Xinru Tang

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Access in the Shadow of Ableism: A Collaborative Autoethnography on Higher Education Experiences of a Blind Student in China

The HCI research community has witnessed a growing body of research on accessibility and disability driven by efforts to improve access. Yet, the concept of access reveals its limitations when examined within broader ableist structures. Drawing on an autoethnographic method, this study shares the co-first author Zhang…

CHI '261st AuthorExplainable AI (XAI) +3

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…

CHI '261st AuthorHonorable MentionDeaf & Hard-of-Hearing Support (Captions, Sign Language, Vibration) +2

Reimagining Sign Language Technologies: Analyzing Translation Work of Chinese Deaf Online Content Creators

While sign language translation systems promise to enhance deaf people's access to information and communication, they have been met with strong skepticism from deaf communities due to risks of misrepresenting and oversimplifying the richness of signed communication in technologies. This article provides empirical evi…

CHI '262nd AuthorHonorable MentionExplainable AI (XAI) +3

"It's trained by non-disabled people": Evaluating How Image Quality Affects Product Captioning with Vision-Language Models

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly used by blind and low-vision (BLV) people to identify and understand products in their everyday lives, such as food, personal care items, and household goods. Despite their prevalence, we lack an empirical understanding of how common image quality issues — such as blur, m…

CSCW '251st AuthorCore Concepts in Privacy Research

Beyond "Vulnerable Populations": A Unified Understanding of Vulnerability From A Socio-Ecological Perspective

HCI and CSCW research has witnessed increasing efforts to address diversity and inclusion in research and design practice, as evidenced by the growing body of research with populations deemed as vulnerable, marginalized, or underserved. However, this work has been largely limited to a population-specific approach, i.e…

CSCW '232nd AuthorSocial Support II

Understanding Extrafamilial Intergenerational Communication: A Case Analysis of an Age-Integrated Online Community

In today’s society, the relationship between younger and older generations is increasingly characterized by tension and conflict, with each generation holding deep-seated biases and stereotypes against each other. Fostering meaningful communication among generations is one way to avoid age segregation and dismantle as…

CHI '231st AuthorDeaf & Hard-of-Hearing Support (Captions, Sign Language, Vibration) +2

Community-Driven Information Accessibility: Online Sign Language Content Creation within d/Deaf Communities

Information access is one of the most significant challenges faced by d/Deaf signers due to a lack of sign language information. As machine-driven solutions face challenges, we seek to understand how d/Deaf communities can create, share, and support the growth of sign language content. Based on interviews with 12 d/De…

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