Publications

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Journal & Conference Papers

Ability Heuristics for Conducting Accessibility Inspections

Published in CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026

A set of nine accessibility heuristics based in ability-based design for conducting accessibility inspections.

Recommended citation: Claire L. Mitchell, Junhan Kong, Jesse J Martinez, Shaun K. Kane, Amy J. Ko, Alexis Hiniker, Jacob O. Wobbrock. "Ability Heuristics for Conducting Accessibility Inspections." Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 26). In press.

Characterizing “Motor Ability” for Ability-Based Design

Published in ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2024

A conceptual understanding of what motor ability should look like in HCI.

Recommended citation: Claire L. Mitchell, Jacob O. Wobbrock. "Ability Heuristics for Conducting Accessibility Inspections." Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. Article No. 49, Pages 1-15, https://doi.org/10.1145/3663548.3675646

Customized Mid-Air Gestures for Accessibility: A $B Recognizer for Multi-Dimensional Biosignal Gestures

Published in arXiv, 2024

An algorithm for gesture personalization for wearable signals based on the $1 recognizer.

Recommended citation: Momona Yamagami, Claire L. Mitchell, Alexandra A. Portnova-Fahreeva, Junhan Kong, Jennifer Mankoff, Jacob O. Wobbrock. "Customized Mid-Air Gestures for Accessibility: A $B Recognizer for Multi-Dimensional Biosignal Gestures." https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.08402

Prediction of Voice Fundamental Frequency and Intensity from Surface Electromyographic Signals of the Face and Neck

Published in Vibration, 2022

Using electromyography for a continuous prediction of speech prosody.

Recommended citation: Jennifer M. Vojtech, Claire L. Mitchell, Laura Raiff, Joshua C. Kline, Gianluca De Luca. "Prediction of Voice Fundamental Frequency and Intensity from Surface Electromyographic Signals of the Face and Neck." Vibration. https://doi.org/10.3390/vibration5040041

Ability-Based Methods for Personalized Keyboard Generation

Published in Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 2022

Methods for keyboard personalization that are based in an empirical understanding of motor ability.

Recommended citation: Claire L. Mitchell, Gabriel J. Cler, Susan K. Fager, Paola Contessa, Serge H. Roy Gianluca De Luca, Joshua C. Kline, Jennifer M. Vojtech. "Ability-Based Methods for Personalized Keyboard Generation." Multimodal Technologies and Interaction. https://doi.org/10.3390/mti6080067

Workshop Papers

Physiological Signals for Ability-Based Design

Published in PhysioCHI: Towards Best Practices for Integrating Physiological Signals in HCI, 2024

How to integrate physiological signals into ability-based design and beyond.

Recommended citation: Claire L. Mitchell, Jacob O. Wobbrock. "Ability Heuristics for Conducting Accessibility Inspections." Workshop on “Towards Best Practices for Integrating Physiological Signals in HCI (PhysioCHI ’24).” ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24). . Article No. 18.

Claire Mitchell