Curriculum Vitae — Patrick A. Carrington

Academic Appointments

Associate Professor
Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

2025–present
Assistant Professor
Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

2019–2025
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Supervisor: Jeffrey P. Bigham

2017–2019

Education

Ph.D., Human-Centered Computing
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland

2017
M.S., Human-Centered Computing
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland

2012
B.S., Information Systems
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland
Cum Laude
Information Systems Certificate: Web Development

2011

Honors and Awards

Sara Kiesler Faculty Fellowship — Human-Computer Interaction Institute

2025–2026

Best Paper Honorable Mention · HRI 2026 · DIS 2021 · CHI 2020 · ASSETS 2018 · CHI 2014
Best Paper Award · TVCG 2026 · ASSETS 2024 · CHI 2019

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Frank Elavsky, Chieri Nnadozie, Lucas Nadolskis, Patrick Carrington, Dominik Moritz. Skeleton: Visual Authoring of Non-visual Data Experiences. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG 2026). IEEE. 2026.Best Paper Award
Frank Elavsky, Marita Vindedal, Ted Gies, Patrick Carrington, Dominik Moritz, Øystein Moseng. Toward Softerware: Enabling Personalization of Interactive Data Representations for Users With Disabilities. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 2026. DOI — “Toward Softerware: Enabling Personalization of Interactive Data Representations for Users With Disabilities”
Patrick Carrington, Jian-Ming Chang, Kevin Chang, Catherine Hornback, Amy Hurst, Shaun K. Kane. The Gest-Rest Family: Exploring input possibilities for Wheelchair armrests. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS). ACM. 2016. DOI — “The Gest-Rest Family: Exploring input possibilities for Wheelchair armrests”

Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers

Yunzhi Li, Patrick Carrington. Not Just Pockets: Understanding Phone-Carrying Behaviors of Wheelchair Users for Mobile Context-Awareness. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (MobileHCI 2026). ACM. 2026.(acceptance 37.8%)
Xianjing Han, Bin Zhu, Shiqi Hu, Franklin Mingzhe Li, Patrick Carrington, Roger Zimmermann, Jingjing Chen. OSCBench: Benchmarking Object State Change in Text-to-Video Generation. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026), Volume 1: Long Papers. ACL. 2026.(acceptance 18.9%) DOI — “OSCBench: Benchmarking Object State Change in Text-to-Video Generation”
JiWoong Jang, Patrick Carrington, Andrew Begel. The Three Praxes Framework: A Thematic Review and Map of Social Accessibility Research. Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026). ACM. 2026.(acceptance 25%) DOI — “The Three Praxes Framework: A Thematic Review and Map of Social Accessibility Research”
Atieh Taheri, Hamza El Alaoui, Patrick Carrington, Jeffrey P. Bigham. “I followed what felt right, not what I was told”: Autonomy, Coaching, and Recognizing Bias Through AI-Mediated Dialogue. Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026). ACM. 2026.(acceptance 25%) DOI — “I followed what felt right, not what I was told”: Autonomy, Coaching, and Recognizing Bias Through AI-Mediated Dialogue
JiWoong Jang, Patrick Carrington, Andrew Begel. From Autonomy to Sovereignty: A New Telos for Socially Assistive Technology. Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026). ACM. 2026.(acceptance 25%) DOI — “From Autonomy to Sovereignty: A New Telos for Socially Assistive Technology”
Abena Boadi-Agyemang, Sanika Moharana, Cynthia L. Bennett, Elizabeth J Carter, Patrick Carrington, Aaron Steinfeld. Pluriversal Approach to Co-designing Delivery Robots with People with Disabilities. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2026). ACM/IEEE. 2026.Best Paper Honorable Mention(acceptance 23.8%) DOI — “Pluriversal Approach to Co-designing Delivery Robots with People with Disabilities”
Lotus Zhang, Zhuohao (Jerry) Zhang, Gina Clepper, Franklin Mingzhe Li, Patrick Carrington, Jacob O. Wobbrock, Leah Findlater. VizXpress: Towards Expressive Visual Content by Blind Creators Through AI Support. Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2025). ACM. 2025.(acceptance 28%) DOI — “VizXpress: Towards Expressive Visual Content by Blind Creators Through AI Support”
Franklin Mingzhe Li, Akihiko Oharazawa, Chloe Zhu, Misty Fan, Daisuke Sato, Chieko Asakawa, Patrick Carrington. More than One Step at a Time: Designing Procedural Feedback for Non-Visual Makeup Routines. Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2025). ACM. 2025.(acceptance 28%) DOI — “More than One Step at a Time: Designing Procedural Feedback for Non-Visual Makeup Routines”
Franklin Mingzhe Li, Kaitlyn Ng, Bin Zhu, Patrick Carrington. Exploring Object Status Recognition for Recipe Progress Tracking in Non-Visual Cooking. Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2025). ACM. 2025.(acceptance 28%) DOI — “Exploring Object Status Recognition for Recipe Progress Tracking in Non-Visual Cooking”
Atieh Taheri, Misha Sra, Patrick Carrington, Jeffrey P. Bigham. Designing Through Lived Experience: Reflections on Control, Embodiment, and Social Bias in Accessibility Research. Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2025). ACM. 2025.(acceptance 28%) DOI — “Designing Through Lived Experience: Reflections on Control, Embodiment, and Social Bias in Accessibility Research”
Zheng Ning, Leyang Li, Daniel Killough, Jooyoung Seo, Patrick Carrington, Yapeng Tian, Yuhang Zhao, Franklin Mingzhe Li, Toby Jia-Jun Li. AROMA: Mixed-Initiative AI Assistance for Non-Visual Cooking by Grounding Multimodal Information Between Reality and Videos. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2025). ACM. 2025.(acceptance 22.2%) DOI — “AROMA: Mixed-Initiative AI Assistance for Non-Visual Cooking by Grounding Multimodal Information Between Reality and Videos”
Franklin Mingzhe Li, Kaitlyn Ng, Bin Zhu, Patrick Carrington. OSCAR: Object Status and Contextual Awareness for Recipes to Support Non-Visual Cooking. Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI EA 2025). ACM. 2025.(acceptance 24.9%) DOI — “OSCAR: Object Status and Contextual Awareness for Recipes to Support Non-Visual Cooking”
Yunzhi Li, Vimal Mollyn, Kuang Yuan, Patrick Carrington. WheelPoser: Sparse-IMU Based Body Pose Estimation for Wheelchair Users. Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2024). ACM. 2024.Best Paper Award(acceptance 29.7%) DOI — “WheelPoser: Sparse-IMU Based Body Pose Estimation for Wheelchair Users”
Noor Hammad, Frank Elavsky, Sanika Moharana, Jessie Chen, Seyoung Lee, Patrick Carrington, Dominik Moritz, Jessica Hammer, Erik Harpstead. Exploring The Affordances of Game-Aware Streaming to Support Blind and Low Vision Viewers: A Design Probe Study. Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2024). ACM. 2024.(acceptance 29.7%) DOI — “Exploring The Affordances of Game-Aware Streaming to Support Blind and Low Vision Viewers: A Design Probe Study”
