Research

Research is nothing if not for your collaborators, and I have had the tremendous opportunity to work with many amazing ones throughout my life. Here, you can find more information on publications and presentations I've worked on with these folks.

Conference and Journal Publications

[C1] Alex Atcheson, Omar Khan, Brian Siemann, Anika Jain, and Karrie Karahalios. 2025. ”I’d Never Actually Realized How Big An Impact It Had Until Now”: Perspectives of University Students with Disabilities on Generative Artificial Intelligence. To appear. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25), April 26– May 01, 2025, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 21 pages. [Link]


[C2] Chiang, Y.S, Khan, O., Bates, A., and Cobb, C. (2024). More than just informed: The importance of consent facets in smart homes.In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), May 11–16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 21 pages. [Link]


[C3] Mahmood, S., Zhao, M., Khan, O., Herman, G.L. (2020). Caches as an Example of Machine-gradable Exam Questions for Complex Engineering Systems.In Proceedings of the 49th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Uppsala, Sweden, Oct. 21-24. [Link]


Works in Progress, Posters, and Presentations

[P1] Omar Khan and JooYoung Seo. 2025. "Sighted People Have Their Pick Of The Litter": Unpacking The Need For Digital Mental Health (DMH) Tracking Services With And For The Blind Community. To appear. In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’25), April 26‐May 1, 2025, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 13 pages. [DOI] | [arxiv]


[P2] Sanchita S. Kamath, Aziz Zeidieh, Omar Khan, Dhruv Sethi, and JooYoung Seo. 2024. Playing Without Barriers: Crafting Playful and Accessible VR Table-Tennis with and for Blind and Low-Vision Individuals. In Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 88, 1–5. [Link]


[P3] Deep, H., Huang, J., Dembi, R., Khan, O., Angrave, L.. Webcam Eye-Tracking Based Accessibility for ClassTranscribe.Virtual poster presentation: Illinois Undergraduate Research Symposium 2021.