All Publications

Inspiring Blind and Low Vision High School Students and their Teachers to Access STEM in College

Isabela Figueira, Josahandi M. Cisneros, Julieta Lindo, Vinh H. Luong, Stacy M. Branham

RESPECT 2025

Honorable Mention

Creative Problem-Solving: A Study with Blind and Low Vision Software Professionals

Karina Kohl, Yoonha Cha, Victoria Jackson, Stacy M. Branham, André van der Hoek, Rafael Prikladnicki

CHASE 2025

The Dilemma of Building Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Solutions for Workplace Accessibility

Yoonha Cha, Victoria Jackson, Rafael Prikladnicki, André van der Hoek, Stacy M. Branham

CHI 2025

Honorable Mention

Dude, Where's My Luggage? An Autoethnographic Account of Airport Navigation by a Traveler with Residual Vision

Cameron T. Cassidy, Stacy M. Branham

ASSETS 2024

Intersecting Liminality: Acquiring a Smartphone as a Blind or Low Vision Older Adult

Isabela Figueira, Yoonha Cha, Stacy M. Branham

ASSETS 2024

Honorable Mention

"Malicious Pictorials:" How Alt Text Matters to Screen Reader Users’ Experience of Image-Dense Media

Alyson Yin, Riya Sogani, Bruna Oewel, Karen Phan, Jaime Shin Young Park, Mia Ashley Yeo, Lindsay Ann Yazzolino, Karen Arcos, Ali Abdolrahmani, Emily Blank, Michael Dean Gilbert, Stacy M. Branham

DIS 2024

Honorable Mention

Cuddling Up With a Print-Braille Book: How Intimacy and Access Shape Parents’ Reading Practices with Children

Cameron Cassidy, Isabela Figueira, Sohyeon Park, Jin Seo Kim, Emory J. Edwards, Stacy M. Branham

CHI 2024

“‘Do You Want Me to Participate or Not?’: Investigating the Accessibility of Software Development Meetings for Blind and Low Vision Professionals

Yoonha Cha, Isabela Figueira., Jessy Ayala, Emory J. Edwards, Joshua Garcia, André van der Hoek, Stacy M. Branham

CHI 2024

Understanding the Career Mobility of Blind and Low Vision Software Professionals

Yoonha Cha, Victoria Jackson, Isabela Figueira, Stacy Branham, André van der Hoek

CHASE 2024

Best Paper

Which AI Models Create Accurate Alt Text for Picture Books?

Quan Zhou, Nathan Samarasena, Kyle Han, Natalie López, Stacy M. Branham

CSUN 2024

“‘If I’m supposed to be the facilitator, I should be the host’: Understanding the Accessibility of Videoconferencing for Blind and Low Vision Meeting Facilitators

Akter, T., Cha, Y., Figueira, I., Branham, S.M., Piper, A.M.

ASSETS 2023

How the Alt Text Gets Made: What Roles and Processes of Alt Text Creation Can Teach Us About Inclusive Imagery

Emory J. Edwards, Michael Gilbert, Emily Blank, Stacy M. Branham

TACCESS

Deinstitutionalizing Independence: Discourses of Disability and Housing in Accessible Computing

Kevin M. Storer and Stacy M. Branham

ASSETS 2021

"That’s in the eye of the beholder:" Layers of Interpretation in Image Descriptions for Fictional Representations of People with Disabilities

Emory James Edwards, Kyle Lewis Polster, Isabel Tuason, Emily Blank, Michael Gilbert, and Stacy Branham

ASSETS 2021

Towards More Transactional Voice Assistants: Investigating the Potential for a Multimodal Voice-Activated Indoor Navigation Assistant for Blind and Sighted Travelers

Ali Abdolrahmani, Maya Howes Gupta, Mei-Lian Vader, Ravi Kuber, and Stacy Branham

CHI 2021

Latte: Use-Case and Assistive-Service Driven Automated Accessibility Testing Framework for Android

Navid Salehnamadi, Abdulaziz Alshayban, Jun-Wei Lin, Iftekhar Ahmed, Stacy Branham, and Sam Malek

CHI 2021

Are Current Voice Interfaces Designed to Support Children’s Language Development?

Ying Xu, Stacy Branham, Xinwei Deng, Penelope Collins, and Mark Warschauer

CHI 2021

"All in the Same Boat:" Tradeoffs of Voice Assistant Ownership for Mixed-Visual-Ability Families.

Kevin M. Storer, Tejinder K. Judge, and Stacy M. Branham

CHI 2020

Towards More Universal Wayfinding Technologies: Navigation Preferences Across Disabilities

Maya Gupta, Ali Abdolrahmani, Emory Edwards, Mayra Cortez, Andrew Tumang, Yasmin Majali, Marc Lazaga, Samhitha Tarra, Prasad Patil, Ravi Kuber, and Stacy M. Branham

CHI 2020

Blind Leading the Sighted: Drawing Design Insights from Blind Users Towards More Productivity-Oriented Voice Interfaces

Ali Abdolrahmani, Kevin M. Storer, Antony Rishin Mukkath Roy, Ravi Kuber, and Stacy M. Branham

TACCESS

Reading Between the Guidelines: How Commercial Voice Assistant Guidelines Hinder Accessibility for Blind Users

Stacy M. Branham and Antony Rishin Mukkath Roy.