Franklin Mingzhe Li, Ashley Wang, Patrick Carrington, Shaun K. Kane. A Recipe for Success? Exploring Strategies for Improving Non-Visual Access to Cooking Instructions. Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2024). ACM. 2024.(acceptance 29.7%) DOI — “A Recipe for Success? Exploring Strategies for Improving Non-Visual Access to Cooking Instructions”
Sanika Moharana, Gloria Washington, Patrick Carrington, Christina N. Harrington. Towards Contextualizing Embodiment of Intelligent Systems. Intelligent Systems Conference 2024.(acceptance 33.8%) DOI — “Towards Contextualizing Embodiment of Intelligent Systems”
JiWoong Jang, Sanika Moharana, Patrick Carrington, Andrew Begel. “It’s the only thing I can trust”: Envisioning Large Language Model Use by Autistic Workers for Communication Assistance. Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024). ACM. 2024.(acceptance 26.4%) DOI — “It’s the only thing I can trust”: Envisioning Large Language Model Use by Autistic Workers for Communication Assistance
Franklin Mingzhe Li, Michael Xieyang Liu, Shaun K. Kane, Patrick Carrington. A Contextual Inquiry of People with Vision Impairments in Cooking. Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024). ACM. 2024.(acceptance 26.4%) DOI — “A Contextual Inquiry of People with Vision Impairments in Cooking”
Siyou Pei, Alexander Chen, Chen Chen, Franklin Mingzhe Li, Megan Fozzard, Hao-Yun Chi, Nadir Weibel, Patrick Carrington, Yang Zhang. Embodied Exploration: Facilitating Remote Accessibility Assessment for Wheelchair Users with Virtual Reality. Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2023). ACM. 2023.(acceptance 30%) DOI — “Embodied Exploration: Facilitating Remote Accessibility Assessment for Wheelchair Users with Virtual Reality”
Franklin Mingzhe Li, Lotus Zhang, Maryam Bandukda, Abigale Stangl, Kristen Shinohara, Leah Findlater, Patrick Carrington. Understanding Visual Arts Experiences of Blind People. Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2023). ACM. 2023.(acceptance 27.6%) DOI — “Understanding Visual Arts Experiences of Blind People”
Yunzhi Li, Franklin Mingzhe Li, Patrick Carrington. Breaking the “Inescapable” Cycle of Pain: Supporting Wheelchair Users’ Upper Extremity Health Awareness and Management with Tracking Technologies. Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2023). ACM. 2023.(acceptance 27.6%) DOI — “Breaking the “Inescapable” Cycle of Pain: Supporting Wheelchair Users’ Upper Extremity Health Awareness and Management with Tracking Technologies”
Franklin Mingzhe Li, Cheng Lu, Zhicong Lu, Patrick Carrington, Khai N. Truong. An Exploration of Captioning Practices and Challenges of Individual Content Creators on YouTube for People with Hearing Impairments. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction; Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2022). ACM. 2022.(acceptance 26%) DOI — “An Exploration of Captioning Practices and Challenges of Individual Content Creators on YouTube for People with Hearing Impairments”
Franklin Mingzhe Li, Michael Xieyang Liu, Yang Zhang, Patrick Carrington. Freedom to Choose: Understanding Input Modality Preferences of People with Upper-body Motor Impairments for Activities of Daily Living. Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2022). ACM. 2022.(acceptance 26.5%) DOI — “Freedom to Choose: Understanding Input Modality Preferences of People with Upper-body Motor Impairments for Activities of Daily Living”
Nikolas Martelaro, Patrick Carrington, Sarah Fox, Jodi Forlizzi. Designing an Inclusive Mobile App for People with Disabilities to Independently Use Autonomous Vehicles. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI 2022). ACM. 2022.(acceptance 38%) DOI — “Designing an Inclusive Mobile App for People with Disabilities to Independently Use Autonomous Vehicles”
Franklin Mingzhe Li, Franchesca Spektor, Meng Xia, Mina Huh, Peter Cederberg, Yuqi Gong, Kristen Shinohara, Patrick Carrington. “It Feels Like Taking a Gamble”: Exploring Perceptions, Practices, and Challenges of Using Makeup and Cosmetics for People with Visual Impairments. Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2022). ACM. 2022.(acceptance 24.7%) DOI — “It Feels Like Taking a Gamble”: Exploring Perceptions, Practices, and Challenges of Using Makeup and Cosmetics for People with Visual Impairments
Franklin Mingzhe Li, Jamie Dorst, Peter Cederberg, Patrick Carrington. Non-Visual Cooking: Exploring Practices and Challenges of Meal Preparation by People with Visual Impairments. Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2021). ACM. 2021.(acceptance 29%) DOI — “Non-Visual Cooking: Exploring Practices and Challenges of Meal Preparation by People with Visual Impairments”
