October 26, 2020 October 28, 2020

Microsoft at ASSETS 2020

Location: Virtual/Online

Website: ASSETS 2020 (opens in new tab)

Microsoft is proud to be a gold sponsor of the 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. See more details on our contributions below.

Program Committee members

Danielle Bragg
Ed Cutrell
Cecily Morrison
Martez Mott

Doctoral Symposium Faculty panelist

Meredith Ringel Morris

 

Tuesday, October 27

16:00 – 17:00 | Paper Session 6: Navigating Open Roads & Spaces
Understanding In-Situ Use of Commonly Available Navigation Technologies by People with Visual Impairments
Vaishnav Kameswaran, Alexander J. Fiannaca, Melanie Kneisel, Amy Karlson, Edward Cutrell, Meredith Ringel Morris

Wednesday, October 28

9:00 – 10:00 | Paper Session 7: Privacy & Other Considerations for AI-Based Accessibility
Privacy Considerations of the Visually Impaired with Camera Based Assistive Technologies: Misrepresentation, Impropriety, and Fairness
Taslima Akter, Tousif Ahmed, Apu Kapadia, Manohar Swaminathan

9:00 – 10:00 | Paper Session 7: Privacy & Other Considerations for AI-Based Accessibility
Exploring Collection of Sign Language Datasets: Privacy, Participation, and Model Performance
Danielle Bragg, Oscar Koller, Naomi Caselli, William Thies

14:00 – 15:15 | Paper Session 9: Understanding Access Barriers
*Best Paper Nominee
Sense and Accessibility: Understanding People with Physical Disabilities’ Experiences with Sensing Systems
Shaun Kane, Anhong Guo, Meredith Ringel Morris

14:00 – 15:15 | Paper Session 9: Understanding Access Barriers
“I just went into it assuming that I wouldn’t be able to have the full experience”: Understanding the Accessibility of Virtual Reality for People with Limited Mobility
Martez MottJohn Tang, Shaun Kane, Edward Cutrell, Meredith Ringel Morris

15:30 – 16:45 | Paper Session 10: Design Matters
Lessons Learned in Designing AI for Autistic Adults: Designing the Video Calling for Autism Prototype
Andrew Begel, John Tang, Sean Andrist, Michael Barnett, Tony CarbaryPiali Choudhury, Edward Cutrell, Alberto Fung, Sasa Junuzovic, Daniel McDuff, Kael Rowan, Shibashankar Sahoo, Jennifer Frances Waldern (opens in new tab), Jessica Wolk, Hui Zheng, Annuska Zolyomi

15:30 – 16:45 | Paper Session 10: Design Matters
Chat in the Hat: A Portable Interpreter for Sign Language Users
Larwan Berke, William Thies, Danielle Bragg