Human-Centered AI • Accessibility
Selected peer-reviewed work and public research outputs across accessibility, XR, captions, clinical AI, and audio safety.
ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing · Journal article
Khang Dang, Grace Burke, Hamdi Korreshi, Sooyeon Lee
A conceptual framework for making VR musical performances more accessible through spatial, view-dependent, and explorative audio descriptions grounded in blind and low-vision perspectives.
ASSETS 2025 · Conference paper
Lloyd May, Saad Hassan, Khang Dang, Sooyeon Lee, Oliver Alonzo
A workshop contribution and community-building effort focused on ethical, rigorous, and sustainable participant recruitment in disability and accessibility research.
IEEE ISMAR-Adjunct 2025 · Conference demo
Khang Dang, Sooyeon Lee
A Meta Quest demo combining head-pose-based view snapshots, speech recognition, GPT-4o responses, and streamed text-to-speech for on-demand conversational audio description.
Translational Vision Science & Technology · Journal article
Quang Nguyen, Duy-Anh Nguyen, Khang Dang, Siyin Liu, Khai Nguyen, Sophia Y. Wang, Mariya Moosajee, Nikolas Pontikos
A medical AI study evaluating retrieval-augmented generation for ophthalmology question answering across open-source and proprietary large language models.
Frontiers in Computer Science · Journal article
Lloyd May, Michael Clemens, Khang Dang, Keita Ohshiro, Sripathi Sridhar, Pauline Wee, Magdalena Fuentes, Sooyeon Lee, Mark Cartwright
A mixed-methods and literature-review study of non-speech information captioning, user agency, professional practice, and future accessible media tools.
ASSETS 2024 · Conference demo
Khang Dang, Sooyeon Lee
A VR accessibility demonstration using spatial audio description and view-dependent description to support orientation and attention in immersive musical performances.
ASSETS 2024 · Conference paper
Khang Dang, Grace Burke, Hamdi Korreshi, Sooyeon Lee
An interview-based study proposing spatial, view-dependent, and explorative audio description strategies for VR musical performances.
CHI 2024 · Conference paper
Lloyd May, Keita Ohshiro, Khang Dang, Sripathi Sridhar, Jhanvi Pai, Magdalena Fuentes, Sooyeon Lee, Mark Cartwright
An exploratory analysis of non-speech information captioning on YouTube and the accessibility gaps created when automated captioning omits sound beyond speech.
SUI 2023 · Conference paper
Khang Dang, Hamdi Korreshi, Yasir Iqbal, Sooyeon Lee
A mixed-methods study with blind and low-vision participants examining opportunities for accessible VR musical performances.
Sensors · Journal article
Khang Dang, Kehinde Elelu, Tuyen Le, Chau Le
A review of acoustic signal processing and auditory situational awareness for construction safety, motivating AI-supported hearing protection and hazard detection.
ISARC 2020 · Conference paper
Khang Dang, Tuyen Le
A convolutional-neural-network approach for detecting collision hazards from acoustic signals at construction sites.