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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…

Teerapaun Tanprasert et al.University of British Columbia

Connecting Families

"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…

Humphrey Curtis et al.King's College London

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…

Payod Panda et al.Microsoft

Session 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…

Joanne Leong et al.

Microsoft

Session 2f: Asymmetry, Collaboration, and Inclusivity in Hybrid Setting

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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…

John Tang et al.Microsoft

Future of Work

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…

Martez E Mott et al.University Of Washington

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,…

Jeremy Hyrkas et al.Microsoft

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…

Rahaf Alharbi et al.University of Michigan

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…

John Tang Microsoft

Accessibility 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…

Maitraye Das et al.University Of Washington

Accessibility and Assistive Technologies

Accessible Video Calling: Enabling Nonvisual Perception of Visual Conversation Cues

Nonvisually Accessible Video Calling (NAVC) is a prototype that detects visual conversation cues in a video call and uses audio cues to convey them to a user who is blind or low-vision. NAVC uses audio cues inspired by movie soundtracks to convey Attention, Agreement, Disagreement, Happiness, Thinking, and Surprise. W…

Lei Shi et al.Cornell University

Accessibility and assistive technologies

Managing Stress: The Needs of Autistic Adults in Video Calling

Video calling (VC) aims to create multi-modal, collaborative environments that are "just like being there." However, we found that autistic individuals, who exhibit atypical social and cognitive processing, may not share this goal. We interviewed autistic adults about their perceptions of VC compared to other computer…

Annuska Zolyomi et al.University Of Washington

Connecting and Reaching Out

Crowdcasting: Remotely Participating in Live Events Through Multiple Live Streams

We designed and developed a “crowdcasting” prototype to enable remote people to participate in a live event through a collection of live streams coming from the event. Viewers could select from a choice of streams and interact with the streamer and other viewers through text comments and heart reactions. We deployed t…

John Tang et al.Microsoft

Chatting and Livestreaming

Paper Title	Authors	Research Topics
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…	TT Teerapaun Tanprasert et al.University of British Columbia	Connecting Families
"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…	HC Humphrey Curtis et al.King's College London
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…	PP Payod Panda et al.Microsoft	Session 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…	JL Joanne Leong et al.Microsoft	Session 2f: Asymmetry, Collaboration, and Inclusivity in Hybrid Setting
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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…	JT John Tang et al.Microsoft	Future of Work
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…	MM Martez E Mott et al.University Of Washington
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,…	JH Jeremy Hyrkas et al.Microsoft
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…	RA Rahaf Alharbi et al.University of Michigan
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…	JT John Tang Microsoft	Accessibility and Assistive Technologies
emoji_events 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…	MD Maitraye Das et al.University Of Washington	Accessibility and Assistive Technologies
Accessible Video Calling: Enabling Nonvisual Perception of Visual Conversation Cues Nonvisually Accessible Video Calling (NAVC) is a prototype that detects visual conversation cues in a video call and uses audio cues to convey them to a user who is blind or low-vision. NAVC uses audio cues inspired by movie soundtracks to convey Attention, Agreement, Disagreement, Happiness, Thinking, and Surprise. W…	LS Lei Shi et al.Cornell University	Accessibility and assistive technologies
emoji_events Managing Stress: The Needs of Autistic Adults in Video Calling Video calling (VC) aims to create multi-modal, collaborative environments that are "just like being there." However, we found that autistic individuals, who exhibit atypical social and cognitive processing, may not share this goal. We interviewed autistic adults about their perceptions of VC compared to other computer…	AZ Annuska Zolyomi et al.University Of Washington	Connecting and Reaching Out
Crowdcasting: Remotely Participating in Live Events Through Multiple Live Streams We designed and developed a “crowdcasting” prototype to enable remote people to participate in a live event through a collection of live streams coming from the event. Viewers could select from a choice of streams and interact with the streamer and other viewers through text comments and heart reactions. We deployed t…	JT John Tang et al.Microsoft	Chatting and Livestreaming