Rushil Khurana, Ashley Wang, Patrick Carrington. Beyond Adaptive Sports: Challenges & Opportunities to Improve Accessibility and Analytics. Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2021). ACM. 2021.(acceptance 29%) DOI — “Beyond Adaptive Sports: Challenges & Opportunities to Improve Accessibility and Analytics”
Cynthia L. Bennett, Emily Ackerman, Bonnie Fan, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Patrick Carrington, Sarah Fox. Accessibility and The Crowded Sidewalk: Micromobility’s Impact on Public Space. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2021). ACM. 2021.Best Paper Honorable Mention(acceptance 24.5%) DOI — “Accessibility and The Crowded Sidewalk: Micromobility’s Impact on Public Space”
Xingyu Liu, Patrick Carrington, Xiang'Anthony' Chen, Amy Pavel. What Makes Videos Accessible to Blind and Visually Impaired People?. Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2021). ACM. 2021.(acceptance 26.3%) DOI — “What Makes Videos Accessible to Blind and Visually Impaired People?”
Saiganesh Swaminathan, Yellina Yim, Scott E. Hudson, Cynthia L. Bennett, Patrick Carrington. From Tactile to NavTile: Opportunities and Challenges with Multi-Modal Feedback for Guiding Surfaces during Non-Visual Navigation. Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2021). ACM. 2021.(acceptance 26.3%) DOI — “From Tactile to NavTile: Opportunities and Challenges with Multi-Modal Feedback for Guiding Surfaces during Non-Visual Navigation”
Cole Gleason, Amy Pavel, Emma McCamey, Christina Low, Patrick Carrington, Kris M. Kitani, Jeffrey P. Bigham. Twitter A11y: A Browser Extension to Make Twitter Images Accessible. Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2020). ACM. 2020.Best Paper Honorable Mention(acceptance 24.3%) DOI — “Twitter A11y: A Browser Extension to Make Twitter Images Accessible”
Cole Gleason, Amy Pavel, Xingyu Liu, Patrick Carrington, Lydia B. Chilton, Jeffrey P. Bigham. Making Memes Accessible. Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2019). ACM. 2019.(acceptance 26%) DOI — “Making Memes Accessible”
Megan Hofmann, Kristin Williams, Toni Kaplan, Stephanie Valencia, Gabriella Han, Scott E. Hudson, Jennifer Mankoff, Patrick Carrington. “Occupational Therapy is Making”: Design Iteration and Digital Fabrication in Occupational Therapy. Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2019). ACM. 2019.Best Paper Award(acceptance 23.8%) DOI — “Occupational Therapy is Making”: Design Iteration and Digital Fabrication in Occupational Therapy
Cole Gleason, Patrick Carrington, Cameron Cassidy, Meredith Ringel Morris, Kris M. Kitani, Jeffrey P. Bigham. “It’s almost like they’re trying to hide it”: How User-Provided Image Descriptions Have Failed to Make Twitter Accessible. Proceedings of the Web Conference (WWW 2019). 2019.(acceptance 18%) DOI — “It’s almost like they’re trying to hide it”: How User-Provided Image Descriptions Have Failed to Make Twitter Accessible
Patrick Carrington, Gierad Laput, Jeffrey P. Bigham. Exploring the Data Tracking and Sharing Preferences of Wheelchair Athletes. Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2018). ACM. 2018.Best Paper Honorable Mention(acceptance 26%) DOI — “Exploring the Data Tracking and Sharing Preferences of Wheelchair Athletes”
Lucas Rosenblatt, Patrick Carrington, Kotaro Hara, Jeffrey P. Bigham. Vocal Programming for People with Upper-Body Motor Impairments. W4A 2018. 2018.(acceptance 58%) DOI — “Vocal Programming for People with Upper-Body Motor Impairments”
Patrick Carrington, Denzel Ketter, Amy Hurst. Understanding Fatigue and Stamina Management Opportunities and Challenges in Wheelchair Basketball. Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2017). ACM. 2017.(acceptance 22%) DOI — “Understanding Fatigue and Stamina Management Opportunities and Challenges in Wheelchair Basketball”
Patrick Carrington, Kevin Chang, Helena Mentis, Amy Hurst. “But, I don’t take steps”: Examining the Inaccessibility of Fitness Trackers for Wheelchair Athletes. Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2015). ACM. 2015.(acceptance 24%) DOI — “But, I don’t take steps”: Examining the Inaccessibility of Fitness Trackers for Wheelchair Athletes
Patrick Carrington, Shannon Hosmer, Tom Yeh, Amy Hurst, Shaun K. Kane. “Like This, But Better”: Supporting Novices’ Design and Fabrication of 3D Models Using Existing Objects. Proceedings of iConference 2015. 2015.(acceptance 36%)
Patrick Carrington, Amy Hurst, Shaun K. Kane. The Gest-Rest: A Pressure-Sensitive Chairable Input Pad for Power Wheelchair Armrests. Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2014). ACM. 2014.(acceptance 26%) DOI — “The Gest-Rest: A Pressure-Sensitive Chairable Input Pad for Power Wheelchair Armrests”
Patrick Carrington, Amy Hurst, Shaun K. Kane. Wearables and Chairables: Inclusive Design of Mobile Input and Output Techniques for Power Wheelchair Users. Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2014). ACM. 2014.Best Paper Honorable Mention(acceptance 23%) DOI — “Wearables and Chairables: Inclusive Design of Mobile Input and Output Techniques for Power Wheelchair Users”

