Publications

2024

Uncovering Human Traits in Determining Real and Spoofed Audio: Insights from Blind and Sighted Individuals
Chaeeun Han, Prasenjit Mitra, and Syed M. Billah
Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024) [PDF]

BubbleCam: Engaging Privacy in Remote Sighted Assistance
Jingyi Xie*, Rui Yu*, He Zhang, Sooyeon Lee, Syed M. Billah, and John M. Carroll
Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024) [PDF]

2023

SpaceXMag: An Automatic, Scalable Space Compactor of Smartphone Apps for Efficient, Usable, and Context-Aware Screen Magnification for Low-Vision Users
Touhidul Islam, and Syed M. Billah
The Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), Vol. 7(3) [PDF]

Abacus Gestures: A Large Set of Math-Based Usable Finger-Counting Gestures for Mid-Air Interactions
Md Ehtesham-Ul-Haque, and Syed M. Billah
The Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), Vol. 7(3) [PDF]

Are Two Heads Better than One? Investigating Remote Sighted Assistance with Paired Volunteers?
Jingyi Xie, Rui Yu, Kaiming Cui, Sooyeon Lee, John M. Carroll, and Syed M. Billah
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS 2023) [PDF]

A Probabilistic Model and Metrics for Estimating Perceived Accessibility of Desktop Applications in Keystroke-Based Non-Visual Interactions
Md Touhidul Islam, and Syed M. Billah
Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2023) [PDF]

Data Sonification with Natural Sounds
Naimul Hoque, Md Ehtesham-Ul-Haque, Niklas Elmqvist, and Syed M. Billah
Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2023) [PDF]

Understanding the Usages, Life-Cycle, and Opportunities of Screen Readers' Plugins
Farhani Momotaz, Md Ehtesham-Ul-Haque, and Syed M. Billah
ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS) [PDF]

2022

Grid-Coding: An Accessible, Efficient, and Structured Coding Paradigm for Blind and Low-Vision Programmers (*received the best paper award*)
Md Ehtesham-Ul-Haque, Syed Mostofa Monsur, and Syed M. Billah
Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2022) [PDF]

Helping Helpers: Supporting Volunteers in Remote Sighted Assistance with Augmented Reality Maps
Jingyi Xie, Rui Yu, Sooyeon Lee, Yao Lyu, Syed M. Billah, and John M. Carroll
Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS 2022 [PDF]

Opportunities for Human-AI Collaboration in Remote Sighted Assistance
Sooyeon Lee, Rui Yu, Jingyi Xie, Syed M. Billah, and John M. Carroll
27th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2022) [PDF]

2021

Iterative Design and Prototyping of Computer Vision Mediated Remote Sighted Assistance
Jingyi Xie, Madison Reddie, Sooyeon Lee, Syed M. Billah, Zihan Zhou, Chun-Hua Tsai, and John M. Carroll
ACM Transaction on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) (January 2021) [PDF]

Tilt-Explore: Making Tilt Gestures Usable for Low-Vision Smartphone Users
Farhani Momotaz, and Syed M. Billah
UIST '21: The 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology [PDF]

Understanding Screen Readers' Plugins
Farhani Momotaz, Md Touhidul Islam, Md Ehtesham-Ul-Haque, and Syed M. Billah
The 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '21) [PDF]

2020

Towards Multi-Wheel Input Device for Non-Visual Interaction
Noushad Sojib, Syed M. Billah, and Mohammad Ruhul Amin
In Adjunct Publication of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology [PDF]

Toward Interactively Balancing the Screen Time of Actors Based on Observable Phenotypic Traits in Live Telecast
Md Naimul Hoque, Nazmus Saquib, Syed M. Billah, and Klaus Mueller
In Proceedings of the the 23rd ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2020) [PDF] [Video]

2019

DarkReader: Bridging the Gap Between Perception andReality of Power Consumption in Smartphonesfor Blind Users
Syed M. Billah*, Jian Xu*, Roy Shilkrot, and Aruna Balasubramanian (*Equal contribution)
In Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2019) [PDF]

Before A11y Lab

Accessible Gesture Typing for NonVisual Text Entry on Smartphones
Syed M. Billah, Yu-Jung Ko, Vikas Ashok, Xiaojun Bi, and I.V. Ramakrishnan
In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2019) [PDF]

Towards Enabling Blind People to Independently Write on Printed Forms
Shirin Feiz*, Syed M. Billah*, Vikas Ashok, Roy Shilkrot, and I.V. Ramakrishnan (*Equal contribution)
In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2019) [PDF]

Auto-Suggesting Browsing Actions for Personalized Web Screen Reading
Vikas Ashok, Syed M. Billah,  Yevgen Borodin, and I.V. Ramakrishnan
In Proceedings of 27th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2019) [PDF]

SteeringWheel: A Locality-Preserving Magnification Interface for Low Vision Web Browsing
Syed M. Billah, Vikas Ashok, Donald E. Porter, and I.V. Ramakrishnan
In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2018) [PDF]

Write-it-Yourself with the Aid of Smartwatches: A Wizard-of-Oz Experiment with Blind People
Syed M. Billah, Vikas Ashok, and I.V. Ramakrishnan
In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2018) [PDF]

Ubiquitous Accessibility for People with Visual Impairments: Are We There Yet?
Syed M. Billah, Vikas Ashok, Donald E. Porter, and I.V. Ramakrishnan
In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017) [PDF]

Speed-Dial: A Surrogate Mouse for Non-Visual Web Browsing
Syed M. Billah, Vikas Ashok, Donald E. Porter, and I.V. Ramakrishnan
In Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2017) [PDF]

Sinter: Low-bandwidth Remote Access for the Visually-Impaired
Syed M. Billah, Donald E. Porter, and I.V. Ramakrishnan
In Proceedings of the Eleventh European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2016) [PDF]

Non-visual Web Browsing: Beyond Web Accessibility
I.V. Ramakrishnan, Vikas Ashok, and Syed M. Billah
In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference, UAHCI 2017, Held as Part of HCI International 2017 (HCII 2017) [PDF]

Social Network Analysis for Predicting Emerging Researchers
Syed M. Billah, and Susan Gauch
In Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (KDIR’15) [PDF]

Automatic Class Labeling for CiteSeerX
Surya Dhairya Kashireddy, Susan Gauch, and Syed M. Billah
In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conferences on Web Intelligence (WI 2013) [PDF]