Vaishnav Kameswaran

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Surveilling Suitability: How AI Hiring Interviews Impact Job Seekers with Disabilities

AI hiring interviews, asynchronous video recording platforms that use AI to assess candidate suitability, are increasingly used by employers to streamline hiring processes. These platforms often promise to standardize assessments and mitigate subjective biases in hiring decisions. Yet, little is known about how these…

CSCW '231st AuthorAccessibility

Advocacy as Access Work: How People with Visual Impairments Gain Access to Digital Banking in India

Research in accessibility and assistive technology often assumes that technology is within easy reach, that is, people with disabilities are able to obtain technologies so long as they are accessible. As a result, less is understood about the challenges that people with disabilities face in obtaining technology in the…

CHI '223rd AuthorTeleoperated Driving +2

Trust, Reciprocity, and the Role of Timebanks as Intermediaries: Design Implications for Addressing Healthcare Transportation Barriers

Millions of Americans forego medical care due to a lack of non-emergency transportation, particularly minorities, older adults, and those who have disabilities or chronic conditions. Our study investigates the potential for using timebanks---community-based voluntary services that encourage exchanges of services for `…

CSCW '212nd AuthorAccessibility and Assistive Technologies

Understanding Accessibility and Collaboration in Programming for People with Visual Impairments

There has been a growing interest in CSCW and HCI to understand the experiences of programmers in the workplace. However, the large majority of these studies have focused on sighted programmers and as a result, the experiences of programmers with visual impairments in professional contexts remain understudied. We addr…

CHI '215th+ AuthorPublic Transit & Trip Planning +2

Examining Mobility Among People Living with HIV in Rural Areas

The rise of ridesharing platforms has transformed traditional transportation, making it more accessible for getting to work and accessing grocery stores and healthcare providers, which are essential to physical and mental well-being. However, such technologies are not available everywhere. Additionally, there is a sca…

CHI '19CorrespondingTeleoperated Driving +1

Understanding Trust, Transportation, and Accessibility through Ridesharing

Relatively few studies of accessibility and transportation for people with vision impairments have investigated forms of transportation besides public transportation and walking. To develop a more nuanced understanding of this context, we turn to ridesharing, an increasingly used mode of transportation. We interviewed…

CSCW '191st AuthorMoney

Cash, Digital Payments and Accessibility: A case study from metropolitan India

Despite the growing interest in digitization and money in HCI and CSCW, the use of cash and digital payments by people with disabilities has received scant attention. We present findings from a qualitative study of people with visual impairments' use of cash and digital payments in metropolitan India. Using ride-haili…

CHI '181st AuthorTeleoperated Driving +1

Support for Social and Cultural Capital Development in Real-time Ridesharing Services

Today's transportation systems and technologies have the potential to transform the ways individuals acquire resources from their social networks and environments. However, it is unclear what types of resources can be acquired and how technology could support these efforts. We address this gap by investigating these q…

CSCW '181st AuthorSharing Economy

We can go anywhere': Understanding independence through a case study of ride-hailing use by people with visual impairments in metropolitan India

Ride-hailing services have received attention as part of the growing work around the sharing economy, but the focus of these studies has largely been on drivers. In this paper, we examine how ride-hailing is transforming the transportation practices of one group of passengers - people with visual impairments in metrop…

CHI '182nd AuthorHonorable MentionEmpowerment of Marginalized Groups +1

Entrepreneurship and the Socio-Technical Chasm in a Lean Economy

Online technologies are increasingly hailed as enablers of entrepreneurship and income generation. Recent evidence suggests, however, that even the best such tools disproportionately favor those with pre-existing entrepreneurial advantages. Despite intentions, the technology on its own seems far from addressing socio-…

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