Peer-Reviewed Conference Abstracts and Posters

Brandon Woodard, Lucas Li, Jillian Bogosian, Patrick Carrington, Christian Eckhardt, Joseph LaViola. Metaphorically Spatial: A Formative Design Exploration of Lightweight Smartphone Audio Guidance. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI 2026). ACM. 2026. DOI — “Metaphorically Spatial: A Formative Design Exploration of Lightweight Smartphone Audio Guidance”
JiWoong Jang, Yunzhi Li, Patrick Carrington. “I Should Feel Like I’m In Control”: Understanding Expectations, Concerns, and Motivations for the Use of Autonomous Navigation on Wheelchairs. Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2022). ACM. 2022. DOI — “I Should Feel Like I’m In Control”: Understanding Expectations, Concerns, and Motivations for the Use of Autonomous Navigation on Wheelchairs
Christina Low, Emma McCamey, Cole Gleason, Patrick Carrington, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Amy Pavel. Twitter A11y: A Browser Extension to Describe Images. Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2019). ACM. 2019. DOI — “Twitter A11y: A Browser Extension to Describe Images”
Patrick Carrington, Amy Hurst, Shaun K. Kane. How Power Wheelchair Users Choose Computing Devices. Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2013). ACM. 2013. DOI — “How Power Wheelchair Users Choose Computing Devices”
Patrick Carrington, Ravi Kuber, Lisa Anthony, Amy Hurst, Sapna Prasad. Developing an interface to support procedural memory training using a participatory-based approach. Proceedings of BCS HCI 2012. 2012. DOI — “Developing an interface to support procedural memory training using a participatory-based approach”

Workshop Organization

Riku Arakawa, Franklin Mingzhe Li, Nandi Zhang, Mina Huh, Amy Pavel, Ryo Suzuki, Patrick Carrington, Yukang Yan. Accessible Cyber-Physical Activities. UIST 2025 Adjunct 2025. DOI — “Accessible Cyber-Physical Activities”
Diogo Branco, Patrick Carrington, Silvia Del Din, Afsaneh Doryab, Hristijan Gjoreski, Tiago Guerreiro, Roisin McNaney, Kyle Montague, Alisha Pradhan, Andre Rodrigues, Julio Vega. Wild by Design: Workshop on Designing Ubiquitous Health Monitoring Technologies for Challenging Environments. UbiComp/ISWC 2021 Adjunct 2021. DOI — “Wild by Design: Workshop on Designing Ubiquitous Health Monitoring Technologies for Challenging Environments”
Cole Gleason, Patrick Carrington, Lydia B. Chilton, Benjamin M. Gorman, Hernisa Kacorri, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Meredith Ringel Morris, Garreth W. Tigwell, Shaomei Wu. Addressing the Accessibility of Social Media. CSCW 2019 Companion 2019. DOI — “Addressing the Accessibility of Social Media”

Workshop Papers

Sanika Moharana, Patrick Carrington, Christina N. Harrington. Inclusive Design of CUIs Across the Intersection of Race and Disability. ACM CHI 2023 Workshop. CUI@CHI: Inclusive Design of CUIs Across Modalities and Mobilities. 2023.
Saiganesh Swaminathan, Stephanie Valencia, Patrick Carrington. An Approach to Last Meter Problem: Designing and Deploying Low-Cost, Custom Fabricated Interactive Tactile Tiles for Navigation and Spatial Awareness. CHI 2019 Workshop on Hacking Blind Navigation 2019.
Patrick Carrington, Amy Hurst, Shaun K. Kane. Designing Chairables: Assistive Augmentations to Support Power Wheelchair Users. Workshop on Assistive Augmentation in Conjunction with CHI 2014. 2014.
Lisa Anthony, Patrick Carrington, Peng Chu, Jianwei Lai, Andrew Sears. Gesture Dynamics: Features Sensitive to Task Difficulty and Correlated with Physiological Sensors. Proceedings of ICMI MMCogEmS 2011. 2011.

