Projects in submission have had their titles changed to comply with the double-blind review process.
Names with an asterisk (*) denote equal contribution
Daniel Killough, Tiger F. Ji, Kexin Zhang, Yaxin Hu, Yu Huang, Ruofei Du, Yuhang Zhao
Evaluating existing 3D accessibility guidelines with XR practitioners across different levels of industry and why they don't fully support XR development. Also see our work 'XR for All' for an extended version of this work, which includes additional perspectives on a11y development as a whole.
Kexin Zhang, Daniel Killough, Xinran Adeline Li, Yaxing Yao, Yuhang Zhao
Co-designing protection mechanisms against ableist harassment in social VR with 11 people with disabilities, structured around Hall's proxemic zones (intimate, personal, social, public). Participants often prioritized maintaining their social image over safety, informing design recommendations for protections that don't compromise how people want to present themselves.
Daniel Killough, Justin Feng*, Zheng Xue "ZX" Ching*, Daniel Wang*, Rithvik Dyava*, Yapeng Tian, Yuhang Zhao
Using state-of-the-art object detection, zero-shot depth estimation, and multimodal large language models to identify virtual objects in social VR applications for blind and low vision people. *Authors 2, 3, 4, & 5 contributed equally to this work.
Daniel Killough, Tiger F. Ji, Kexin Zhang, Yaxin Hu, Yu Huang, Ruofei Du, Yuhang Zhao
'Deluxe/Extended Edition' of our CHI 2026 Guidelines paper, analyzing developer challenges on integrating a11y features into their XR apps. Includes additional perspectives from practitioners alongside guideline evaluation, covering why/why not they develop a11y features for people with visual, cognitive, motor, and speech & hearing impairments.
Zheng Ning, Leyang Li, Daniel Killough, JooYoung Seo, Patrick Carrington, Yapeng Tian, Yuhang Zhao, Franklin Mingzhe Li, Toby Jia-Jun Li
AI-powered cooking assistant using wearable cameras to help blind and low-vision users by integrating non-visual cues (touch, smell) with video recipe content. The system proactively offers alerts and guidance, helping users understand their cooking state by aligning their physical environment with recipe instructions.
Daniel Killough*, Ruijia Chen*, Yuhang Zhao, Bilge Mutlu
Evaluating effects of mixed reality's tendency to drift objects on user perception and performance of task difficulty.
Ru Wang, Zach Potter, Yun Ho, Daniel Killough, Linda Zeng, Sanbrita Mondal, Yuhang Zhao
System using eyetracking to augment passages of text, supporting low vision peoples' reading challenges (e.g., line switching and difficult word recognition).
Daniel Killough, Amy Pavel
Making live video more accessible to blind users by crowdsourcing audio descriptions for real-time playback. Crowdsourced descriptions with 18 sighted community experts and evaluated with 9 blind participants.
Arman Farsad*, Daniel Killough*, Sahar Ali, Neha Momin, Sajani Patel, Thushani Herath, Lucy Atkinson, Erin Reilly
Two-part system leveraging advertising, game theory, and augmented reality to encourage young adults in Singapore and Texas to protect themselves against skin cancer. Image shows realistic cosmetic skin cancer effects on users' faces over time, as informed by collaborators in public health.
Daniel Killough
Senior thesis investigating the feasibility of virtual reality technologies for use in oral placement therapy training (speech therapy largely for kids with Down syndrome). Developed and evaluated system to convert existing 2D recordings to stereoscopic 3D for use with mobile VR. Recorded additional visuals to "bring" therapists into the presenter's context.
I'm grateful to have worked with the following collaborators!