Publications by project:

DHH Cyber Community (ongoing)

submitted for publication: Anna C. Cavender and Richard E. Ladner (2008) The Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Computing.

PDF Jeffrey P. Bigham, Daniel Otero, Jessica N. DeWitt, Anna C. Cavender and Richard E. Ladner (2008) ASL-STEM Forum: A Bottom-Up Approach to Enabling American Sign Language to Grow in STEM Fields. International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM '08). Seattle, Washington, March 2008.

PDF Anna C. Cavender (2007) Using Networked Multimedia to Improve Educational Access for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students. Accessibility and Computing: The Newsletter of ACM SIGACCESS. First appeared in the Doctoral Consortium of ACM ASSETS 2007. Tempe, Arizona, October 2008, 15-17.

MobileASL (ongoing)

PDF Neva Cherniavsky, Anna C. Cavender, Eve A. Riskin, and Richard E. Ladner (2007) Variable Frame Rate for Low Power Mobile Sign Language Communication. Proceedings of ASSETS 2007: The Ninth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Tempe, Arizona, October 2007. 163-170.

PDF Anna Cavender,  Rahul Vanam,  Dane K. Barney,  Richard E. Ladner, and Eve A. Riskin (2007) MobileASL: Intelligibility of sign language video over mobile phones. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology. London: Taylor and Francis, 1-13.

PDF Anna Cavender, Richard E. Ladner, and Eve A. Riskin (2006) MobileASL: Intelligibility of Sign Language Video as Constrained by Mobile Phone Technology. Proceedings of ASSETS 2006: The Sixth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Portland, Oregon, October 2006, 71-78. Winner of Best Student Technical Paper Award

PDF Frank Ciaramello, Anna Cavender, Sheila Hemami, Eve Riskin, and Richard Ladner (2006) Predicting Intelligibility of Compressed American Sign Language Video With Objective Quality Metrics. International Workshop on Video Processing and Quality Metrics for Consumer Electronics, Scottsdale, Arizona, January 2006.

WebinSitu (ongoing)

submitted for publication: Jeffrey P. Bigham and Anna C. Cavender (2008) Evaluating Existing Audio CAPTCHAs and an Interface Optimized for Non-Visual Use.

Jeremy T. Brudvik, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Anna C. Cavender, and Richard E. Ladner (2008) Hunting for Headings: Sighted Labelers vs. Automatic Classification of Headings. Proceedings of ASSETS 2008: The Tenth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Halifax, Canada, October 2008. to appear.

PDF Jeffrey P. Bigham, Anna C. Cavender, Jeremy T. Brudvik, Jacob O. Wobbrock and Richard E. Ladner (2007) WebinSitu: A Comparative Analysis of Blind and Sighted Browsing Behavior. Proceedings of ASSETS 2007: The Ninth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Tempe, AZ, October 2007. 51-58.

Accessibility and Virtual Worlds (2007-2008)

PDF Shari Trewin, Vicki L. Hanson, Mark Laff, and Anna Cavender (2008) PowerUp: An Accessible Virtual World. Proceedings of ASSETS 2008: The Tenth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Halifax, Canada, October 2008. to appear.

PDF Shari Trewin, Mark Laff, Anna Cavender and Vicki L. Hanson (2008) Accessibility in virtual worlds. CHI 2008 Extended Abstracts: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Florence, Italy, April 2008. 2727-2732.

Transcendence (2007-2008)

PDF Jeffrey P. Bigham, Anna C. Cavender, Ryan S. Kaminsky, Craig M. Prince and Tyler S. Robison (2008) Transcendence: Enabling a Personal View of the Deep Web. Proceedings of IUI 2008: The 11th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Canary Islands, Spain, January 2008. 169-178.

EyeDraw (2003-2005)

PDF Anthony J. Hornof & Anna Cavender (2005). EyeDraw: Enabling children with severe motor impairments to draw with their eyes. Proceedings of ACM CHI 2005: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Portland, Oregon, April 2005. 161-170.

PDF Anthony J. Hornof, Anna Cavender, & Rob Hoselton (2004). EyeDraw: A system for drawing pictures with eye movements. Proceedings of ASSETS 2004: The Sixth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Atlanta, Georgia, October 2004. 86-93.

PDF Anthony J. Hornof, Anna Cavender, & Rob Hoselton (2004). EyeDraw: A system for drawing pictures with the eyes. Extended Abstracts of ACM CHI 2004: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Vienna, Austria, April 2004. 1251-1254.