Please join myself, Foad Hamidi, Jason, Kelly Mack, and Kirk Crawford for a hybrid workshop envisioning the future of accessibility. Submission Deadline: 9/28 🧵 1/6 make4all.github.io/a11yfutures/

Consider applying to our online #ASSETS2023 workshop focused on tackling the lack of practical guidance in disability-centered research. Our deadline is October 3rd. For more info, check out assets2023guide.mere.st and help us spread the word! sigaccess #a11y

The Human-Centered Machine Intelligence group at @apple is hiring interns for 2024. We do research in Accessibility, Visualization, Learning Science, UI Understanding, and ML Developer Tools. Learn more and follow the instructions at apple.box.com/v/hcmi-interns…

If you are a CHI AC looking for qualified reviewers, I have some great PhD students open to reviewing: Chu Li for urban informatics, accessibility, crowdsourcing, & data vis; Xia Su in AR/VR, accessibility, & AI-infused creativity-support tools.

I’ll be in NYC this week to attend my first #assets23. Looking forward to meeting all the new friends! Kexin Zhang will present our work on how avatars with disability signifiers impact social experiences of people w/disabilities in social VR (Yuhang Zhao, Elmira Deldari )

It is happening. Hsuanling Lee is presenting our #UIST2023 poster on tangible modules for blind and low vision people to create custom DIY AT. This work was led by Liwen He and Yufan Li, in collaboration with Yuhang Zhao and Mingming Fan DOI: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35…

We are hosting a workshop led by Matias Volonte and Mar Gonzalez Franco (Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco) on Open Access Tools and Libraries for Virtual Reality IEEE Virtual Reality. Looking for AR/VR researchers, developers, and practitioners to together shape the VR development! Please consider submitting!!! 📢

Check out our demo video on GazePrompt, a gaze-aware system to support low vision people in reading tasks!!! #chi2024 #a11y youtube.com/watch?v=SMbDfQ…

📢📢📢 We are recruiting 2 summer REU students to work on social VR accessibility and safety! The deadline is April 30th! Please reach out or RT! UW-Madison Computer Sciences Virginia Tech Computer Science #CHI24 #VirtualReality #a11y

Please find more application details about the summer REU here: yuhangz.com/recruitment/

Please retweet: My students are recruiting participants for a study on technology to support physical activity. If you are interested in getting more exercise and own an iPhone, please fill out our screening survey: bit.ly/physical-activ…

📢🌴 This morning 11:15 am, we will be presenting a cool project GazePrompt, a gaze-aware system that recognizes low vision people’s gaze behaviors and presents targeted augmentations to support reading (presented by Ru Wang Ru Wang 🐛)! Come to join us at Room 319! #CHI2024 #a11y

#CHI2024 AR has great potential to support first responders in emergency tasks. Today at 11:30 am, my student Kexin Kexin Zhang will talk about her study with 26 first responders to co-design AR interfaces and distill guidelines supported by National Institute of Standards and Technology. Please join us at 316B!

I am at #CHI2024 and will be recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025 at UW–Madison. Let’s talk if you are interested in human-centered and responsible AI or AI governance and policy!

'This really lets us see the entire world:' Designing a conversational telepresence robot for homebound older adults -- a really fun project and collaboration while first author Yaxine Hu was visiting CMU Human-Computer Interaction Institute (at #dis2024, July 4th at 4:15pm) cs.cmu.edu/~jbigham/pubs/…