Doctoral Colloquia

Patrick Carrington. Developing a Chairable Computing Platform to Support Power Wheelchair Users. ASSETS 2014 Doctoral Colloquium; published in ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing (2015) 2015. DOI — “Developing a Chairable Computing Platform to Support Power Wheelchair Users”

Dissertation

Patrick Carrington. Chairable Computing. Dissertation. University of Maryland, Baltimore County. 2017.

Editorial Reviewed Works

Patrick Carrington, Eliezer Bernart. Computer Science and Sports: the digital evolution of physical competition. ACM XRDS. Volume 25 Issue 4, Summer 2019 2019. DOI — “Computer Science and Sports: the digital evolution of physical competition”
Patrick Carrington, Gierad Laput, Jeffrey P. Bigham. SpokeSense: developing a real-time sensing platform for wheelchair sports. ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing, Issue 124 2019. DOI — “SpokeSense: developing a real-time sensing platform for wheelchair sports”
Jeffrey P. Bigham, Patrick Carrington. Learning from the Front: People with Disabilities as Early Adopters of AI. HCIC 2018. 2018.
Shaun K. Kane, Amy Hurst, Erin Buehler, Patrick Carrington, Michele Williams. Collaboratively Designing Assistive Technology. ACM Interactions. 21, 2 (March 2014). 2014. DOI — “Collaboratively Designing Assistive Technology”

Non-Refereed Publications and Tech Reports

Erica Principe Cruz, Lynn Kirabo, Patrick Carrington, Jessica Hammer. Building Anti-Racist Futures at the CMU HCII: Recruiting BIPOC Graduate Students: Virtual Recruitment Event Design. BIPOC Literary Journal: The Colors We Carry. BIPOC at Carnegie Mellon University. 2021.
Lisa Anthony, Patrick Carrington, Peng Chu, Chris Kidd, Jianwei Lai, Andrew Sears. Detecting Events of Interest with Physiological Sensors in a Real-World Email Search Task. Technical Report UMBC-IS-TR-007 2011.

Invited Talks and Panels

Creating “Everyday” Accessible Experiences
SCIS Research Seminar, Singapore Management University

March 2026
Creating “Everyday” Accessible Experiences
Informatics Seminar Series, UC Irvine

January 2026
Choosing Your Own Adventure: Enabling Accessible Experiences
Information Science Seminar Series, University of Colorado, Boulder

November 2023
Understanding Everyday Challenges to Create Accessible Experiences
OurCS Virtual Diversity Conference Workshop

March 2023
Understanding Everyday Challenges to Create Accessible Experiences
Workshop on Bridging AI and Disability

March 2023
AI in the Accessible Home
AAAI Workshop on AI Assisting Daily Tasks

February 2023
Wearable AT and Logging
NIDILRR RERC Meeting

November 2022
An Accessibility Researcher’s Origin Story
PROMISE Seminar Series

April 2022
From Content to Intent: Designing Accessible UX on Social Media
University of Pittsburgh, DBMI Seminar Series

March 2022
Designing Systems to Enable Accessible User Experiences
uxWaterloo

March 2022
Building Chairables: Designing Technologies for Accessibility and Engagement
BostonCHI

May 2021
Building Chairables: Designing Accessible Mobile Computing Experiences
DUB Seminar Series, University of Washington

March 2021
Building Chairables: Designing Technologies for Accessibility and Engagement
Human-Computer Interaction Seminar Series, Stanford University

January 2021
Building Chairables: Designing Accessible Mobile Computing Experiences
MISC Seminar Series, University of Michigan

November 2020
Building Chairables for Sports
Computer Science Seminar Series, James Madison University

November 2019
Chairable Computing: Designing Accessible Computing Experiences for Wheelchair Users
The iSchool Inclusion Institute (i3), University of Pittsburgh

June 2019
Digital Access for People with Motor Impairments
Digital Access Training: Universal Access Committee, Carnegie Mellon University

February 2018
Chairable Computing: Designing Mobile and Wearable Tech for Wheelchair Users
Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

May 2017
Designing Accessible Interactive Systems for People with Mobility Impairments
HCI Seminar at Rochester Institute of Technology

November 2014
HCI Today: Supporting Ability and Performance through Technology panel
HCII 25th Panel: HCI Today

October 2019
What People with Disabilities Can Teach Us About AI panel
HCIC 2018 Panel: AI and HCI, New Interaction Modalities

