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Program

• Sunday, October 19th (Registration and DC)
• Monday, October 20th
• Tuesday, October 21st
• Wednesday, October 22nd


• Poster and Demo Session 1 (Monday, October 20th, 14:30 - 16:00)
• SRC, DC, and Travel Scholars Posters (Monday, October 20th, 17:00 - 20:00)
• RIT Research Demos (Monday, October 20th, 17:00 - 20:00)
• Poster and Demo Session 2 (Tuesday, October 21nd, 16:30 - 18:00)

Sunday, October 19th

08:00 — 18:00	Doctoral Consortium This event is only open to the invited students and the faculty panel.
17:00 — 19:00	Registration desk open

Monday, October 20th

08:45 — 09:15	Opening Session
09:15 — 10:00	Keynote: Computing for Humans Vicki Hanson, Rochester Institute of Technology and University of Dundee 2014 SIGACCESS Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computing and Accessibility
10:00 — 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 — 12:00	Paper Session - Independence Session Chair: Kathy McCoy, University of Delaware The Blind Driver Challenge: Steering using Haptic Cues Burkay Sucu (University of Nevada); Eelke Folmer (University of Nevada) Where’s My Bus Stop? Supporting Independence of Blind Transit Riders with StopInfo Megan Campbell (University of Washington); Cynthia Bennett (University of Washington); Caitlin Bonnar (University of Washington); Alan Borning (University of Washington) Headlock: a Wearable Navigation Aid that Helps Blind Cane Users Traverse Large Open Spaces Alexander Fiannaca (University of Nevada, Reno); Ilias Apostolopoulous (University of Nevada, Reno); Eelke Folmer (University of Nevada, Reno) Technology to reduce social isolation and loneliness Ron Baecker (Univ. of Toronto); Kate Sellen (OCAD U.); Sarah Crosskey (OCAD U.); Veronique Boscart (Conestoga College); Barbara Barbosa Neves (Univ. of Toronto)
12:00 — 13:00	Lunch Break
13:00 — 14:30	Paper Session - Practices and Tools Session Chair: Faustina Hwang, Reading University A Large User Pool for Accessibility Research with Representative Users Marianne Dee (University of Dundee); Vicki L. Hanson (Rochester Institute of Technology) Verification of Daily Activities of Elders: A Simple, Non-Intrusive, Low-Cost Approach Loïc Caroux (Inria); Charles Consel (University of Bordeaux / Inria); Lucile Dupuy (Inria Hélène Sauzéon University of Bordeaux / Inria) How Companies Engage Customers Around Accessibility on Social Media Erin Brady (University of Rochester); Jeffrey Bigham (Carnegie Mellon University) Buildings and Users with Visual Impairment: Uncovering Factors for Accessibility using BITKit Lesley McIntyre (University of Dundee); Vicki L. Hanson (Rochester Institute of Technology)
14:30 — 16:00	Poster and Demo Session 1
16:30	Transportation to RIT Buses depart from Conference Hotel to Rochester Institute of Technology
17:00 — 20:00	Reception, Research Demos, SRC, DC, and Travel Scholars Poster Session
19:45	First Departure to Conference Hotel
20:00	Second Departure to Conference Hotel
20:15	Last Departure to Conference Hotel

