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- Work in ProgressApril 2023
An Expressivity-Complexity Tradeoff?: User-Defined Gestures from the Wheelchair Space are Mostly Deictic
CHI EA '23: Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsArticle No.: 35, Pages 1–8https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3585695We present empirical results about gesture expressivity and articulation complexity from an analysis of 231 gestures elicited from eleven wheelchair users, for which we employ a combination of McNeill’s gesture theory from psycholinguistics and a ...
- research-articleApril 2023Honorable Mention
Understanding Wheelchair Users’ Preferences for On-Body, In-Air, and On-Wheelchair Gestures
CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsArticle No.: 78, Pages 1–16https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580929We present empirical results from a gesture elicitation study conducted with eleven wheelchair users that proposed on-body, in-air, and on-wheelchair gestures to effect twenty-one referents representing common actions, types of digital content, and ...
- research-articleOctober 2022
Interactive Public Displays and Wheelchair Users: Between Direct, Personal and Indirect, Assisted Interaction
UIST '22: Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and TechnologyArticle No.: 45, Pages 1–17https://doi.org/10.1145/3526113.3545662We examine accessible interactions for wheelchair users and public displays with three studies. In a first study, we conduct a Systematic Literature Review, from which we report very few scientific papers on this topic and a preponderant focus on touch ...
- posterSeptember 2020
SMAller aid: exploring shape-changing assistive wearables for people with mobility impairment
UbiComp/ISWC '20 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Symposium on Wearable ComputersPages 86–89https://doi.org/10.1145/3410530.3414418Individuals with mobility impairments often discuss the challenges associated with donning and doffing shirts (i.e. putting them on and taking them off). Limited previous work has tackled this issue, but the comfort and aesthetic integrity of the shirt ...
- short-paperOctober 2019
Identifying Comfort Areas in 3D Space for Persons with Upper Extremity Mobility Impairments Using Virtual Reality
ASSETS '19: Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and AccessibilityPages 495–499https://doi.org/10.1145/3308561.3353810We present a method to extract workspace comfort areas for ergonomic placement of assistive technologies for persons with upper extremity mobility impairments Currently, areas of comfort are determined using multiple physical prototypes over several ...
- research-articleMay 2019Best Paper
Project Sidewalk: A Web-based Crowdsourcing Tool for Collecting Sidewalk Accessibility Data At Scale
- Manaswi Saha,
- Michael Saugstad,
- Hanuma Teja Maddali,
- Aileen Zeng,
- Ryan Holland,
- Steven Bower,
- Aditya Dash,
- Sage Chen,
- Anthony Li,
- Kotaro Hara,
- Jon Froehlich
CHI '19: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsPaper No.: 62, Pages 1–14https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300292We introduce Project Sidewalk, a new web-based tool that enables online crowdworkers to remotely label pedestrian-related accessibility problems by virtually walking through city streets in Google Street View. To train, engage, and sustain users, we ...
- posterOctober 2018
A Feasibility Study of Using Google Street View and Computer Vision to Track the Evolution of Urban Accessibility
ASSETS '18: Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and AccessibilityPages 340–342https://doi.org/10.1145/3234695.3240999Previous work has explored scalable methods to collect data on the accessibility of the built environment by combining manual labeling, computer vision, and online map imagery. In this poster paper, we explore how to extend these methods to track the ...
- research-articleMay 2017
Sharing automatically tracked activity data: implications for therapists and people with mobility impairments
PervasiveHealth '17: Proceedings of the 11th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for HealthcarePages 136–145https://doi.org/10.1145/3154862.3154864The ability to share automatically tracked health and fitness behaviors has yielded benefits ranging from increasing user motivation to providing therapists with greater insight into their patients' progress. While past work on sharing this data has ...
- research-articleMay 2016
Toward accessible health and fitness tracking for people with mobility impairments
Electronic health and fitness trackers have received substantial attention over the past decade, from new mobile and wearable technologies to evaluations of potential health impacts. These trackers, however, may not be accessible to people with mobility ...