Publications

Browse our publications, groupped by year of publishing.

2025

• Benthic: Perceptually congruent structures for accessible charts and diagrams

  C. Mei; J. Pollock; D. Hajas; J. Zong; A. Satyanarayan (2025). Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS ’25). Association for Computing Machinery

  DOI: 10.1145/3663547.3746342 · PDF

• Semantic scaffolding: Augmenting textual structures with domain-specific groupings for accessible data exploration (Preprint)

  J. Zong; I. Pedraza Pineros; M. K. Chen; D. Hajas; A. Satyanarayan (2025). arXiv (preprint)

  DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2506.15883 · Publisher · PDF · Accessible HTML

• Using tactile charts to support comprehension and learning of complex visualizations for blind and low vision individuals

  T. He; M. McCracken; D. Hajas; S. Creem-Regehr; A. Lex (2025). IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)

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• Accessible text descriptions for UpSet plots

  A. McNutt; M. K. McCracken; I. J. Elizay; D. Hajas; J. Wagoner; N. Lanza; J. Wilburn; S. Creem-Regehr; A. Lex (2025). Computer Graphics Forum, 44(3). Proceedings of the Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis) 2025

  DOI: 10.1109/AccessViz64636.2024.00005 · Publisher · PDF · Accessible HTML

2024

• “Customization is key”: Reconfigurable content tokens for accessible data visualizations

  S. Jones; I. Pedraza Pineros; D. Hajas; J. Zong; A. Satyanarayan (2024). Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 47:1–47:14). Association for Computing Machinery

  DOI: 10.1145/3613904.3641970 · Publisher · PDF · Accessible HTML

• Umwelt: Accessible structured editing of multi-modal data representations

  J. Zong; I. Pedraza Pineros; M. K. Chen; D. Hajas; A. Satyanarayan (2024). Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 46:1–46:20). Association for Computing Machinery

  DOI: 10.1145/3613904.3641996 · Publisher · PDF · Accessible HTML

2022

• Rich screen reader experiences for accessible data visualization

  J. Zong; C. Lee; A. Lundgard; J. Jang; D. Hajas; A. Satyanarayan (2022). Computer Graphics Forum, 41(3), 15–27

  DOI: 10.1111/cgf.14519 · Publisher · PDF · Accessible HTML

2020

• Improving immersive experiences for visitors with sensory impairments to the Aquarium of the Pacific

  B. O’Conaill; J. Provan; J. Schubel; D. Hajas; M. Obrist; L. Corenthy (2020). Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’20), 1–8. ACM

  DOI: 10.1145/3334480.3375214 · Publisher · PDF

• Closed haptioning: A demonstration of using mid-air haptics for improving accessibility of audio-visual content beyond closed captions and audio description

  D. Hajas; D. Pittera; M. Obrist (2020). Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications (EuroHaptics 2020). Springer

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• Communicating cosmology with multisensory metaphorical experiences

  R. Trotta; D. Hajas; J. E. Camargo-Molina; R. Cobden; E. Maggioni; M. Obrist (2020). Journal of Science Communication (JCOM), 19(02), N01

  DOI: 10.22323/2.19020801 · Publisher · PDF · Accessible HTML

• I can feel it moving: Science Communicators Talking About the Potential of Mid-Air Haptics

  D. Hajas; D. Ablart; O. Schneider; M. Obrist (2020). Frontiers in Computer Science, 2:534974

  DOI: 10.3389/fcomp.2020.534974 · Publisher · PDF · Accessible HTML

• Mid-air haptic rendering of 2D geometric shapes with a dynamic tactile pointer

  D. Hajas; D. Pittera; A. Nasce; O. Georgiou; M. Obrist (2020). IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 13(4), 806–817

  DOI: 10.1109/TOH.2020.2966445 · Publisher · PDF · Accessible HTML