Selected Publications and Presentations

2026

Kletenik, D., Krupitskaya, M., Onokhina, M., Liu, C., Adler, R. F. (2026). Games, Personas, and Prototyping: Teaching Accessible Design for Cancer Survivors. In Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research (ICER ’26), (pp. 422-438).

Choudhry, A., Mazumder, B., Marks, L. A., Elmenshawy, R., Kletenik, D., Mullen, S., & Adler, R. F. (2026). Creating Opportunities: Co-Designing an mHealth App with Older Adults. In IEEE 29th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD), (pp. 3526-3532).

Uba, E. and Adler, R. F. (2026). May We Know You? Operationalizing Co-Design Within African Communities: A Scoping Review. In IEEE 29th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD), (pp. 3416-3421).

Wang, H., Choudhry, A., Adler, R. F., and Zhou, K. Z. (2026). Simplicity Gone Wrong: Revisiting Implicit Designs for Older Adults. In 59th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), (pp. 4413-4422).

2025

Zhou, Kyrie Zhixuan, Royta Iftakher, Sean P. Mullen, Rachel F. Adler, and Devorah Kletenik. 2025. Toward Designing Accessible and Meaningful Software for Cancer Survivors. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 9, 7, Article CSCW497.

Wang, O., Liu, C., Adler, R. F., Almendral, C., Kletenik, D., McDonagh, D., Oro, B., and Zhou, K. Z. (2025). Teaching Accessibility Across Disciplines: Perspectives from ADA Title II. In Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (pp. 1-5). (Workshop Proposal)

Adler, Rachel F., Jingwen Shan, Jocelyn Sotelo, Daniela Irazu Raudales Reyes, Kevin Baez, Melissa Delgado, Aditi Mathur, Audrey Phillips, Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou, and Susan Magasi. 2025. “Designing an mHealth Prototype for People with Disabilities: Insights from Co-Design and Heuristic Evaluation.” Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology.

Zhou, Kyrie Zhixuan, Chunyu Liu, Yunqi Li, Devorah Kletenik, and Rachel F. Adler. (2025). Beyond swipe and tap: Cultivating mobile accessibility awareness and knowledge in computing disciplines. In American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference (ASEE) – Computers in Education Division (COED).

Liu, Chunyu, Annie Wang, Mithali Iyer, Gwendolyn Slaughter, Allie Bosch, Elizabeth Lodvikov, Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou, Devorah Kletenik, and Rachel F. Adler. “Teaching Accessibility: A Family Workshop for Middle School Students.” In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-8. 2025.

Zhou, Kyrie Zhixuan, Weirui Peng, Yuhan Liu, and Rachel F. Adler. 2025. Exploring the Diversity of Music Experiences for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 9, 2, Article CSCW078. 2025.

Desmond, Jane, and Christopher Lueg. “Shared Worlds, Different Perceptions: The Potentials of High Tech Explorations of Non-human Animal Worlds.” Presented at Living with Animals 2025, Eastern Kentucky University, 2025.

Liu, Chunyu, Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou, Samantha Sy, Elizabeth Lodvikov, Jingwen Shan, Devorah Kletenik, and Rachel F. Adler. “Opening Digital Doors: Early Lessons in Software Accessibility for K-8 Students.” In Proceedings of the 56th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1, pp. 722-728. 2025.

2024

🏆Zhou, Kyrie Zhixuan, Chunyu Liu, Jingwen Shan, Devorah Kletenik, and Rachel F. Adler. “Accessible Adventures: Teaching Accessibility to High School Students Through Games.” Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 61, no. 1 (2024): 457-468. (Honorable Mention Best Long Paper Award).

Zhou, K. Z., Adler, R. F., Almendral, C., Choi, S., Kletenik, D., Oro, B., and Seo J. (2024). Teaching Accessibility in Different Disciplines: Topics, Approaches, Resources, Challenges. In Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (pp. 1-4). (Workshop Proposal)

Adler, Rachel F., Kevin Baez, Melissa Delgado, Daniela Irazu Raudales Reyes, Jocelyn Sotelo, Jingwen Shan, Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou, and Susan Magasi. “mENTER: Co-Designing an mHealth Peer Navigator Intervention for People with Disabilities.” In Proceedings of the 3rd Empathy-Centric Design Workshop: Scrutinizing Empathy Beyond the Individual, pp. 26-33. 2024.