Khang Dang

Ph.D. Candidate, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Leveraging AI and XR to Enrich Human Experiences through Human-Computer Interaction

What I've Been Up To

August 2024

  • Our demo paper got accepted to ACM SIGACCESS ASSETS’24. Really happy with how it turned out.

June 2024

  • Our technical paper got accepted to ACM SIGACCESS ASSETS’24.

  • Presented a poster at the 2024 XR Access Symposium. It was great to connect with others in the field.

May 2024

  • I’ve passed my PhD Dissertation Proposal. It’s a big step forward, and I’m grateful for the support of my advisor, Dr. Sooyeon Lee, and all the committee members.

  • Passed the IAAP Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC) exam.

  • Attended (virtually) the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. It was packed with interesting ideas.

April 2024

  • For the 2nd time, I assisted postdocs and PhD students at Rutgers University with genomics data management and cloud computing at the Data Carpentry Workshop.

  • Completed the Audio Description Institute (ADI) training with Dr. Joel Snyder and earned my certificate from the American Council of the Blind.

Januaray 2024

  • Our paper was accepted at CHI’24.

September 2024 - This fall, I’ll be teaching IS 247 - Designing the User Experience at NJIT | August 2024 - I finished all units of American Sign Language (ASL) on Lingvano | March 2024 - I completed the Genomic Data Science Specialization from Johns Hopkins | November 2023 - I wrapped up the UX Design Specialization by Google |

September 2024 - This fall, I’ll be teaching IS 247 - Designing the User Experience at NJIT | August 2024 - I finished all units of American Sign Language (ASL) on Lingvano | March 2024 - I completed the Genomic Data Science Specialization from Johns Hopkins | November 2023 - I wrapped up the UX Design Specialization by Google |

Latest Work

ACM SIGACCESS Conference on
Computers and Accessibility -
ASSETS '24

Musical Performances in Virtual Reality with 
Spatial and View-Dependent Audio Descriptions for Blind and Low-Vision Users

The demonstration showcases Spatial AD for a dance performance and View-dependent AD for an instrumental performance within VR-based 360° environments.
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ACM SIGACCESS Conference on
Computers and Accessibility -
ASSETS '24

Towards Accessible Musical Performances in Virtual Reality: Designing a Conceptual Framework for Omnidirectional Audio Descriptions

The study devises strategies for three design concepts of omnidirectional AD (Spatial AD, View-dependent AD, and Explorative AD) tailored to different types of musical performances.
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ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems -
CHI ‘24

Unspoken Sound: 
Identifying Trends in Non-Speech Audio Captioning on YouTube

The study examines the contemporary and historical state of non-speech information (NSI) captioning on YouTube through the creation and exploratory analysis of over 715k videos.
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