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 ...

For geographically dispersed communities, including professional, academic, hobbyist, and fandom communities, in-person events and meetups play a crucial role in the function and health of the whole community. Building off prior literature, we take a ...

Video-sharing platforms offer a unique avenue for people with disabilities (PWDs) to highlight their experiences, including the challenges and accessibility barriers they face. While creators with disabilities effectively use these platforms to share ...

Generative AI (GAI) is proliferating, and among its many applications are to support creative work (e.g., generating text, images, music) and to enhance accessibility (e.g., captions of images and audio). As GAI evolves, creatives must consider how (or ...

Empathy-building, the first stage in human-centered design, often involves methods that inadvertently reinforce negative stereotypes and biases toward disabled communities. In this work, we introduce a new method: Disability-Related Empathy from Existing ...

Context: People with Disabilities (PWD) have seen the software development market as an alternative for overcoming some of the inclusion barriers they face in society. A career in software development presents itself as an opportunity for dignified and ...

Mobile games occupy more market share than PC and console titles combined, while the designers responsible for delighting billions with their app store offerings remain relatively overlooked by avid players and academic researchers alike. Marginalized ...

This paper critically examines the persistent inequities between the rapid development of GenAI technologies and the accessibility needs of people with disabilities in a professional setting. We draw our criticism from the literature and accounts of ...

Autism research is primarily targeted toward children and at normalizing autistic traits. We conducted a literature review of computing research on adult autism, focusing on identifying research priorities set by autistic adults and their allies, ...

Telepresence robots, designed to bridge physical distances, have unique capabilities and inherent limitations when deployed in classroom environments. This study examines these aspects, focusing on how telepresence robots facilitate or hinder classroom ...

In many developing countries, access to Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) is limited to pictographic symbols designed to reflect languages and cultures other than that of the locality. Simple, functional communication is available, ...

We present an exploratory, in-the-wild study in which a small hobby drone and a game controller were freely used by five people in their domestic environments, indoors and outdoors. All participants had motor disabilities affecting their arms and hands, ...

Since the adoption of the Web Accessibility Directive (WAD, 2016) customer feedback and complaint management have also become relevant for public sector bodies in the European Union in terms of digital accessibility, because it requires the ...

This project aims to bring disabled perspectives into discussions about embodied co-creation in human-computer interaction (HCI). Everyone, from children to professional artists, learn and express themselves through creatively collaborating with others. ...

Despite the interest in equity, little research has considered students with disabilities in PreK-12 computer science education. The 2022 Computer Science Teachers Association and Kapor Center facilitated Landscape Survey of PreK-12 CS Teachers, which ...

People with disabilities experience high levels of social discrimination worldwide. But, these harms are more pronounced in the Global South due to the intense stigma around disability and its intersections with structural embeddings of patriarchy. The ...

Correcting the under-representation of people with disabilities in computing and computing-related careers will require a research base that enables equitable computing education (CE) for all students. For this study, we analyzed research papers in order ...

As our community seeks to make Computer Science education more accessible amidst a global mental health crisis and with many students living with chronic illnesses and other medical conditions, it becomes more and more urgent to address student health ...

For computing to serve humanity, all individuals must be able to feel safe within computing. While prior work has surfaced how hegemonic racial and gendered expectations manifest in computing, neurodivergent identities have received far less attention. ...

Students with disabilities face a variety of challenges in computer science education including those related to stigma around disability, inaccessible curriculum, instruction and tools, disability disclosure, and a lack of mentors. In addition, few ...