Shaomei Wu

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Disability-First AI Dataset Annotation: Co-designing Stuttered Speech Annotation Guidelines with People Who Stutter

Despite efforts to increase the representation of disabled people in AI datasets, accessibility datasets are often annotated by crowdworkers without disability-specific expertise, leading to inconsistent or inaccurate labels. This paper examines these annotation challenges through a case study of annotating speech dat…

CSCW '24CorrespondingSession 1e: Empowering Data Work

"I Want to Publicize My Stutter'': Community-led Collection and Curation of Chinese Stuttered Speech Data

This paper documents the process undertaken by StammerTalk, a grassroots community of Chinese-speaking people who stutter, to autonomously collect and curate stuttered speech data for more inclusive speech AI models. While people with disabilities are often excluded or treated merely as the subjects of AI data collect…

DIS '242nd AuthorHonorable MentionUniversal & Inclusive Design +1

Re-envisioning Remote Meetings: Co-designing Inclusive and Empowering Videoconferencing with People Who Stutter

Videoconferencing (VC) has become a prominent and normalized mode of professional and personal communication, introducing universally experienced challenges such as reduced non-verbal cues and "Zoom Fatigue." But People who stutter (PWS) encounter these obstacles with extra hurdles as existing VC technologies often re…

CHI '241st AuthorVoice Accessibility +2

Finding My Voice over Zoom: An Autoethnography of Videoconferencing Experience for a Person Who Stutters

Existing videoconferencing (VC) technologies are often optimized for productivity and efficiency, with little support for the "soft side" of VC meetings such as empathy, authenticity, belonging, and emotional connections. This paper presents findings from a 15-month long autoethnographic study of VC experiences by the…

CHI '23CorrespondingVoice Accessibility +2

"The World is Designed for Fluent People": Benefits and Challenges of Videoconferencing Technologies for People Who Stutter

This work studies the experiences of people who stutter (PWS) with videoconferencing (VC) and VC technologies. Our interview study with 13 adults who stutter uncovers extra challenges introduced by current VC platforms to people who stutter. While some of the challenges are a direct result of the characteristics of st…

CHI '191st AuthorConversational Chatbots +1

Design and Evaluation of a Social Media Writing Support Tool for People with Dyslexia

People with dyslexia face challenges expressing themselves in writing on social networking sites (SNSs). Such challenges come from not only the technicality of writing, but also the self-representation aspect of sharing and communicating publicly on social networking sites such as Facebook. To empower people with dysl…

CHI '182nd AuthorVisual Impairment Technologies (Screen Readers, Tactile Graphics, Braille)

A Face Recognition Application for People with Visual Impairments: Understanding Use Beyond the Lab

Recognizing others is a major challenge for people with visual impairments (VIPs) and can hinder engagement in social activities. We present Accessibility Bot, a research prototype bot on Facebook Messenger, that leverages state-of-the-art computer vision and a user’s friends’ tagged photos on Facebook to help people…

CSCW '182nd AuthorSharing and Collaboration

The Effect of Computer-Generated Descriptions on Photo-Sharing Experiences of People with Visual Impairments

Like sighted people, visually impaired people want to share photographs on social networking services, but find it difficult to identify and select photos from their albums. We aimed to address this problem by incorporating state-of-the-art computer-generated descriptions into Facebook’s photo-sharing feature. We inte…

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