Tuesday, October 21st

08:45 — 10:15	Paper Session - Information Access Session Chair: Shari Trewin, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center From Screen Reading to Aural Glancing: Towards Instant Access to Key Page Sections Prathik Gadde (Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing); Davide Bolchini (Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing) Tactile Graphics with a Voice: Using QR Codes to Access Text in Tactile Graphics Catherine M. Baker (University of Washington); Lauren R. Milne (University of Washington); Jeffrey Scofield (University of Washington); Cynthia L. Bennett (University of Washington); Richard E. Ladner (University of Washington) Evaluating the accessibility of line graphs through textual summaries for visually impaired users Priscilla Moraes (University of Delaware); Gabriel Sina (University of Delaware); Kathleen McCoy (University of Delaware); Sandra Carberry (University of Delaware) Including Blind People in Computing Through Access to Graphs Suzanne Balik (North Carolina State University); Sean Mealin (North Carolina State University); Matthias Stallmann (North Carolina State University); Robert Rodman (North Carolina State University); Michelle Glatz (North Carolina State University); Veronica Sigler (North Carolina State University)
10:15 — 10:50	Coffee Break
10:50 — 12:00	Paper Session - Objects and Interfaces Session Chair: Heidi Feng, Towson University Usability Issues with 3D User Interfaces for Adolescents with High Functioning Autism Chao Mei (University of Texas at San Antonio); Lee Mason (University of Texas at San Antonio); John Quarles (University of Texas at San Antonio) ABC and 3D: Opportunities and Obstacles to 3D Printing in Special Education Environments Erin Buehler (University of Maryland, Baltimore County); Shaun Kane (University of Maryland, Baltimore County); Amy Hurst (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) TACCESS Presentation - Automatic Task Assistance for People with Cognitive Disabilities in Brushing Teeth - a User Study with the TEBRA System Christian Petersen (Center of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology, Bielefeld University), Thomas Hermann (Center of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology, Bielefeld University), Sven Wachsmuth (Center of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology, Bielefeld University), Jesse Hoey (University of Waterloo)
12:00 — 13:00	Lunch
13:00 — 14:00	Student Research Competition Finalist Presentations
14:00 — 15:00	SIGACCESS Business Meeting and Coffee Break
15:00 — 16:30	Paper Session - Interaction Session Chair: Tiago Guerreiro, University of Lisbon Design of and Subjective Response to On-body Input for People With Visual Impairments Uran Oh (University of Maryland, College Park); Leah Findlater (University of Maryland, College Park) Motor-Impaired Touchscreen Interactions in the Wild Kyle Montague (University of Dundee); Hugo Nicolau (University of Dundee); Vicki L. Hanson (Rochester Institute of Technology) TACCESS Paper - Distinguishing Users By Pointing Performance in Laboratory and Real-World Tasks Amy Hurst (Carnegie Mellon University), Scott E. Hudson (Carnegie Mellon University), Jennifer Mankoff (Carnegie Mellon University), Shari Trewin (T.J. Watson Research Center) Experience Report - Designing a Text Entry Multimodal Keypad for Blind Users of Touchscreen Mobile Phones Maria Claudia Buzzi (IIT-CNR, Via Moruzzi, Pisa, Italy); Marina Buzzi (IIT-CNR, Via Moruzzi, Pisa, Italy); Barbara Leporini (IIT-CNR, Via Moruzzi, Pisa, Italy); Loredana Martusciello (IIT-CNR, Via Moruzzi, Pisa, Italy); Amaury Trujillo (IIT-CNR, Via Moruzzi, Pisa, Italy)
16:30 — 18:00	Poster and Demo Session 2
18:00 — 18:30	Walking to the Strong Museum of Play
18:30 — 20:30	Reception
21:00 — 22:00	Text Entry Challenge Accumulation Event This event will take place at conference hotel