ASSETS 2019

"That’s the Way Sighted People Do It:" What Blind Parents Can Teach Technology Designers About Co-Reading with Children

Kevin M. Storer and Stacy M. Branham

DIS 2019

Honorable Mention

Safe Spaces and Safe Places: Unpacking Technology-Mediated Experiences of Safety and Harm with Transgender People

Morgan Klaus Scheuerman, Stacy M. Branham, and Foad Hamidi

CSCW 2018

Interdependence as a Frame for Assistive Technology Research and Design

Cynthia L. Bennett, Erin Brady, and Stacy M. Branham

ASSETS 2018

Best Paper

“Siri Talks At You:” An Empirical Investigation of Voice Activated Personal Assistant (VAPA) Usage by Individuals Who are Blind

Ali Abdolrahmani, Ravi Kuber, and Stacy M. Branham.

ASSETS 2018

Gender Recognition or Gender Reductionism? The Social Implications of Automatic Gender Recognition Systems

Foad Hamidi, Morgan Klaus Scheuerman, and Stacy M. Branham

CHI 2018

Best Paper

“Is Someone There? Do They Have a Gun?” How Visual Information About Others Can Improve Personal Safety Management for Blind Individuals

Stacy M. Branham, Ali Abdolrahmani, William Easley, Morgan Scheuerman, Erick Ronquillo, and Amy Hurst

ASSETS 2018

Best Paper

All Publications

Inspiring Blind and Low Vision High School Students and their Teachers to Access STEM in College

Creative Problem-Solving: A Study with Blind and Low Vision Software Professionals

The Dilemma of Building Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Solutions for Workplace Accessibility

Dude, Where's My Luggage? An Autoethnographic Account of Airport Navigation by a Traveler with Residual Vision

Intersecting Liminality: Acquiring a Smartphone as a Blind or Low Vision Older Adult

"Malicious Pictorials:" How Alt Text Matters to Screen Reader Users’ Experience of Image-Dense Media

Cuddling Up With a Print-Braille Book: How Intimacy and Access Shape Parents’ Reading Practices with Children

“‘Do You Want Me to Participate or Not?’: Investigating the Accessibility of Software Development Meetings for Blind and Low Vision Professionals

Understanding the Career Mobility of Blind and Low Vision Software Professionals

Which AI Models Create Accurate Alt Text for Picture Books?

“‘If I’m supposed to be the facilitator, I should be the host’: Understanding the Accessibility of Videoconferencing for Blind and Low Vision Meeting Facilitators

How the Alt Text Gets Made: What Roles and Processes of Alt Text Creation Can Teach Us About Inclusive Imagery

Deinstitutionalizing Independence: Discourses of Disability and Housing in Accessible Computing

"That’s in the eye of the beholder:" Layers of Interpretation in Image Descriptions for Fictional Representations of People with Disabilities

Towards More Transactional Voice Assistants: Investigating the Potential for a Multimodal Voice-Activated Indoor Navigation Assistant for Blind and Sighted Travelers

Latte: Use-Case and Assistive-Service Driven Automated Accessibility Testing Framework for Android

Are Current Voice Interfaces Designed to Support Children’s Language Development?

"All in the Same Boat:" Tradeoffs of Voice Assistant Ownership for Mixed-Visual-Ability Families.

Towards More Universal Wayfinding Technologies: Navigation Preferences Across Disabilities

Blind Leading the Sighted: Drawing Design Insights from Blind Users Towards More Productivity-Oriented Voice Interfaces

Reading Between the Guidelines: How Commercial Voice Assistant Guidelines Hinder Accessibility for Blind Users

"That’s the Way Sighted People Do It:" What Blind Parents Can Teach Technology Designers About Co-Reading with Children

Safe Spaces and Safe Places: Unpacking Technology-Mediated Experiences of Safety and Harm with Transgender People

Interdependence as a Frame for Assistive Technology Research and Design

“Siri Talks At You:” An Empirical Investigation of Voice Activated Personal Assistant (VAPA) Usage by Individuals Who are Blind

Gender Recognition or Gender Reductionism? The Social Implications of Automatic Gender Recognition Systems

“Is Someone There? Do They Have a Gun?” How Visual Information About Others Can Improve Personal Safety Management for Blind Individuals

Embracing Errors: Examining How Context of Use Impacts Blind Individuals’ Acceptance of Navigation Aid Errors

The Invisible Work of Accessibility: How Blind Employees Manage Accessibility in Mixed-Ability Workplaces

Collaborative Accessibility: How Blind and Sighted Companions Co-Create Accessible Home Spaces.

Sharing is Caring: Assistive Technology Designs on Thingiverse