Saad Hassan

News

• 26 Jul 2026

  🎉 New $899,868 collaborative NSF award, with me as PI: Designing Civic AI to Connect Residents, Communities, and Local Governments. Joint with Aron Culotta, Nicholas Mattei, and colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University.

• 24 Jun 2026

  📃 Two papers and a demo accepted to ASSETS 2026: a scoping review of accessible data visualization research, plus an ASL video comprehension tool and demo led by Chaelin Kim.

• 3 Apr 2026

  📃 Paper on ASL educators’ perspectives on AI accepted to CHI 2026. See you in Barcelona!

• 1 Aug 2025

  📃 Two demos accepted to ASSETS 2025, led by Chaelin Kim and Nazmun Nahar Khanom.

• 25 Jun 2025

  🎉 Our workshop on participant recruitment in accessibility research was accepted to ASSETS 2025.

Publications

2026

ASSETS 2026 · Demo

Supporting Sign Language Video Comprehension through In-Situ Automatic Segmentation and Sign Lookup Tool

Chaelin Kim, Saad Hassan

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ASSETS 2026

A Scoping Review of Human–Computer Interaction Research on the Accessibility of Data Visualizations: New Technologies, Procedures, and Designs

Saad Hassan, Areen Khalaila, Dylan Cashman, Ather Sharif, Rebecca Faust

Preprint

ASSETS 2026

Design and Evaluation of an AI-Based American Sign Language Video Comprehension Tool: Exploring the Benefits and Use of Automatic Segmentation and Sign Lookup

Chaelin Kim, Denise Crochet, Maty Bohacek, Saad Hassan

Preprint

AJPC 2026 · Commentary

Reducing hypertension disparities: The potential role of patient-facing large language models

Farah Allouch, Saad Hassan, Flor Alvarado, Syeda Mah Noor Asad, Dee Parekh, Renata Johnson, Marilyn Payne, David Gardner, Nicholas Mattei, Keith C. Ferdinand

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CHI 2026

ASL Educators’ Perspectives on AI for Enhancing Student Learning in American Sign Language Education

Saad Hassan, Laleh Nourian, Caluã de Lacerda Pataca, Michelle M. Olson, Toni D’Aurio, Kanupriya Agarwal, Syeda Mah Noor Asad, Garreth W. Tigwell, Matt Huenerfauth

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2025

ASSETS 2025 · Demo

A Customizable AI-Powered Automatic Text Simplification Tool for Supporting In-Situ Text Comprehension

Nazmun Nahar Khanom, Aaron Gershkovich, Oliver Alonzo, Saad Hassan

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ASSETS 2025 · Demo

Signing for Care: A Demo and Initial Evaluation of an American Sign Language Learning Tool for Emergency Medical Service Providers

Chaelin Kim, Cameron McLaren, Madhangi Krishnan, Nikhil Modayur, Saad Hassan

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ASSETS 2025 · Workshop Proposal

Participant Recruitment in Accessibility Research

Lloyd May, Saad Hassan, Khang Dang, Sooyeon Lee, Oliver Alonzo

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ASSETS 2025 · Best Paper Nominee

A Review of 25 Years of Human-Computer Interaction Research on Reading Support Technologies for People with Disabilities Published in ACM

Oliver Alonzo*, Saad Hassan*

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CVPR 2025

FSboard: Over 3 Million Characters of ASL Fingerspelling Collected via Smartphones

Manfred Georg, Garrett Tanzer, Esha Uboweja, Saad Hassan, Maximus Shengelia, Sam Sepah, Sean Forbes, Thad Starner

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W4A 2025

Towards an AI-Driven Video-Based American Sign Language Dictionary: Exploring Design and Usage Experience with Learners

Saad Hassan, Matyas Bohacek, Chaelin Kim, Denise Crochet

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CHI 2025

Tactile Emotions: Multimodal Affective Captioning with Haptics Improves Narrative Engagement for d/Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Viewers

Caluã de Lacerda Pataca, Saad Hassan, Lloyd May, Michelle M. Olson, Toni D’Aurio, Roshan L. Peiris, Matt Huenerfauth

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2024

ASSETS 2024 · Demo

Towards a Rich Format for Closed-Captioning

Lloyd May, Alex Williams, Saad Hassan, Mark Cartwright, Sooyeon Lee

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ASSETS 2024 · Poster

Exploring the “Freedom to be Me” through Design Sprints with Neurodivergent Scholars

LouAnne Boyd, Annuska Zolyomi, Saad Hassan, Seray B. Ibrahim, Guande Wu, Kay Kender

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TACCESS 2024

Exploring the Benefits and Applications of Video-Span Selection and Search for Real-Time Support in Sign Language Video Comprehension among ASL Learners

