Papers in Refereed Conference and Journal Proceedings

  1. Sohana Akter, Wejdan Al Sarih, Blessy Kalluri, Kopo M. Ramokapane, and Taslima Akter. 2026. "I feel as though my privacy is being violated": Privacy Risks and Barriers in Instant Messaging for Blind and Low-Vision Users. To appear in Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS '26), Hannover, Germany.
  2. God'salvation F. Oguibe, Lauryn Castro Hernandez, Katherine Holloway, Kathy B. Ewoldt, Leslie Cockerill Neely, Taslima Akter, and Wei Wang. 2026. Debugging Support for Students with Blindness and Visual Impairments on Notebook-based Programming Environments. Proceedings of the 57th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2026) V.1. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 776–782.
  3. Taslima Akter, Aparajita S Marathe, Darren Gergle, and Anne Marie Piper. 2025. Beyond Accessibility: Understanding the Ease of Use and Impacts of Digital Collaboration Tools for Blind and Low Vision Workers. In Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2025). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 85, 1–17.
  4. Taslima Akter, Manohar Swaminathan, and Apu Kapadia. 2024. Toward Effective Communication of AI-Based Decisions in Assistive Tools: Conveying Confidence and Doubt to People with Visual Impairments at Accelerated Speech. (Best paper candidate). In Proceedings of the 21st International Web for All Conference (W4A 2024). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 177–189.
  5. Taslima Akter, Yoonha Cha, Isabela Figueira, Stacy M. Branham, and Anne Marie Piper. 2023. "If I'm supposed to be the facilitator, I should be the host": Understanding the Accessibility of Videoconferencing for Blind and Low Vision Meeting Facilitators. In Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2023). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 45, 1–14.

Workshop Papers

  1. Sohana Akter, Wejdan Al Sarih, Blessy Kalluri, Kopo M. Ramokapane, and Taslima Akter. 2026. Beyond Screen and Speech: Tangible Privacy and Security Interfaces for Blind and Low-Vision Instant Messaging. SOUPS 2026 Workshop on Making S&P Graspable: Tangible Privacy and Security Interfaces (TaPSIs).
  2. Abu Noman Md Sakib, Protik Dey, Zijie Zhang, and Taslima Akter. 2026. Explainable AI for Blind and Low-Vision Users: Navigating Trust, Modality, and Interpretability in the Agentic Era. ACM CHI 2026 Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (HCXAI).
  3. Sabid Bin Habib Pias, Alicia Freel, Timothy Trammel, Taslima Akter, Donald Williamson, and Apu Kapadia. 2024. The Drawback of Insight: Detailed Explanations Can Reduce Agreement with XAI. ACM CHI 2024 Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (HCXAI).