June 2018

Teaching

05-391/891 · Designing Human-Centered Software
Carnegie Mellon University
Fall 2026 · Spring 2026 · Spring 2025 · Fall 2024 · Spring 2024 · Fall 2023 · Spring 2023 · Fall 2022
05-332/632 formerly 05-499/899 · Introduction to Accessibility and Assistive Technology
Carnegie Mellon University
Fall 2025 · Fall 2024 · Spring 2022 · Fall 2021 · Spring 2021
05-430/630 · Programming Usable Interfaces
Carnegie Mellon University
Fall 2020 · Spring 2020
IS 101 · Introduction to Computer Based Systems
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Spring 2015 · Fall 2014

Supervision and Advising

Postdoctoral fellows

Atieh Taheri — (with Jeffrey Bigham) · Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow

2024–present

Doctoral advisees

Ezra Awumey — advisor

2024–present
JiWoong Jang — co-advisor · (with Andrew Begel)

2022–present
Sanika Moharana — co-advisor · (with Christina Harrington)

2022–present
Yunzhi Li — advisor

2021–present
Frank Elavsky — co-advisor · (with Dominik Moritz)

2021–2026
Franklin Mingzhe Li — advisor

2020–2026

Doctoral committees

Abena Boadi-Agyemang

2025–2026
Florian Lang — LMU Munich

2025
Maggie Collier

2024–2025
Tamanna Motahar — University of Utah

2022–2024
Reza Moradinezhad — Drexel University

2021–2022
Megan Hoffmann

2021–2022
Kristin Williams

2021–2022
Cole Gleason

2019–2020

Master's students

Chloe Zhu — mentor · MHCI

2025–present
Riya Mody — mentor · MHCI

2024–2025
Ashley Wang — thesis advisor · CS

2022–2023
Peter Cederberg — mentor · Interaction Design

2020–2022
Isabel Ngan — mentor · MHCI

2021
Simran Jobanputra — mentor · MHCI

2019–2020

Visiting researchers

Owais Yousuf — Post-baccalaureate · George Mason University · Visiting researcher, mechanical engineering

2026–present
Brandon Woodard — Ph.D. · Brown University · Visiting researcher

2022–2023

Undergraduate researchers

Kaitlyn Ng

2024–2026
Misty Fan

2025
Tatyana Cruz — CMU ECE

2025
Ashley Fong — University of California, Berkeley · Summer REU

2024
Areen Khalaila — Brandeis University · Summer REU

2024
Rachel Sadeh — Summer REU, continuing as a research assistant

2022–2023
JiWoong Jang

2021–2022
Yuqi Gong

2021–2022
Ashley Wang

2020–2022
Jamie Dorst

2021
Juan Garza — Summer REU

2021
Mei-Lian Vader — Summer REU

2021
Yellina Yim

2020–2021
Nali Huynh

2020–2021
Andrew Chuang

2020
Xingyu Liu

2019–2020
Christina Low — Summer REU

2019–2020
Emma McCamey — Summer REU

2019–2020
Cameron Cassidy — Summer REU

2019
Toni Kaplan

2019
Elena Deng

2019
Stephanie Wang — CMU · Statistics and ML, Summer REU

2018
Adrian Jenkins — Hampton University · Computer Science, Summer REU

2018
Lucas Rosenblatt — Summer REU

2017–2018
Denzel Ketter — UMBC

2017
Catherine Hornback — UMBC

2015–2016
Jian-Ming Chang — UMBC

2015–2016
Kevin Chang — UMBC

2015–2016

Academic and Professional Service

University

Universal Access Committee

2026–present
CMU-Portugal Program Selection Committee

2025–2026

Departmental

Accessibility Lunch Seminar (Co-Organizer)

2019–present
HCII Ph.D. Admissions Committee Co-Chair

2021–2026
HCII Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee (BLM Subcommittee Chair)

2020–2021
HCII Undergraduate Admissions Committee

2020
HCII Ph.D. Admissions Committee

2020

Program committee

ASSETS 2026, Program Committee

2026
CHI 2024, Papers Program Committee

2024
ASSETS 2024, Program Committee

2024
ASSETS 2023, Program Committee

2023
CHI 2023, Papers Program Committee

2023
ASSETS 2022, Program Committee

2022
ASSETS 2020, Program Committee

2020
CHI 2019, Papers Program Committee

2019
Pervasive Health 2019, Technical Program Committee

2019
ASSETS 2019, Program Committee

2019
ASSETS 2018, Program Committee

2018
CHI 2018, Papers Program Committee

2018
Pervasive Health 2018, Technical Program Committee

2018
Pervasive Health 2017, Technical Program Committee

2017
Mobile HCI 2017, Late Breaking Work Associate Chair

2017
ASSETS 2015, Program Committee

2015

Reviewing

Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT)

