Publications

Conference Papers

  1. Exploring Accessible Smartwatch Interactions for People with Upper Body Motor Impairments..
    Meethu Malu, Pramod Chundhury, Leah Findlater. Proceedings of CHI 2018
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  2. Sharing Automatically Tracked Activity Data: Implications for Therapists and People with Mobility Impairments.
    Meethu Malu and Leah Findlater. Proceedings of Pervasive Health 2017
    Acceptance Rate: 25% (29/116)
  3. Comparing Touchscreen and Mouse Input Performance by People With and Without Upper Body Motor Impairments.
    Leah Findlater, Karyn Moffatt, Jon E. Froehlich, Meethu Malu, Joan Zhang. Proceedings of CHI 2017
    Acceptance Rate: 25% (606/2424)
  4. Toward Accessible Health and Fitness Tracking for People with Mobility Impairments.
    Meethu Malu and Leah Findlater. Proceedings of Pervasive Health 2016
    Acceptance Rate: 35% (30/86)
  5. Personalized, Wearable Control of a Head-mounted Display for Users with Upper Body Motor Impairments.
    Meethu Malu and Leah Findlater. Proceedings of CHI 2015
    Acceptance Rate: 23% (486/2120)
  6. Understanding Child-Defined gestures and children's mental models for touchscreen tabletop interaction.
    Karen Rust, Meethu Malu, Lisa Anthony, Leah Findlater. Proceedings of IDC 2014
    Acceptance Rate: 31% (18/59)
  7. Interactive and live performance design with children.
    Karen Rust, Elizabeth Foss, Elizabeth Bonsignore, Brenna McNally, Chelsea Hordatt, Meethu Malu,…. Proceedings of IDC 2014
    Acceptance Rate: 31% (18/59)
  8. CHI 2039: speculative research visions.
    Eric P. S. Baumer, … Meethu Malu, …. Proceedings of CHI Extended Abstracts 2014
    Acceptance Rate: 23% (465/2043)
  9. Current and future mobile and wearable device use by people with visual impairments.
    Hanlu Ye, Meethu Malu, Uran Oh, Leah Findlater: Proceedings of CHI 2014
    Acceptance Rate: 23% (465/2043)

Poster Papers

  1. “OK Glass?” A Preliminary Exploration of Google Glass for Persons with Upper Body Motor Impairments.
    Meethu Malu, Leah Findlater. Proceedings of ASSETS 2014
  2. Encouraging personal storytelling by example.
    Meethu Malu, Nikunj Jethi, Dan Cosley. Proceedings of iConference 2012

Workshop and Doctoral Consortium

  1. Designing and Implementing Accessible Wearable Interactions for People with Motor Impairments.
    Meethu Malu. Doctoral Consortium of ASSETS 2017
  2. Popcore: A system for network-centric recommendations.
    Amit Sharma, Meethu Malu, and Dan Cosley. Proceedings of 3rd Workshop on Recommender Systems and the Social Web

Research Projects

Participant pressing the right bezel of the smartwatch

Accessibility of Smartwatches

What are the advantages and disadvantages of smartwatches for people with motor impairments? To what extent are smartwatches accessible to this group? How can we design accessible smartwatch interactions for this group?

Screenshot of the website PatientsLikeMe used as a design probe

Sharing Activity Data

What are the implications of sharing activity data that is automatically tracked by existing wearables with therapists and peers with mobility impairments? How can we design technology to allow sharing of activity data?

Fitbit One and Moov used during the assessment of existing wearables

Accessibility of Fitness Trackers

To what extent are existing activity tracking wearables and mobile apps accessible to people with motor impairments? How can we design accessible activity tracking technologies for this group?

Participant using Google Glass with wearable touchpads that were placed on his thigh

Accessibility of Head-mounted Displays

What are the potential advantages and disadvantages of head-mounted displays for people with motor impairments? To what extent are HMDs like Google Glass accessible to this group?

Talks

  1. Serendipitous Discovery for Teens and Young Adults.
    Intern-a-Palooza, Google, New York City, NY Aug 2017
  2. Sharing Automatically Tracked Activity Data: Implications for Therapists and People with Mobility Impairments.
    Pervasive Health 2017, Barcelona, Spain, May 2017
  3. Toward Accessible Health and Fitness Tracking for People with Mobility Impairments.
    Guest Lecturer for “Introduction to Research Methods” course at University of Maryland, College Park Nov 2016
  4. Interactive Computational Tools for Accessibility: Health and Fitness Tracking for Mobility Impaired Users.
    Diversity in Computing Summit, College Park, Maryland Nov 2016
  5. Toward Accessible Health and Fitness Tracking for People with Mobility Impairments.
    33rd Annual HCIL Symposium, College Park, Maryland May 2016
  6. Toward Accessible Health and Fitness Tracking for People with Mobility Impairments.
    Pervasive Health 2016, Cancun, Mexico, May 2016
  7. Personalized, Wearable Control of a Head-mounted Display for Users with Upper Body Motor Impairments.
    CHI 2015, Seoul, South Korea Apr 2015
  8. “OK Glass?” A Preliminary Exploration of Google Glass for Persons with Upper Body Motor Impairments.
    Maryland Center for Women in Computing (MCWIC), UMD Nov 2014
  9. “OK Glass?” A Preliminary Exploration of Google Glass for Persons with Upper Body Motor Impairments.
    ASSETS 2014, Rochester, NY Oct 2014
  10. Current and Future Mobile and Wearable Device Use by People with Visual Impairments.
    31st Annual HCIL Symposium, College Park, Maryland