Brian A. Smith

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Challenges in Synchronous & Remote Collaboration Around Visualization

We characterize 16 challenges faced by those investigating and developing remote and synchronous collaborative experiences around visualization. Our work reflects the perspectives and prior research efforts of an international group of 29 experts from across human-computer interaction and visualization sub-communities…

CHI '25CorrespondingVisual Impairment Technologies (Screen Readers, Tactile Graphics, Braille)

"It Brought Me Joy": Opportunities for Spatial Browsing in Desktop Screen Readers

Blind or low-vision (BLV) screen-reader users have a significantly limited experience interacting with desktop websites compared to non-BLV, i.e., sighted users. This digital divide is exacerbated by the incapability to browse the web spatially—an affordance that leverages spatial reasoning, which sighted users often…

UIST '24CorrespondingV2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) Communication Design +1

StreetNav: Leveraging Street Cameras to Support Precise Outdoor Navigation for Blind Pedestrians

Blind and low-vision (BLV) people rely on GPS-based systems for outdoor navigation. GPS's inaccuracy, however, causes them to veer off track, run into obstacles, and struggle to reach precise destinations. While prior work has made precise navigation possible indoors via hardware installations, enabling this outdoors…

CSCW '235th+ AuthorSocial Connections

Social Wormholes: Exploring Preferences and Opportunities for Distributed and Physically-Grounded Social Connections

Ubiquitous computing encapsulates the idea for technology to be interwoven into the fabric of everyday life. As computing blends into everyday physical artifacts, powerful opportunities open up for social connection. Prior connected media objects span a broad spectrum of design combinations. Such diversity suggests th…

CHI '23CorrespondingVisual Impairment Technologies (Screen Readers, Tactile Graphics, Braille)

ImageAssist: Tools for Enhancing Touchscreen-Based Image Exploration Systems for Blind and Low Vision Users

Blind and low vision (BLV) users often rely on alt text to understand what a digital image is showing. However, recent research has investigated how touch-based image exploration on touchscreens can supplement alt text. Touchscreen-based image exploration systems allow BLV users to deeply understand images while grant…

CHI '234th AuthorIdentity & Avatars in XR +2

Towards Inclusive Avatars: Disability Representation in Avatar Platforms

Digital avatars are an important part of identity representation, but there is little work on understanding how to represent disability. We interviewed 18 people with disabilities and related identities about their experiences and preferences in representing their identities with avatars. Participants generally prefer…

CHI '235th+ AuthorAR Navigation & Context Awareness +1

Supporting Piggybacked Co-Located Leisure Activities via Augmented Reality

Technology, especially the smartphone, is villainized for taking meaning and time away from in-person interactions and secluding people into "digital bubbles''. We believe this is not an intrinsic property of digital gadgets, but evidence of a lack of imagination in technology design. Leveraging augmented reality (AR)…

CSCW '222nd AuthorOnline and Offline Relationships; Online and Offline Relationships

Friendscope: Exploring In-the-Moment Experience Sharing on Camera Glasses via a Shared Camera

We introduce Friendscope, an instant, in-the-moment experience sharing system for lightweight commercial camera glasses. Friendscope explores a new concept called a shared camera. This concept allows a wearer to share control of their camera with a remote friend, making it possible for both people to capture photos/vi…

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