2021–2024
User Interface Software and Technologies (UIST)

2018–2024
Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

2018–2024
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)

2013–2024
International Web for All Conference (W4A)

2020–2022
Designing Interactive Systems (DIS)

2018
International Symposium on Wearable Computing (ISWC)

2017
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS)

2016–2017
SIGACCESS Conference on Accessible Computing (ASSETS) Posters

2015

Organizing

CSCW 2027, Accessibility Co-Chair

2027
CSCW 2026, Accessibility Co-Chair

2026
ASSETS 2025, Student Research Competition Co-Chair

2025
ASSETS 2023, Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair

2023
ASSETS 2021, Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair

2021
Human-Computer Interaction Consortium (HCIC) 2021, Co-Chair

2021
UIST 2019, Diversity Chair

2019
ACM Collective Intelligence 2019, Accessibility Chair

2019
ASSETS 2019, Local Arrangements Chair

2019
CHI 2018 Organizing Committee, Student Volunteer Co-Chair

2018
CHI 2017 Organizing Committee, Student Volunteer Co-Chair

2017

Student volunteer

ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)

2013–2016
Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)

2014–2015
International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp)

2014
User Interface Software and Technologies (UIST)

2012

Other

ACM XRDS Magazine, Guest Editor

2019
ACM ASSETS, Session Chair

2017–2018
UMES Regional Research Symposium, Invited Moderator

2017

Community Service and Outreach

PROMISE AGEP: Summer Success Institute — Panelist

August 2020
CampBioE @ University of Pittsburgh “STEM Careers” — Panelist

August 2018
National Wheelchair Basketball Tournament — Operations Committee

2016–2018
Maryland Science Center Gadgets and Gears Day — Exhibitor · 800 attendees

2017
UMBC 50th Anniversary Celebration PAD Lab Maker Exhibit — Exhibitor · 2,000 attendees

2016
Maryland Celebration of the 26th Anniversary of the ADA — Exhibitor · 300 attendees

2016
UMBC Exhibit at Mini-MakerFaire — Organizer

September 2013
NSF LSAMP Bridge to Doctorate Program — Peer Mentor

2013–2017
IS Dept. Ph.D. Day “How to be a Successful Ph.D. Student” — Panelist

February 2014

Press and Blog Mentions

Williams, M.. Virtually Accessible: HCII Researchers Ensure AR, VR Technologies Work for Everyone. SCS News. link — “Virtually Accessible: HCII Researchers Ensure AR, VR Technologies Work for Everyone”

2024
Spice, B.. Accessing Recipe Information Without Looking: SCS Researchers Gain Cooking Insights From People With Low Vision. SCS News. link — “Accessing Recipe Information Without Looking: SCS Researchers Gain Cooking Insights From People With Low Vision”

2024
Blazina, E.. CMU team to examine autonomous vehicles for people with disabilities. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. link — “CMU team to examine autonomous vehicles for people with disabilities”

2021
Keppler, N.. ChairJam Puts Spin on Hackathon Concept. cmu.edu. link — “ChairJam Puts Spin on Hackathon Concept”

2019
Harlan, K.. HCII Team Tests Fitness Tracker for Wheelchair Athletes at NWBT. hcii.cmu.edu. link — “HCII Team Tests Fitness Tracker for Wheelchair Athletes at NWBT”

2018
Dubrow, A.. Making the maker movement accessible. NSF.gov. archived copy — “Making the maker movement accessible”

2015
Dougherty, D.. Joe Olsons diy-enabled wheelchair. Makezine Blog. link — “Joe Olsons diy-enabled wheelchair”

2014
Masterson, K.. Launch pad. UMBC Magazine, Winter 2014. archived copy — “Launch pad”

2014

Affiliations and Membership

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)

since 2017
ACM Special Interest Group for Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI)

since 2013
ACM’s Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing (SIGACCESS)

since 2012
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

since 2011
Golden Key Honors Society: UMBC Chapter

since 2010