Multimodal LLM-Based Data Visualization Interpretation by and with Blind and Low-Vision Users," which he coauthored with PhD student Sanchita Kamath; Informatics PhD student Aziz Zeidieh; Saairam Venkatesh, master's student in computer science; and Sean McCurry, Seo's external collaborator at TransPerfect, at 2:00 p.m.

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