Wednesday, October 22nd

08:30 — 10:00	Paper Session - Applications and Games Session Chair: Raja Kushalnagar, National Technical Institue for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology BraillePlay: Educational Smartphone Games for Blind Children Lauren R. Milne (University of Washington); Cynthia L. Bennett (University of Washington); Shiri Azenkot (University of Washington); Richard E. Ladner (University of Washington) Tablet-Based Activity Schedule for Children with Autism in Mainstream Environment Charles Fage (Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest); Léonard Pommereau (Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest); Charles Consel (Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest); Émilie Balland (Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest); Hélène Sauzéon (Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest) A Computer-Based Method to Improve the Spelling of Children with Dyslexia Luz Rello (Cookie Cloud); Clara Barrayi (Cookie Cloud); Yolanda Otal (Creix Barcelona); Martin Pielot (Telefonica Research) Design and Evaluation of a Networked Game to Support Social Connection of Youth with Cerebral Palsy Hamilton A Hernandez (Queen's University); Mallory Ketcheson (Queen's University); Adrian Schneider (Queen's University); Zi Ye (Queen's University); Darcy Fehlings (University of Toronto, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital); Lauren Switzer (Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital); Virginia Wright (Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital); Shelly K Bursick (Queen's University); Chad E Richards (Queen's University); T.C. Nicholas Graham (Queen's University)
10:00 — 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 — 12:00	Paper Session - Communication Session Chair: Matt Huenerfauth, Rochester Institute of Technology Text-to-Speeches: Evaluating the Perception of Concurrent Speech by Blind People João Guerreiro (Instituto Superior Técnico - Universidade de Lisboa / INESC-ID); Daniel Gonçalves (Instituto Superior Técnico - Universidade de Lisboa / INESC-ID) Analyzing the Intelligibility of Real-Time Mobile Sign Language Video Transmitted Below Recommended Standards Jessica J. Tran (University of Washington); Ben Flowers (University of Washington); Eve A. Riskin (University of Washington); Richard E. Ladner (University of Washington); Jacob O. Wobbrock (University of Washington) Enhancing Caption Accessibility through simultaneous multimodal information: Visual-Tactile Captions Raja Kushalnagar (Rochester Institute of Technology); Gary Behm (Rochester Institute of Technology); Joseph Stanislow (Rochester Institute of Technology); Vasu Gupta (Rochester Institute of Technology) Age, Technology Usage, and Cognitive Characteristics in Relation to Perceived Disorientation and Reported Website Ease of Use Michael Crabb (University of Dundee); Vicki L. Hanson (Rochester Institute of Technology)
12:00 — 13:00	Lunch
13:00 — 14:30	Paper Session - Mobility Session Chair: Jeffrey Bigham, Carnegie Mellon University The Gest-Rest: A Pressure-Sensitive Chairable Input Pad for Power Wheelchair Armrests Patrick Carrington (University of Maryland, Baltimore County); Amy Hurst (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) Shaun Kane (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) Accessibility in Context: Understanding the Truly Mobile Experience of Smartphone Users with Motor Impairments Maia Naftali (University of Maryland, College Park); Leah Findlater (University of Maryland, College Park) "Just Let the Cane Hit It": How the Blind and Sighted See Navigation Differently Michele A. Williams (University of Maryland, Baltimore County); Caroline Galbraith (University of Maryland, Baltimore County); Shaun K. Kane (University of Maryland, Baltimore County); Amy Hurst (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) Path-Guided Indoor Navigation for the Visually Impaired Using Minimal Building Retrofitting Dhruv Jain (MIT Media Lab)
14:30 — 15:15	Wrap-up and Awards

Poster and Demo Session 1 (Monday, October 20th, 14:30 - 16:00)

Posters 1

• Digital Tools for Disabled Artists
• Chris Creed, Russell Beale and Paula Dower

• Implementation and Evaluation of Animation Controls Sufficient for Conveying ASL Facial Expressions
• Hernisa Kacorri and Matt Huenerfauth

• Automatically identifying trouble-indicating speech behaviors in Alzheimer's disease
• Frank Rudzicz, Leila Chan Currie, Andrew Danks, Tejas Mehta and Shunan Zhao

• Development of tactile graph generation software using the R statistical software environment
• Kosuke Araki, Tetsuya Watanabe and Kazunori Minatani

• Online Review System for People with Developmental Disabilities
• Luke Buschmann, Lourdes Morales and Sri Kurniawan

• An Accelerated Scanning Communication System with Adaptive Automatic Error Correction Mechanism
• Hiroki Mori

• Tongue-able Interfaces: Evaluating Techniques for a Camera Based Tongue Gesture Input System
• Shuo Niu, Li Liu and Scott McCrickard

• Assessing Technology Use in Aphasia
• Abi Roper, Jane Marshall and Stephanie Wilson

• “OK Glass?” A Preliminary Exploration of Google Glass for Persons with Motor Impairments
• Meethu Malu and Leah Findlater

• Accessible mHealth for Patients with Dexterity Impairments
• Daihua Yu, Bambang Parmanto, Brad Dicianno, Valerie Watzlaf and Katherine Seelman

• Using Computer Vision to Access Appliance Displays
• Giovanni Fusco, Ender Tekin, Richard Ladner and James Coughlan

• Increasing the Bandwidth of Crowdsourced Visual Question Answering to Better Support Blind Users
• Walter Lasecki, Yu Zhong and Jeffrey Bigham

• Development of Accessible Toolset to Enhance Social Interaction Opportunities for People with Cerebral Palsy in India
• Tirthankar Dasgupta, Manjira Sinha and Anupam Basu

• Moving from Entrenched Structure to a Universal Design
• Leyla Zhuhadar, Bryan Carson and Jerry Daday

Demos 1

• Real-Time Caption Challenge: C-Print
• Michael Stinson, Pamela Francis, Lisa Elliot and Donna Easton

• SpeechOmeter: Heads-up Speech Monitoring to Improve Speech Clarity
• Mansoor Pervaiz and Rupal Patel

