Publications

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SMART-TBI: Design and Evaluation of the Social Media Accessibility and Rehabilitation Toolkit for Users with Traumatic Brain Injury

Published in ASSETS 2024, 2024

To improve access to and use of social media for users with TBI, we introduce the Social Media Accessibility and Rehabilitation Toolkit SMART-TBI. The toolkit includes five aids (Writing Aid, Interpretation Aid, Filter Mode, Focus Mode, and Facebook Customization) designed to address the cognitive and communicative needs of individuals with TBI. We asked eight users with moderate-severe TBI and five TBI rehabilitation experts to evaluate each aid.

Recommended citation: Hu, Yaxin, et al. "SMART-TBI: Design and Evaluation of the Social Media Accessibility and Rehabilitation Toolkit for Users with Traumatic Brain Injury." arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.09683 (2024). https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.09683

``It Is Easy Using My Apps:’’ Understanding Technology Use and Needs of Adults with Down Syndrome

Published in CHI 2024, 2024

In this work, we interviewed six adults with DS, seven parents of adults with DS, and three experts in speech-language pathology, special education, and occupational therapy to determine how technology could support adults with DS.

Recommended citation: Johnson, Hailey Lynn, Audra Sterling, and Bilge Mutlu. "" It Is Easy Using My Apps:" Understanding Technology Use and Needs of Adults with Down Syndrome." Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642950

Investigating Day-to-day Experiences with Conversational Agents by Users with Traumatic Brain Injury

Published in Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2023

In this study, we gave nine adults with TBI an at-home conversation agent for four weeks to investigate use patterns, challenges, and design requirements, focusing particularly on injury-related use.

Recommended citation: Hu, Yaxin, et al. "Investigating Day-to-day Experiences with Conversational Agents by Users with Traumatic Brain Injury." Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. 2023. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3597638.3608385