John Tang

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FamilyDittos: Reimagining Intergenerational Interaction through Mimetic Agents

Technology-mediated communication tools are widely used to maintain connections between older adults and their remote family members. However, challenges often arise due to differences in their life rhythms and communication preferences, such as time zones, daily routines, or preferred platforms. To address these chal…

CHI '255th+ AuthorMental Health Apps & Online Support Communities +1

"I use video calling in all areas of my life": Understanding the Video Calling Experiences of Chronically Ill People

Since the Covid-19 pandemic, video calling (VC) has become a staple means of daily communication. Beyond socializing, VC in the United States (U.S.) now supports remote work, healthcare and education. The sudden ubiquity of VC could have presented both advantages and challenges for chronically ill people. However, our…

CSCW '245th+ AuthorSession 2f: Asymmetry, Collaboration, and Inclusivity in Hybrid Setting

Hybridge: Bridging Spatiality for Inclusive and Equitable Hybrid Meetings

Hybrid meetings limit inclusion for remote participants. The Hybridge experimental system provides different interfaces for remote and room endpoints, focusing on improving inclusion via shared spatiality and remote agency. In-room users see remotes on displays around a table, and remotes see video integrated into a d…

CSCW '242nd AuthorSession 2f: Asymmetry, Collaboration, and Inclusivity in Hybrid Setting

Dittos: Personalized, Embodied Agents That Participate in Meetings When You Are Unavailable

Imagine being able to send a personalized embodied agent to meetings you are unable to attend. This paper explores the idea of a Ditto — an agent that visually resembles a person, sounds like them, possesses knowledge about them, and can represent them in meetings. This paper reports on results from two empirical inve…

CSCW '231st AuthorFuture of Work

Perspectives: Creating Inclusive and Equitable Hybrid Meeting Experiences

With the shift to hybrid meetings in work spaces, there is an increasing need to create a more inclusive hybrid meeting experience where people meeting together in a room interact with those joining remotely. This paper describes a design exploration, implementation, and evaluation of Perspectives, a novel hybrid meet…

CHI '232nd AuthorVisual Impairment Technologies (Screen Readers, Tactile Graphics, Braille) +1

Accessibility of Profile Pictures: Alt Text and Beyond to Express Identity Online

Profile pictures can convey rich social signals that are often inaccessible to blind and low vision screen reader users. Although there have been efforts to understand screen reader users’ preferences for alternative (alt) text descriptions when encountering images online, profile pictures evoke distinct information n…

CHI '233rd AuthorVoice User Interface (VUI) Design +1

Spatialized Audio and Hybrid Video Conferencing: Where Should Voices be Positioned for People in the Room and Remote Headset Users?

Hybrid video calls include attendees in a conference room with loudspeakers and remote attendees using headsets, each with dif- ferent options for rendering sound spatially. Two studies explored the listener experience with spatial audio in video calls. One study examined the in-room experience using loudspeakers,…

CHI '232nd AuthorUniversal & Inclusive Design +1

Accessibility Barriers, Conflicts and Repairs: Understanding the Experience of Professionals with Disabilities in Hybrid Meetings

Workplaces around the globe are beginning to rapidly adopt hybrid meetings to conduct, plan, and organize their work. While previous literature explores the benefits and drawbacks of hybrid meetings, the experiences of professionals with disabilities are largely missing. With an orientation towards an accessible futur…

CSCW '21CorrespondingAccessibility and Assistive Technologies

Understanding the Telework Experience of People with Disabilities

To understand the lived experience of how people with disabilities telework, 25 people were interviewed. The participants included people who are blind or low vision, deaf or hard of hearing, neurodiverse, have limited mobility/dexterity, and have chronic health issues. The interviews focused on how they used video ca…

CSCW '212nd AuthorBest PaperAccessibility and Assistive Technologies

Towards Accessible Remote Work: Understanding Work-from-Home Practices of Neurodivergent Professionals

Working from home has become a mainstream work practice in many organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic. While remote work has received much scholarly and public attention over the years, we still know little about how people with disabilities engage in remote work from their homes and what access means in this con…

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