Research

Accessible Tooling and Infrastructure

[C6] Omar Khan and JooYoung Seo. 2026. "I Don't Trust Any Professional Research Tool": A Re-Imagination of Knowledge Production Workflows by, with, and for Blind and Low-Vision Researchers.CHI '26First Author In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Barcelona, Spain. ACM, 24 pages. [DOI] | [arXiv]

[C5] Sanchita S. Kamath, Omar Khan, Anurag Choudhary, Jan Meyerhoff-Liang, Soyoung Choi, and JooYoung Seo. 2025. PunchPulse: A Physically Demanding Virtual Reality Boxing Game Designed with, for and by Blind and Low-Vision Players.ASSETS '25 In the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Denver, CO, USA. ACM, 21 pages. [DOI]

[C4] Sanchita S. Kamath, Omar Khan, Aziz N. Zeidieh, and JooYoung Seo. 2025. Sensing the Shape of Data: Non-Visual Exploration of Statistical Concepts in Histograms with Blind and Low-Vision Learners.Preprint arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.14452. [arXiv]

Human-AI, Inclusion, and Consent

[C3] 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.CHI '25 In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, Article 42, 1–22. [DOI]

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

[C1] Mahmood, S., Zhao, M., Khan, O., Herman, G.L. (2020). Caches as an Example of Machine-gradable Exam Questions for Complex Engineering Systems.FIE '20 In Proceedings of the 49th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Uppsala, Sweden. [DOI]

Digital Mental Health and Works in Progress

[P3] 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.CHI EA '25First Author In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, Article 27, 1–13. [DOI] | [arXiv]

Posters and presentations

[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.ASSETS '24 In Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. ACM, Article 88, 1–5. [DOI]

[P1] 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.