SpokeSense
A Wearable Fitness Tracker for Wheelchair Athletes
Information provided by traditional fitness trackers is not always relevant to athletes of all abilities. For example, what if you don't take steps?
Accessibility FacultyAccessibility
VizLens
VizLens: A Robust and Interactive Screen Reader for Interfaces in the Real World
The world is full of physical interfaces that are inaccessible to blind people, from microwaves and information kiosks to thermostats and checkout terminals. Blind people cannot independently use such devices without at least first learning their layout, and usually only after labeling them with sighted assistance.
Accessibility Crowd Sourcing VizLens paper (pdf) FacultyHCII at CHI 2018
Over 3,000 of the world’s top researchers, scientists, and designers are traveling to Montréal this week for CHI 2018, the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. The premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction will take place from April 21-26, 2018.
HCII Team Tests Fitness Tracker for Wheelchair Athletes at NWBT
“It’s like all of March Madness in one weekend,” said Patrick Carrington, postdoctoral research fellow at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, of the National Wheelchair Basketball Tournament (NWBT) in Louisville, Kentucky.
HCII Ph.D. Students Receive CMLH Fellowship in Digital Health
Four Human-Computer Interaction Institute Ph.D. students are recipients of the Center for Machine Learning and Health (CMLH) Fellowship in Digital Health. Incoming students Prerna Chikersal and Megan Hofmann join current Ph.D. students Qian Yang and Julian Ramos as winners of this fellowship.
Jeffrey Bigham Future Leader of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University is a place where the future is imagined and re-designed constantly. Roads with self-driving cars, rooms powered by super sensors, and computing directly on your skin are just a few version of the future conceived of by Carnegie Mellon minds. While the future of computing continues to expand, Associate Professor Jeffrey Bigham is working to ensure that the future we create is accessible for all people, not just those who can see or hear or interact with devices in a certain way.
Jennifer Mankoff Discusses 3D Printing With Forbes
3D printing has been quietly moving towards a radical revolution over the past several years. While it has already exceeded 5.1 billion, its growth has been relatively slow, and not as disruptive as some might have envisioned. Instead, 3D printing has been advancing to its quiet revolution through applications like medical technology and industrial manufacturing.
MHCI Students Finalists in ACM SIGCHI 2017 Design Competition
In any given day, how many actions or activities do you complete without pausing to think? Whether it's remembering each step to make a cup of coffee or remembering each turn on your daily commute, successfully navigating our daily routines is an accomplishment we often don't think twice about. That is, until these steps become harder to remember.
HCII Alumnus Jacob Wobbrock to Receive the SIGCHI Social Impact Award at CHI 2017
"Too often, people with disabilities have to adapt themselves to the ‘ability assumptions’ of their computing systems, but I wanted to reverse that burden by expecting more from our interactive computing systems," said Jacob O. Wobbrock, an associate professor at the University of Washington.
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