• Headlock: a Wearable Navigation Aid that Helps Blind Cane Users Traverse Large Open Spaces
• Alexander Fiannaca, Ilias Apostolopoulous and Eelke Folmer

• Coming to Grips: 3D Printing for Accessibility
• Erin Buehler, Megan Hofmann and Amy Hurst

• Move&Flick: Design and Evaluation of a Single-finger and Eyes-free Kana-character Entry Method on Touch Screens
• Ryosuke Aoki, Ryo Hashimoto, Akihiro Miyata, Shunichi Seko, Masahiro Watanabe and Masayuki Ihara

• Expression: A Google Glass based Assistive Solution for Social Signal Processing
• ASM Iftekhar Anam, Shahinur Alam and Mohammed Yeasin

• M.I.D.A.S. Touch: Magnetic Interactive Device for Alternative Sight through Touch
• Taylan Sen, Morgan Sinko, Alex Wilson and Mohammed Hoque

• Motion History to Improve Communication and Switch Access for People with Severe and Multiple Disabilities
• Guang Yang, Mamoru Iwabuchi, Rumi Hirabayashi, Kenryu Nakamura, Kimihiko Taniguchi, Syoudai Sano and Takamitsu Aoki

• AVD-LV: An Accessible Player for Captioned STEM Videos
• Raja Kushalnagar, John Rivera, Warrance Yu and Daniel Steed

Text-Entry Challenge 1

• AccessBraille: Tablet-based Braille Entry
• Stephanie Ludi, Michael Timbrook and Piper Chester

• Speech Dasher: A Demonstration of Text Input using Speech and Approximate Pointing
• Keith Vertanen and David J.C. MacKay

• Text-Entry By Raising the Eyebrow with HaMCoS
• Torsten Felzer and Stephan Rinderknecht

• Text Entry Using Single-Channel Analog Puff Input
• Adam Sporka

• KeyGlasses: Semi-transparent keys on soft keyboard
• Mathieu Raynal

SRC, DC, and Travel Scholars Posters @ Reception (Monday, October 20th, 17:00 - 20:00)

Student Research Competition

• VisAural: A Wearable Sound-Localisation Device for People with Impaired Hearing
• Benjamin M. Gorman

• Does It Look Beautiful?: Communicating Aesthetic Information about Artwork to the Visually Impaired
• Caroline Galbraith

• Web Accessibility Evaluation with the Crowd: Using Glance to Rapidly Code User Testing Video
• Mitchell Gordon

• Strategies: An Inclusive Authentication Framework
• Natã Barbosa

• Introducing Web Accessibility to Localization Students: Implications for a Universal Web
• Silvia Rodríguez Vázquez

• Accessible Web Chat Interface
• Valentyn Melnyk

• Capti-Speak: A Speech-Enabled Accessible Web Interface
• Vikas Ashok

• Improving Programming Interfaces for People with Limited Mobility Using Voice Recognition
• Xiomara Figueroa Fontanez, Patricia Ordoñez

Doctoral Consortium

• Blind Drawing: Investigation into screen location tracking for computer aided interactive drawing
• Sandra Fernando

• Draw and Drag: Accessible touchscreen geometry for students who are blind
• William Grussenmeyer

• mHealth technologies for the self-management of Diabetes in the older population
• Sam Alexander

• Web searching by individuals with cognitive disabilities
• Redhwan Nour

• Using social microvolunteering to answer visual questions from blind users
• Erin Brady

• Developing a chairable computing platform to support power wheelchair users
• Patrick Carrington

• Scalable methods to collect and visualize sidewalk accessibility data for people with mobility impairments
• Kotaro Hara

• Touch-based interaction for older adults
• Afroza Sultana, Karyn Moffatt

• The use of concurrent speech to enhance blind people’s scanning for relevant information
• João Guerreiro

Travel Scholars

• Educational Content Creation and Sharing by Low-Income Visually Impaired
• Aditya Vashistha (University of Washington)

• Knowledge production in online fan fiction communities: Disability Representation and Accessibility
• Catherine Duchastel de Montrouge (Science and Technology Studies, and GaMay Lab, York University)

• Where's My Bus Stop? Supporting Independence of Blind Transit Riders with StopInfo
• Cynthia L. Bennett (University of Washington)

• Statistics for All
• Vincent Martin (Georgia Tech, Walker Sonification Lab)

