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iSchool researchers to present at ASSETS 2025

iSchool faculty and students will present their research at the 27th International Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group (SIG) ACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2025), which will be held in Denver, Colorado, October 26–29, 2025. This conference allows researchers to present their scholarship on design, evaluation, use, and education related to computing for people with disabilities and older adults.

PhD students Olivia H. Wang and Chunyu Liu led a virtual pre-workshop, "Teaching Accessibility Across Disciplines: Perspectives from ADA Title II," on October 22, with co-organizers Associate Professor Rachel F. Adler, Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou (PhD ’25), assistant professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Deana McDonagh (Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois), Caterina Almendral (LaGuardia Community College), Devorah Kletenik (Brooklyn College), and Bruno Oro (Iowa State University). 

Monday, October 27

PhD student Sanchita S. Kamath, Informatics PhD student Aziz N. Zeidieh, and Assistant Professor JooYoung Seo will demonstrate "Explore, Listen, Inspect: Supporting Multimodal Interaction with 3D Surface and Point Data Visualizations" at 10:45 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.

Seo will demonstrate "VocalMath: A Novel Context-Aware Voice-Powered STEM Equation Workspace and Editor" with his external advisee Kenneth Ge, a computer science undergraduate student at Carnegie Mellon University, and external students Ryan Paul and Priscilla Zhang, at 10:45 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.

Recent graduate Tanusree Sharma (PhD '24), assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University, will present the paper, "'Before, I Asked My Mom, Now I Ask ChatGPT': Visual Privacy Management with Generative AI for Blind and Low-Vision People," co-authored with Professor Yang Wang; Yu-Yun Tseng and Danna Gurari  of the University of Colorado Boulder; and Lotus Zhang, Kelly Avery Mack, and Mackleah Findlater of the University of Washington.

PhD student Sanchita S. Kamath will present the technical paper, "PunchPulse: A Physically Demanding Virtual Reality Boxing Game Designed with, for and by Blind and Low-Vision Players," alongside co-authors Seo; Omar Khan, computer science PhD student; Anurag Choudhary, computer science alum; Jan Meyerhoff-Liang (University of Oxford); and Soyoung Choi (Department of Health and Kinesiology at Illinois) at 4:15 p.m.

Tuesday, October 28

Informatics PhD student Aziz N. Zeidieh and Seo will present the experience report, "Check Now, Can You See It?: Exploring Voice and Video-Capable Language Models for Identifying and Spatially Locating Items of Interest for Blind and Low-Vision Travelers," at 9:00 a.m.

Wednesday, October 29

PhD student Yaman Yu will present the paper, "From Cluttered to Clear: Improving the Web Accessibility Design for Screen Reader Users in E-commerce With Generative AI," co-authored with Wang and Bektur Ryskeldiev, Ayaka Tsutsui, and Matthew Gillingham of the Mercari R4D Lab in Tokyo at 2:00 p.m.

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