UX Research · Accessibility
Inclusive Design Lab
Research on how blind and low-vision people discover and engage with urban public art at UW Inclusive Design Lab.
Paper
Urban public art rarely meets museum-grade accessibility — blind and low-vision people are often locked out of how cities tell their stories through art in public space.
Unseen City Canvases: How Blind and Low-Vision People Discover and Engage with Urban Public Art presents findings from interviews and design probes with BLV participants on discovery, navigation, tactile access, and AI-generated descriptions of public artworks.
The work is in submission to ASSETS 2026. An arXiv preprint is available.
Poster
Research showcase
Presented Unseen City Canvases at the HCDE Research Showcase and Create Community Day — two reminders of why I got into research in the first place. Being in a room full of people thinking seriously about accessibility and HCI, getting to contribute to that conversation, and walking researchers, professors, and peers through work that actually matters — that's something I want to keep doing long after this project wraps.