Poster and Demo Session 2 (Tuesday, October 21nd, 16:30 - 18:00)

Posters 2

• Visually Impaired Orientation Techniques in Unfamiliar Indoor Environments: A User Study
• Abdulrhman Alkhanifer and Stephanie Ludi

• An Accessible Robotics Programming Environment for Visually Impaired Users
• Stephanie Ludi, Lindsey Ellils and Scott Jordan

• Enhancing Multi-Touch Table Accessibility for Wheelchair Users
• Chris Creed and Russell Beale

• A Braille Writing Training Device with Voice Feedback
• Fumihito Aizawa and Tetsuya Watanabe

• Color-via-Pattern: Distinguishing Colors of Confusion Without Affecting Perceived Brightness
• Matthew Herbst and Bo Brinkman

• Tactile Aids for Visually Impaired Graphic Design Education
• Samantha McDonald, Joshua Dutterer, Ali Abdolrahmani, Amy Hurst and Shaun Kane

• Older Adults Interaction with Broadcast Debates
• Rolando Medellin-Gasque, Chris Reed and Vicki Hanson

• Web Browsing Interface for People with Severe Speech and Motor Impairment in India
• Tirthankar Dasgupta and Manjira Sinha

• Gestures with Speech for Hand-Impaired Persons
• Darren Guinness, G. Michael Poor and Alvin Jude

• Tracking Mental Engagement: A Tool for Young People with ADD and ADHD
• Bobby Beaton, Ryan Merkel, Jayanth Prathipati, Andrew Weckstein and Scott McCrickard

• Making Turk Work: Evaluating the Accessibility of Crowdsourcing Tasks
• Rocio Calvo, Shaun K. Kane and Amy Hurst

• Designing exergames combining the use of fine and gross motor exercises to support self-care activities
• Karina Caro, Ana I. Martínez-García, Mónica Tentori and Iván Zavala-Ibarra

• Pilot evaluation of a path-guided indoor navigation system for visually impaired in a public museum
• Dhruv Jain

Demos 2

• New Tools for Automating Tactile Geographic Map Translation
• Nizar Bouhlel and Anis Rojbi

• Evaluation of Non-Visual Panning operations using Touch-Screen Devices
• Hari Prasath Palani and Nicholas Giudice

• A Google Glass App to Help the Blind with Small Talk
• M. Iftekhar Tanveer and Mohammed Ehsan Hoque

• An Immersive Physical Therapy Game for Stroke Survivors
• Conor Kaminer, Kevin LeBras, Jordan McCall, Tan Phan, Paul Naud, Mircea Teodorescu and Sri Kurniawan

• littleBits go LARGE: Making Electronics More Accessible to People with Learning Disabilities
• Nic Hollinworth, Faustina Hwang, Kate Allen, Gosia Kwiatkowska and Andy Minnion

• Building Keyboard Accessible Drag and Drop
• Rucha Somani, Bijay Bhaskar Deo, Jiahang Xin and Yun Huang

• OS-Level Surface Haptics for Touch-Screen Accessibility
• Suhong Jin, Joe Mullenbach, Craig Shultz, J. Edward Colgate and Anne Marie Piper

• Immersive Simulation of Visual Impairments Using a Wearable See-through Display
• Cagri Ates, Alexander Fiannaca and Eelke Folmer

• Tactile Graphics with a Voice Demonstration
• Catherine M. Baker, Lauren R. Milne, Jeffrey Scofield, Cynthia L. Bennett and Richard E. Ladner

• Legion Scribe: Real-Time Captioning by Non-Experts
• Walter Lasecki, Raja Kushalnagar and Jeffrey Bigham

Text-Entry Challenge 2

• Phoneme-based Predictive Text Entry Interface
• Ha Trinh, Annalu Waller, Keith Vertanen, Per Ola Kristensson and Vicki L. Hanson

• Text Entry via Discrete and Analog Myoelectric Signals
• Adam Sporka, Antonin Posusta, Ondrej Polacek, Tomas Flek and Jakub Otahal

• DigitCHAT: Enabling AAC Input at Conversational Speed
• Karl Wiegand and Rupal Patel

• Text-Entry Using a Compact Keypad with OSDS
• Torsten Felzer and Stephan Rinderknecht

• Explorations on Breathing Based Text Input for Mobile Devices
• Jackson Feijo Filho, Thiago Valle and Wilson Prata