Accepted Work
Papers, workshops, posters, and demos (titles and author order subject to change)
Papers
Vanessa Vanessa Schuegerl (Heriot-Watt University)
Feminist activism on social media
Ellie Bernard-Tran (Dalhousie University)
Mapping Canada’s Federal AI Ethics Landscape Through a Deaf Lens: A Pilot Policy Study
Mia Modig and Ellinor Persson (Nationell kvinnojour och stöd på teckenspråk)
Developing Digital Support Lines in Sign Language
Mindy Drapsa (Riksteatern Crea), Henrik Garde (Lund University) and Joel Kankkonen (Teckenbro)
Sign Language Avatar on Stage: Deaf-Led Motion Capture Innovation
Shuxu Huffman, Michaela Okosi, Joe Merino, Paige DeVries, Tifanie Bouchara, Christian Vogler, Abraham Glasser, Raja Kushalnagar (Gallaudet University and Université Paris-Saclay)
XR for Whom? A Critical Review of Extended Reality Research on Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users
Christian Vogler, Shela Atemnkeng, Paige DeVries, and Patrick Boudreault (Gallaudet University)
Toward the Development of Deaf-Centric Text-to-Speech Technology via Participatory Design
Abraham Glasser, Lorna Quandt, Lloyd May, Shela Atemnkeng, Joseph Palagano, Laurel Aichler (Gallaudet University)
Embodied Learning for Deaf Signers: Exploring the Potential of XR and Haptic Technologies
Christian Vogler, Bernard Thompson, Luz Calderon Torres, Lu Ming, James Waller, Mariana Arroyo Chavez, Dante Conway, Raja Kushalnagar
(Gallaudet University)
A Large-Scale Survey of User Ratings of Live TV Captions and ASR-Generated Captions, Compared against Metrics
Alessio di Renzo, Tommaso Lucioli, Luca Lamano, Gabriele Gianfreda, Barbara Pennacchi, Chiara Bonsignori, Eloisa Matina, Olga Capirci (National Research Council CNR, Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies ISTC)
A SignWriting-Annotated Corpus of Italian Sign Language (LIS) for AI-Based Analysis
Patrick Boudreault (Gallaudet University), Florian Méloux (spokhand), Dawnena Key (dozanu innovations)
A Deaf-Centered Approach to International Sign Accessibility Using AI-Generated Avatars
Arlinda Boland (Sam Houston State University)
Deaf Economic Empowerment Through Social Media: A Quantitative Analysis of Language Confidence and Content Sharing
Ayfer Iceloglu (Free University of Brussels)
Social media and social capital among deaf and hard-of-hearing secondary school students in Flanders
Oliver Jayden Suchanek, Lydia Kremslehner, and Katta Spiel (TU Wien)
Accessibility as Prerequisite: Designing a Haptic Art Exhibition Through Deaf and DeafBlind Collaboration
Christopher Kurz (Rochester Institute of Technology, RIT), Michael Vea (College of St. Benilde), Krishneer Sen (Deaf Pacific Consultancy), Noah Agino (New Papua Guinea Deaf Association)
Deaf-Led, Technology-Supported Early Literacy: Preliminary Findings from Project TREE Across Fiji, Papua New Guinea, and the Philippines
Christopher Kurz, Suryo Sahetapy, Ruth C. Reyes (Rochester Institute of Technology, RIT)
Teaching the Teachers: A Self-Study of AI Integration in Deaf Education Teacher Training
Workshops
Patrick J. Graham, Jeff Bravin, Chris Kurz, TJ Sanger II (National Technical Institute for the Deaf and American School for the Deaf)
Virtual Learning in Deaf Education: Lessons Learned from Online Delivery
Maija Koivisto (Helsinki University)
Deaf People’s Contributions to a Just and Sustainable Future
Ralph Raule (Deutschen Gehörlosen-Bund)
Taking Responsibility: The Role of National Deaf Associations in Technological Development – and What Deaf Tech Professionals Can Contribute
Razaq Fakir (Oorbrug OÜ)
Working Between Imperfect Words: Deaf Interpreters' Real World Use of AI Captioning and the Complexities of Trust, Usability, and Autonomy
Ine Martens (Heriot Watt University), Vanessa Schuegerl (Heriot Watt University), and Ulla Sivunen (University of Jyväskylä)
Feeling and experiencing access: exploring the affective side of technology-mediated access (in communicative context)
Posters
Still open for submissionsUlla Sivunen (University of Jyväskylä)
Media use and media environments of young DHH people and their experiences of (in)accessibility in Finland
Lisa Lepp, Dimitar Shterionov, Mirella De Sisto (Tilburg University)
CoCos: A Product of Co-Creation. An Interdisciplinary Approach to Sign Language Machine Translation
Steve Emery (University of Surrey)
AI for Sign Language Technologies - bringing together communities
Neil Fox and Adam Schembri (University of Birmingham)
AI and the Risk to BSL Regional Variation
Carsten Schmidt, Eleftherios Avramidis, Alexander Stricker (alangu GmbH)
Deaf-Driven Quality-Optimized Translation Pipeline for German Sign Language
Demos
Still open for submissionsDawnena Key (dozanü)
PIVOT: A Multi-Modal Web Accessibility Widget for Real-Time Sign Language, Audio, and Text Translation