Yapeng Tian

schoolUniversity of Texas at Dallasbar_chart#1615 Global Rank

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#1615

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Touch with Meaning: A Contextual Analysis of Social Touch

Social touch is a rich channel of human communication, conveying emotion, intent, and meaning embedded in context. Yet most HCI studies treat touch in isolation, overlooking the layered subtleties that shape interpretation. We present a contextual analysis of 5,016 social touch events, grounded in a large collection o…

UIST '255th+ AuthorConversational Chatbots +2

AROMA: Mixed-Initiative AI Assistance for Non-Visual Cooking by Grounding Multimodal Information Between Reality and Videos

Videos offer rich audiovisual information that can support people in performing activities of daily living (ADLs), but they remain largely inaccessible to blind or low-vision (BLV) individuals. In cooking, BLV people often rely on non-visual cues---such as touch, taste, and smell---to navigate their environment, makin…

UIST '255th+ AuthorSocial & Collaborative VR +2

VRSight: An AI-Driven Scene Description System to Improve Virtual Reality Accessibility for Blind People

Virtual Reality (VR) is inaccessible to blind people. While research has investigated many techniques to enhance VR accessibility, they require additional developer effort to integrate. As such, most mainstream VR apps remain inaccessible as the industry de-prioritizes accessibility. We present VRSight, an end-to-end…

UIST '245th+ AuthorAR Navigation & Context Awareness +2

CookAR: Affordance Augmentations in Wearable AR to Support Kitchen Tool Interactions for People with Low Vision

Cooking is a central activity of daily living, supporting independence as well as mental and physical health. However, prior work has highlighted key barriers for people with low vision (LV) to cook, particularly around safely interacting with tools, such as sharp knives or hot pans. Drawing on recent advancements in…

CC '245th+ AuthorGenerative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +2

MIMOSA: Human-AI Co-Creation of Computational Spatial Audio Effects on Videos

Spatial audio offers more immersive video consumption experiences to viewers; however, creating and editing spatial audio often expensive and requires specialized equipment and skills, posing a high barrier for amateur video creators. We present MIMOSA, a human-AI co-creation tool that enables amateur users to computa…

CHI '245th+ AuthorVisual Impairment Technologies (Screen Readers, Tactile Graphics, Braille)

SPICA: Interactive Video Content Exploration through Augmented Audio Descriptions for Blind or Low-Vision Viewers

Blind or Low-Vision (BLV) users often rely on audio descriptions (AD) to access video content. However, conventional static ADs can leave out detailed information in videos, impose a high mental load, neglect the diverse needs and preferences of BLV users, and lack immersion. To tackle these challenges, we introduce S…

UIST '234th AuthorConversational Chatbots +2

PEANUT: A Human-AI Collaborative Tool for Annotating Audio-Visual Data

Audio-visual learning seeks to enhance the computer’s multi-modal perception leveraging the correlation between the auditory and visual modalities. Despite their many useful downstream tasks, such as video retrieval, AR/VR, and accessibility, the performance and adoption of existing audio-visual models have been imped…

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