Accessibility alone has not been enough to allow visually impaired people (VIPs) to experience the world with the same level of independence and richness as others can. Audio-based assistive technologies such as navigation aids and audio games (audio-only video games)…

Virtual reality (VR) offers new and compelling ways for users to interact with digital content. VR provides immersive experiences that can be beneficial in various domains, such as gaming, training simulations, education, communication, and design. As VR technologies continue to…

Machine learning is the next great technological revolution, working hand-in-hand with distributed datacenter technology to achieve a paradigm shift in computing over the next decade. We often discuss machine learning and AI technologies in pure engineering terms -- this talk…

In the well-known two sigma problem introduced in 1984, Bloom found that students tutored by a one-on-one mastery-learning tutor achieved a learning outcome two standard deviations higher than those tutored by traditional learning methods. Since one-on-one tutoring is too costly…

AI systems are increasingly used to support human work in richly social contexts such as education, healthcare, and social work. To ensure that AI systems do more good than harm, it is critical that they are designed to bring out…

Designing for Voice: Access, Autonomy, and Justification Questions in Designing Computing Technologies with Marginalized Communities The benefits of computing are often confined within the populations with certain privileges. Those benefits rarely reach billions of underprivileged lives around the world fighting…