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Guest Speaker: Prof. Yuhang Zhao
Date and Time: Nov 9, 9:15-10:15 am, Beijing Time.
Zoom ID: 989 5768 1032; Passcode: XRLAB
Talk Introduction
Social VR has the potential to become the next generation of the Internet. However, current VR technology mainly relies on realistic visual feedback to provide an immersive experience to sighted people. Most VR applications are not accessible to visually impaired people, preventing them from benefiting from this important class of emerging technology. In this talk, I’ll describe my research on social VR accessibility and inclusion, where we explore avatar accessibility and inclusion for disabled people and design audio-based VR techniques to make avatar dynamics in social VR accessible to visually impaired people. I will also reflect on general accessibility guidelines for VR.
Biography
Yuhang Zhao is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests include human-computer interaction, accessibility, and augmented and virtual reality. She designs and builds intelligent interactive technologies to enhance human abilities and make emerging technologies accessible. Her work has been published at many top-tier conferences and journals in the field of HCI (including three best paper nominees and one recognition for contribution diversity and inclusion award). She received her Ph.D. degree in Information Science from Cornell University and M.S. in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, China.
