CSE 590 W - Accessibility Research Seminar - Winter 2014

Time and Place

  • Winter quarter 2014
  • Tuesdays, 9:30 - 10:20
  • CSE 203

Instructors

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. There will be occasional talks by researchers.

Schedule

  • January 7, 2014 - Sonification in user interfaces for accessibility led by Kyle Rector
    • Pavani Yalla and Bruce N. Walker. 2008. Advanced auditory menus: design and evaluation of auditory scroll bars. In Proceedings of the 10th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility (Assets '08). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 105-112. Paper (UWNetID required)
  • January 14, 2014 - Adult autism support led by Kiley Sobel
    • Hwajung Hong, Jennifer G. Kim, Gregory D. Abowd, and Rosa I. Arriaga. 2012. Designing a social network to support the independence of young adults with autism. In Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 627-636. Paper (UWNetID required)
  • January 21, 2014 - Accessibility of programming environments led by Catie Baker
    • Andreas M. Stefik, Christopher Hundhausen, and Derrick Smith. 2011. On the design of an educational infrastructure for the blind and visually impaired in computer science. In Proceedings of the 42nd ACM technical symposium on Computer science education (SIGCSE '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 571-576. Paper (UWNetID required)
  • January 28, 2014 - Do-it-yourself AT led by John Porter
    • Amy Hurst and Jasmine Tobias. 2011. Empowering individuals with do-it-yourself assistive technology. In The proceedings of the 13th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility (ASSETS '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 11-18. Paper (UWNetID required)
    • Amy Hurst and Shaun Kane. 2013. Making "making" accessible. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 635-638. Paper (UWNetID required)
  • February 4, 2014 - Accessible Health and Fitness led by Lauren Milne
    • Chloe Fan, Jodi Forlizzi, and Anind Dey. 2012. Considerations for technology that support physical activity by older adults. In Proceedings of the 14th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility (ASSETS '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 33-40. Paper (UWNetID required)
  • February 11, 2014 - Independent living, a case study led by Kristen Shinohara
    • McCuaig, M. and Frank, G. (1991). The able self: Adaptive patterns and choices in independent living for a person with cerebral palsy. American Journal of Occupational Therapy 43 (3), pp. 224-234. Paper (UWNetID required)
  • February 18, 2014 - 3D Audio for Screen Reading led by Sangyun Hahn
    • K. Weerasekara, M. Dias, R. Rajapakse, P. Wimalarathne, and A. Dharmarathne. Two Dimensional Audio Environment for the Visually Impaired. International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTer), 2011. pages 46-51. Paper (UWNetID required)
    • F. Ribeiro, D. Florencio, P. Chou, and Zhengyou Zhang. Auditory augmented reality: Object sonification for the visually impaired. IEEE 14th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2012. pages 319-324. Paper (UWNetID required)
  • February 25, 2014 - Guest Speaker, Jonathan Lazar, Towson University. "Accessible and Usable CAPTCHAs for The Blind: A 7-Year Journey"
    • Jonathan Lazar, Jinjuan Feng, Tim Brooks, Genna Melamed, Brian Wentz, Jon Holman, Abiodun Olalere, and Nnanna Ekedebe. 2012. The SoundsRight CAPTCHA: an improved approach to audio human interaction proofs for blind users. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2267-2276. Paper (UWNetID required)
  • March 4, 2014 - Access to audio environments by people who are deaf led by Unnati Mehta
    • F. Wai-ling Ho-Ching, Jennifer Mankoff, and James A. Landay. 2003. Can you see what i hear?: the design and evaluation of a peripheral sound display for the deaf. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '03). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 161-168. Paper (UWNetID required)
  • March 11, 2014 - Readers for people with dyslexia led by Megan Campbell
    • Matthew H. Schneps, Jenny M. Thomson, Chen Chen, Gerhard Sonnert, and Marc Pomplun. E-Readers Are More Effective than Paper for Some with Dyslexia. PLOS One, September 18, 2013. Paper