Publications
Publications are listed with direct venue and PDF links where available.
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2026
| Title | Authors | Venue / Links |
|---|---|---|
| Giving Meaning to Movements: Challenges and Opportunities in Expanding Communication by Pairing Unaided AAC with Speech Generated Messages | Imran Kabir, Sharon Ann Redmon, Lynn R Elko, Kevin Williams, Mitchell A Case, Dawn J Sowers, Krista M Wilkinson, Syed Masum Billah | CHI 2026 PDF |
| VoiceAlign: A Shimming Layer for Enhancing the Usability of Legacy Voice User Interface Systems | Md Ehtesham-Ul-Haque, Syed Masum Billah | IUI 2026 PDF |
2025
| Title | Authors | Venue / Links |
|---|---|---|
| Logic-RAG: Augmenting Large Multimodal Models with Visual-Spatial Knowledge for Road Scene Understanding | Imran Kabir, Md Alimoor Reza, Syed Billah | ICRA 2025 PDF |
| Beyond Visual Perception: Insights from Smartphone Interaction of Visually Impaired Users with Large Multimodal Models | Jingyi Xie, Rui Yu, He Zhang, Syed Masum Billah, Sooyeon Lee, John M. Carroll | CHI 2025 PDF |
| IKIWISI: An Interactive Visual Pattern Generator for Evaluating the Reliability of Vision-Language Models Without Ground Truth 🏆 Received Best Paper Honorable Mention | Md Touhidul Islam, Imran Kabir, Md Alimoor Reza, Syed Masum Billah | DIS 2025 PDF |
| ToPSen: Task-Oriented Priming and Sensory Alignment for Comparing Coding Strategies Between Sighted and Blind Programmers | Md Ehtesham-Ul-Haque, Syed Masum Billah | DIS 2025 PDF |
| Consideration of Artificial Intelligence Applications for Interpreting Communicative Movements by Individuals with Visual and/or Motor Disabilities | Krista M. Wilkinson, Dawn J. Sowers, Lynn R. Elko, Mitchell Case, Sharon Redmon, Kevin Williams, Tanuj Namdeo, Syed Billah | Augmentative and Alternative Communication PDF |
| Natural Gestures Produce Voice Output on an AAC Device: AI Bridges the Gap | Dawn Sowers, Lynn Elko, Emma Elko, Kevin Williams, Mitchell Case, Syed Billah, TJ Namdeo, Sharon Redmon, Krista Wilkinson | ATiA 2025 PDF |
| Enhancing the Travel Experience for People with Visual Impairments through Multimodal Interaction: NaviGPT, A Real-Time AI-Driven Mobile Navigation System | He Zhang, Nicholas J. Falletta, Jingyi Xie, Rui Yu, Sooyeon Lee, Syed Masum Billah, John M. Carroll | GROUP 2025 Companion PDF |
2024
| Title | Authors | Venue / Links |
|---|---|---|
| Uncovering Human Traits in Determining Real and Spoofed Audio: Insights from Blind and Sighted Individuals | Chaeeun Han, Prasenjit Mitra, Syed Masum Billah | CHI 2024 PDF |
| BubbleCam: Engaging Privacy in Remote Sighted Assistance | Jingyi Xie, Rui Yu, He Zhang, Sooyeon Lee, Syed Masum Billah, John M. Carroll | CHI 2024 PDF |
| Wheeler: A Three-Wheeled Input Device for Usable, Efficient, and Versatile Non-Visual Interaction 🏆 Received Best Paper Honorable Mention | Md Touhidul Islam, Noushad Sojib, Imran Kabir, Ashiqur Rahman Amit, Mohammad Ruhul Amin, Syed Masum Billah | UIST 2024 PDF |
| Identifying Crucial Objects in Blind and Low-Vision Individuals' Navigation | Md Touhidul Islam, Imran Kabir, Elena Ariel Pearce, Md Alimoor Reza, Syed Masum Billah | ASSETS 2024 PDF |
| Wheel-Based Attachable Footwear for VR: Challenges and Opportunities in Seated Walking-in-Place Locomotion | Zheyu Zhang, Syed Masum Billah | VRST 2024 PDF |
| Cognitive Models for Abacus Gesture Learning | Lingyun He, Duk Hee Ka, Md Ehtesham-Ul-Haque, Syed Masum Billah, Farnaz Tehranchi | CogSci 2024 PDF |
| Robot-Mediated Assistance: Opportunities and Challenges in Computer Vision and Human-Robot Interaction | Md Alimoor Reza, Syed Masum Billah | Computer Vision (Chapman and Hall/CRC) PDF |
