Assistant Professor @Columbia, Director @ Computer-Enabled Abilities Laboratory (CEAL). I work in HCI, accessibility, games, and AR.
New York, USA
Joined December 2018
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My racing auditory display (RAD) for blind gamers will be in @ForzaMotorsport! To think that my PhD research is now in a AAA game! 🤩
Original project: ceal.cs.columbia.edu/rad/
I’m doing more @Columbia @CUSEAS too! I’d love to collab & chat about blind games research! DM me!
We strive to make life more fun for billions of people around the world by creating gaming experiences that everyone can enjoy. Great to put this commitment into action with the most accessible @ForzaMotorsport ever.
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I’m recruiting 2~3 funded PhD students for Fall 2027 to join the Symbiotic Interfaces Lab at UT Austin CS (@UTCompSci)!
Check out our research:
symbiotic-interfaces.cs.utex…
Apply by Dec 15, mentioning my name:
cs.utexas.edu/graduate/apply
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Would love to have an audience. If near Stanford, join us in the Gates 1A wing.
📢Please join in for our first Awards Talk this coming Friday by @landay, 2024 Lifetime Research Award recipient. You can find the Zoom details on our website: sigchi.org/events/sigchi-lif…
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Friends! Please help spread the word! @YuhangZhao1 and I are looking for REU students this coming summer to work on disability representation via avatars in social VR @WisconsinCS and @VT_CS. Details yaxingyao.com/document/reu_v… Plz reach out soon!
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A now freely-available preprint version of Chapter 1 of "Bayesian Methods for Interaction and Design" (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Covers applications of Bayesian models in HCI, including for design, in-loop interaction and evaluation. johnhw.github.io/bayesian_in…
The Columbia CS department is hiring in all areas of CS this year, for multiple tenure-track and lecturer positions. Please apply if you are interested! 🗽🏙️
cs.columbia.edu/open-positio…
The Computer Science Department at Columbia, @ColumbiaCompSci, has multiple tenure track (and lecturer) positions open. Please apply and join us in a fast-growing department in the best city in the world!
cs.columbia.edu/open-positio…
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I'm happy to share and discuss two papers at #CSCW2023.
"I Want to Figure Things Out" today at Accessibility session.
"Social Wormholes" on Wed 9am at Social Connections session.
🌟I'm also actively contemplating PhD opportunities, and would love to learn more from professors!
ALT The first-page screenshot of paper titled "Social Wormholes: Exploring Preferences and Opportunities for Distributed and Physically-Grounded Social Connections"
ALT The first-page screenshot of paper titled "'I Want to Figure Things Out': Supporting Exploration in Navigation for People with Visual Impairments"
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All materials from our full-day #CHI2023 Course "Cognitive Modeling: From GOMS to Deep Reinforcement Learning" available here: github.com/howesa/CHI22-CogM…
Slides and Colab/ipynb notebooks. Feel free how you see best. All feedback welcome!
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I’ve seen a lot of exciting work in VR at #CHI2023 and I take the chance to share our #ieeevr2023 paper on audio feedback in VR for blind people. It’s often an afterthought, but a well thought (from the start) audio design can ensure blind people are included in VR experiences.
Very happy to present our work "The Design Space of the Auditory Representation of Objects and Their Behaviours in Virtual Reality for Blind People" at #ieeevr2023, where we then explored the design space in a VR Boxing scenario. More details at: techandpeople.github.io/down…
My lab is developing tools for making all game genres accessible to blind gamers.
Racing games were an important first step, but we are now tackling 3D adventure games and much more. NavStick lets blind players look around & explore 3D game worlds:
ceal.cs.columbia.edu/navstic…
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Our paper on blind accessible explorative navigation is now available on CSCW. doi.org/10.1145/3579496 We highlight spatial information for BLV people to learn an environment and the importance of in-situ social collaboration. @BrianHCI @GauravJain_13 #cscw #hci #accessibility
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I’m excited to share our CHI paper about disability representation in avatar platforms! tinyurl.com/avatars-with-dis… Please check out our presentation at CHI. Thanks wonderful to my collaborators @RaichuHsu @andresmh @BrianHCI and @fanniefliu
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I am hiring research interns for 2023! If you or you know any student with experience with large language models (CLIP or others) and video understanding for authoring, send them my way! Happy to talk to you/them to see if it's a good fit!
Please retweet to spread the word!
Exciting funding opportunity for teams to explore how AR💫 and drones🛸 can help people capture and relive memories. Teams can get @spectacles and @snappixy and will get close mentorship from @Snap organizers including me! Deadline is July 31. Let's imagine the future together!
Calling academic researchers around the world to reimagine the future of reliving memories in AR. A total of $100K will be divided among selected teams plus access to Spectacles AR glasses and the new Pixy flying camera. Apply by 31st July! DM me with Qs. snapcreativechallenge.com/20…
This is our third Snap Creative Challenge, and we have learned so much together with teams in the past. Here is a recap of projects and takeaways from last year's Creative Challenge, which focused on "The Future of Co-located Social AR: snapcreativechallenge.com/20…
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Some days I think Rocco is really a Melville scholar who does computer science theory just to pay the bills.
Here are some slides by Rocco Servedio from our mentoring workshop at COLT 2021. let-all.com/assets/slides/Ho…
Paid undergrad summer research opportunity at @Cornell_Tech and @Columbia in 🏙️NYC to work on 🧑🦯accessible AR/VR! Prior experience not required — we'll train you! Diversity in background & current school strongly encouraged. DM w/ Q's! Friends: please RT! xraccess.org/reu/
Are you an undergraduate student interested in XR accessibility research? @shiriazenkot and @BrianHCI are hosting a summer REU program at @cornell_tech & @Columbia, and they'd like to hear from you! Learn more and apply by 3/15 here: xraccess.org/reu/
I am leading this with @shiriazenkot from @Cornell_Tech and Steve Feiner from @Columbia. It is so rewarding because we get to design the future of accessible AR/VR *and* we get to help students get started in research. Here's what we worked on last summer: ceal.cs.columbia.edu/minimap…