Publications

Leading assistive technology innovation via scientific insights

That’s in the eye of the beholder

Layers of Interpretation in Image Descriptions for Fictional Representations of People with Disabilities.
(video)
Emory James Edwards, Kyle Lewis Polster, Isabel Tuason, Emily Blank, Michael Gilbert, and Stacy Branham
ASSETS 2021
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29% acceptance rate

Towards More Universal Wayfinding Technologies

Navigation Preferences Across Disabilities
(video)
Maya Gupta, Ali Abdolrahmani, Emory Edwards, Mayra Cortez, Andrew Tumang, Yasmin Majali, Marc Lazaga, Samhitha Tarra, Prasad Patil, Ravi Kuber, and Stacy M. Branham
CHI 2020
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24% acceptance rate

Blind Leading the Sighted

Drawing Design Insights from Blind Users Towards More Productivity-Oriented Voice Interfaces
(video)
Ali Abdolrahmani, Kevin M. Storer, Antony Rishin Mukkath Roy, Ravi Kuber, and Stacy M. Branham
TACCESS
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January 2020

Reading Between the Guidelines

How Commercial Voice Assistant Guidelines Hinder Accessibility for Blind Users
(video)
Stacy M. Branham and Antony Rishin Mukkath Roy.
ASSETS 2019
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26% acceptance rate

“Siri Talks At You”

An Empirical Investigation of Voice Activated Personal Assistant (VAPA) Usage by Individuals Who are Blind
(video)
Ali Abdolrahmani, Ravi Kuber, and Stacy M. Branham.
ASSETS 2018
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26% acceptance rate

“Is Someone There? Do They Have a Gun?”

How Visual Information About Others Can Improve Personal Safety Management for Blind Individuals
(video)
Stacy M. Branham, Ali Abdolrahmani, William Easley, Morgan Scheuerman, Erick Ronquillo, and Amy Hurst
ASSETS 2018
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26% acceptance rate

Embracing Errors

Examining How Context of Use Impacts Blind Individuals’ Acceptance of Navigation Aid Errors
(video)
Ali Abdolrahmani, William Easley, Michele Williams, Stacy Branham, and Amy Hurst
CHI 2017
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25% acceptance rate

"All in the Same Boat"

Tradeoffs of Voice Assistant Ownership for Mixed-Visual-Ability Families.
(video)
Kevin M. Storer, Tejinder K. Judge, and Stacy M. Branham
CHI 2020
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24% acceptance rate

Are Current Voice Interfaces Designed to Support Children’s Language Development?

(video)
Ying Xu, Stacy Branham, Xinwei Deng, Penelope Collins, and Mark Warschauer
CHI 2021
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26% acceptance rate

Collaborative Accessibility

How Blind and Sighted Companions Co-Create Accessible Home Spaces.
(video)
Stacy M. Branham and Shaun K. Kane
CHI 2015
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23% acceptance rate

Deinstitutionalizing Independence

Discourses of Disability and Housing in Accessible Computing
(video)
Kevin M. Storer and Stacy M. Branham
ASSETS 2021
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29% acceptance rate

Gender Recognition or Gender Reductionism?

The Social Implications of Automatic Gender Recognition Systems
(video)
Foad Hamidi, Morgan Klaus Scheuerman, and Stacy M. Branham
CHI 2018
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23% acceptance rate

Interdependence as a Frame for Assistive Technology Research and Design

(video)
Cynthia L. Bennett, Erin Brady, and Stacy M. Branham
ASSETS 2018
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26% acceptance rate

Latte

Use-Case and Assistive-Service Driven Automated Accessibility Testing Framework for Android
(video)
Navid Salehnamadi, Abdulaziz Alshayban, Jun-Wei Lin, Iftekhar Ahmed, Stacy Branham, and Sam Malek
CHI 2021
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26% acceptance rate

Safe Spaces and Safe Places

Unpacking Technology-Mediated Experiences of Safety and Harm with Transgender People
(video)
Morgan Klaus Scheuerman, Stacy M. Branham, and Foad Hamidi
CSCW 2018
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26% acceptance rate

Sharing is Caring

Assistive Technology Designs on Thingiverse
(video)
Erin Buehler, Stacy Branham, Abdullah Ali, Jeremy J. Chang, Megan Kelly Hofmann, Amy Hurst, and Shaun K. Kane
CHI 2015
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23% acceptance rate

That’s the Way Sighted People Do It

What Blind Parents Can Teach Technology Designers About Co-Reading with Children
(video)
Kevin M. Storer and Stacy M. Branham
DIS 2019
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25% acceptance rate

The Invisible Work of Accessibility

How Blind Employees Manage Accessibility in Mixed-Ability Workplaces
(video)
Stacy M. Branham and Shaun K. Kane
ASSETS 2015
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24% acceptance rate

Towards More Transactional Voice Assistants

Investigating the Potential for a Multimodal Voice-Activated Indoor Navigation Assistant for Blind and Sighted Travelers
(video)
Ali Abdolrahmani, Maya Howes Gupta, Mei-Lian Vader, Ravi Kuber, and Stacy Branham
CHI 2021
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26% acceptance rate
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