CSE 590 W - Accessibility Research Seminar - Autumn 2012

Time and Place

  • Autumn quarter 2012
  • CSE 303
  • Wednesdays, 10:30 - 11:20

Instructor

Organization

Each week one or two papers will be assigned for reading. A student in the seminar will take the lead in first summarizing the papers and giving an initial critique. The lead student will then lead a discussion about the paper. Students should sign up for 2 credits maximum.

Schedule

  • September 26, 2012 - led by Richard Ladner
    • Organizational meeting.
  • October 3, 2012 - Video Game Accessibility led by John Porter
    • Bei Yuan, Eelke Folmer, and Frederick C. Harris, Jr.. 2011. Game accessibility: a survey. Universal Access in the Information Society 10, 1 (March 2011), 81-100. Paper (UWNID required)
  • October 10, 2012 - Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) led by Katie O'Leary
    • Higginbotham, D., Kim, K., & Scally, C. (2007). The effect of the communication output method on augmented interaction. AAC: Augmentative & Alternative Communication, 23(2), 140-153. Paper (UWNID required)
  • October 17, 2012 - Accessible Health led by Kyle Rector
    • Tony Morelli, John Foley, and Eelke Folmer. 2010. Vi-bowling: a tactile spatial exergame for individuals with visual impairments. In Proceedings of the 12th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility (ASSETS '10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 179-186. Paper (UWNID required)
    • Tony Morelli, John Foley, Luis Columna, Lauren Lieberman, and Eelke Folmer. 2010. VI-Tennis: a vibrotactile/audio exergame for players who are visually impaired. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG '10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 147-154. Paper (UWNID required)
  • October 24, 2012
    • No seminar due to ASSETS 2012.
  • October 31, 2012 - Speech Interaction led by Shiri Azenkot
    • Ian J. Pitt and Alistair D. N. Edwards. 1996. Improving the usability of speech-based interfaces for blind users. In Proceedings of the second annual ACM conference on Assistive technologies(Assets '96). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 124-130. Paper (UWNID required)
    • Jinjuan Feng, Clare-Marie Karat, Andrew Sears. How productivity improves in hands-free continuous dictation tasks: lessons learned from a longitudinal study Interacting with Computers, Volume 17, Issue 3, May 2005, Pages 265-289. Paper (UWNID required)
  • November 7, 2012 - Audio/Tactile Interfaces led by Lauren Milne
    • N.A. Giudice, P. HariPrasath, Eric Brenner, K.M Kramer. 2012. Learning Non-Visual Graphical Information Using a Touch-Based Vibro-Audio Interface. In Proceedings of the 14th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility (ASSETS '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 103-110. Paper (UWNID required)
  • November 14, 2012 - Context-Aware AAC led by Catherine Baker
    • Shaun K. Kane, Barbara Linam-Church, Kyle Althoff, Denise McCall. What We Talk About: Designing a Context-Aware Communication Tool for People with Aphasia. In Proceedings of the 14th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility (ASSETS '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 49-56. Paper (UWNID required)
  • November 21, 2012 - Blind Photography led by Poshen Lee
    • Marynel Vazquez, Aaron Steinfeld. Helping Visually Impaired Users Properly Aim a Camera. In Proceedings of the 14th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility (ASSETS '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 95-102. Paper (UWNID required)
  • November 28, 2012 - Crowdsourced Real-time Captioning led by Camille Cobb
    • Walter Lasecki, Christopher Miller, Adam Sadilek, Andrew Abumoussa, Donato Borrello, Raja Kushalnagar, and Jeffrey Bigham. 2012. Real-time captioning by groups of non-experts. In Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST '12). Paper (UWNID required)
    • Raja S. Kushalnagar, Walter S. Lasecki, Jeffrey P. Bigham. A Readability Evaluation of Real-Time Crowd Captions in the Classroom. In Proceedings of the 14th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility (ASSETS '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 71-78. Paper (UWNID required)
  • December 5, 2012 - Mobile Devices in Support of Deaf people led by Jessica Tran
    • Fabio Buttussi, Luca Chittaro, Elio Carchietti, and Marco Coppo. 2010. Using mobile devices to support communication between emergency medical responders and deaf people. In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services (MobileHCI '10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 7-16. Paper (UWNID required)