| Human-AI Collaboration for Remote Sighted Assistance: Perspectives from the LLM Era | Rui Yu, Sooyeon Lee, Jingyi Xie, Syed M. Billah, John M. Carroll | Future Internet PDF |
2023
| Title | Authors | Venue / Links |
|---|---|---|
| A Probabilistic Model and Metrics for Estimating Perceived Accessibility of Desktop Applications in Keystroke-Based Non-Visual Interactions | Md Touhidul Islam, Syed M. Billah | CHI 2023 PDF |
| Data Sonification with Natural Sounds | Naimul Hoque, Md Ehtesham-Ul-Haque, Niklas Elmqvist, Syed M. Billah | CHI 2023 PDF |
| SpaceXMag: An Automatic, Scalable Space Compactor of Smartphone Apps for Efficient, Usable, and Context-Aware Screen Magnification for Low-Vision Users | Touhidul Islam, Syed M. Billah | IMWUT 2023 PDF |
| Abacus Gestures: A Large Set of Math-Based Usable Finger-Counting Gestures for Mid-Air Interactions | Md Ehtesham-Ul-Haque, Syed M. Billah | IMWUT 2023 PDF |
| Are Two Heads Better than One? Investigating Remote Sighted Assistance with Paired Volunteers | Xie, Yu, Cui, Lee, Carroll, Billah | DIS 2023 PDF |
| Understanding the Usages, Life-Cycle, and Opportunities of Screen Readers' Plugins | Farhani Momotaz, Md Ehtesham-Ul-Haque, Syed M. Billah | TACCESS PDF |
2022
| Title | Authors | Venue / Links |
|---|---|---|
| Grid-Coding: An Accessible, Efficient, and Structured Coding Paradigm for Blind and Low-Vision Programmers 🏆 Received Best Paper Award | Md Ehtesham-Ul-Haque, Syed Mostofa Monsur, Syed M. Billah | 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, John M. Carroll | DIS 2022 PDF |
| Opportunities for Human-AI Collaboration in Remote Sighted Assistance | Sooyeon Lee, Rui Yu, Jingyi Xie, Syed M. Billah, John M. Carroll | IUI 2022 PDF |
2021
| Title | Authors | Venue / Links |
|---|---|---|
| Tilt-Explore: Making Tilt Gestures Usable for Low-Vision Smartphone Users | Farhani Momotaz, Syed M. Billah | UIST 2021 PDF |
| 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, John M. Carroll | TOCHI 2021 PDF |
| Understanding Screen Readers' Plugins | Farhani Momotaz, Md Touhidul Islam, Md Ehtesham-Ul-Haque, Syed M. Billah | ASSETS 2021 PDF |
2020
| Title | Authors | Venue / Links |
|---|---|---|
| Towards Multi-Wheel Input Device for Non-Visual Interaction | Noushad Sojib, Syed M. Billah, Mohammad Ruhul Amin | UIST Adjunct 2020 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, Klaus Mueller | CSCW 2020 PDF |
2019 and Earlier
| Title | Authors | Venue / Links |
|---|---|---|
| Accessible Gesture Typing for NonVisual Text Entry on Smartphones | Syed M. Billah, Yu-Jung Ko, Vikas Ashok, Xiaojun Bi, and I.V. Ramakrishnan | 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) | CHI 2019 PDF |
| Auto-Suggesting Browsing Actions for Personalized Web Screen Reading | Vikas Ashok, Syed M. Billah, Yevgen Borodin, and I.V. Ramakrishnan | UMAP 2019 PDF |
| DarkReader: Bridging the Gap Between Perception and Reality of Power Consumption in Smartphones for Blind Users 🏆 Received Best Paper Honorable Mention | Syed M. Billah, Jian Xu, Roy Shilkrot, and Aruna Balasubramanian | ASSETS 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | ASSETS 2017 PDF |
| Non-visual Web Browsing: Beyond Web Accessibility | I.V. Ramakrishnan, Vikas Ashok, and Syed M. Billah | HCII 2017 PDF |
| Sinter: Low-bandwidth Remote Access for the Visually-Impaired | Syed M. Billah, Donald E. Porter, and I.V. Ramakrishnan | EuroSys 2016 PDF |
| Social Network Analysis for Predicting Emerging Researchers | Syed M. Billah and Susan Gauch | KDIR 2015 PDF |