Saad Hassan, Caluã de Lacerda Pataca, Akhter Al Amin, Laleh Nourian, Diego Navarro, Sooyeon Lee, Alexis Gordon, Matthew Watkins, Garreth W. Tigwell, Matt Huenerfauth

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HCOMP 2024 · Workshop Proposal

PACE: Participatory AI for Community Engagement

Saad Hassan, Syeda Mah Noor Asad, Motahhare Eslami, Nicholas Mattei, Aron Culotta, John Zimmerman

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CHI 2024 · Best Paper Honorable Mention

Designing and Evaluating an Advanced Dance Video Comprehension Tool with In-situ Move Identification Capabilities

Saad Hassan, Caluã de Lacerda Pataca, Laleh Nourian, Garreth W. Tigwell, Briana Davis, Will Zhenya Silver Wagman

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CHI 2024 · Best Paper Honorable Mention

Caption Royale: Exploring the Design Space of Affective Captions from the Perspective of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Individuals

Caluã de Lacerda Pataca, Saad Hassan, Nathan Tinker, Roshan Lalintha Peiris, Matt Huenerfauth

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2023

MobileHCI 2023

Tap to Sign: Towards using American Sign Language for Text Entry on Smartphones

Saad Hassan, Abraham Glasser, Max Shengelia, Thad Starner, Sean Forbes, Nathan Qualls, Sam S. Sepah

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ASSETS 2023 · Demo

Sign Spotter: Design and Initial Evaluation of an Automatic Video-Based American Sign Language Dictionary System

Matyas Bohacek, Saad Hassan

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RIT · PhD Dissertation

Exploring Search-by-Video Technology for Searching Structured Human Movements: Insights From Sign Language Look-Up Systems

Saad Hassan

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W4A 2023

Understanding How Deaf and Hard of Hearing Viewers Visually Explore Captioned Live TV News

Akhter Al Amin, Saad Hassan, Sooyeon Lee, Matt Huenerfauth

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W4A 2023 · Communication Paper

Modeling Word Importance in Conversational Transcripts: Toward improved live captioning for Deaf and hard of hearing viewers

Akhter Al Amin, Saad Hassan, Sooyeon Lee, Matt Huenerfauth

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CHI 2023 · Late-Breaking Work

Exploring the Design Space of Automatically Generated Emotive Captions for Deaf or Hard of Hearing Users

Saad Hassan, Yao Ding, Agneya Abhimanyu Kerure, Christi Miller, John Burnett, Emily Biondo, Brenden Gilbert

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NeurIPS 2023 · Datasets and Benchmarks

PopSign ASL v1.0: An Isolated American Sign Language Dataset Collected via Smartphones

Thad Starner, Sean Forbes, Matthew So, David R. Martin, Rohit Sridhar, Gururaj Deshpande, Sam Sepah, Sahir Shahryar, Khushi Bhardwaj, Tyler Kwok, Daksh Sehgal, Saad Hassan, Bill Neubauer, Sofia Vempala, Alec Tan, Jocelyn Heath, Unnathi Kumar, Priyanka Mosur, Tavenner Hall, Rajandeep Singh, Christopher Cui, Glenn Cameron, Sohier Dane, Garrett Tanzer

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2022

ASSETS 2022 · Poster

Understanding ASL Learners’ Preferences for a Sign Language Recording and Automatic Feedback System to Support Self-Study

Saad Hassan, Sooyeon Lee, Dimitris Metaxas, Carol Neidle, Matt Huenerfauth

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ASSETS 2022 · Best Paper Nominee

Support in the Moment: Benefits and use of video-span selection and search for sign-language video comprehension among ASL learners

Saad Hassan, Akhter Al Amin, Caluã de Lacerda Pataca, Diego Navarro, Alexis Gordon, Sooyeon Lee, Matt Huenerfauth

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LT-EDI @ ACL 2022

Using BERT Embeddings to Model Word Importance in Conversational Transcripts for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users

Akhter Al Amin, Saad Hassan, Cecilia Alm, Matt Huenerfauth

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SLRP @ LREC 2022

ASL-Homework-RGBD Dataset: An Annotated Dataset of 45 Fluent and Non-fluent Signers Performing American Sign Language Homeworks

Saad Hassan, Matthew Seita, Larwan Berke, Yingli Tian, Elaine Gale, Sooyeon Lee, Matt Huenerfauth

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CHI 2022

Watch It, Don’t Imagine It: Creating a Better Caption-Occlusion Metric by Collecting More Ecologically Valid Judgments from DHH Viewers

Akhter Al Amin*, Saad Hassan*, Sooyeon Lee, Matt Huenerfauth

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CHI 2022

Design and Evaluation of Hybrid Search for American Sign Language to English Dictionaries: Making the Most of Imperfect Sign Recognition

Saad Hassan*, Akhter Al Amin*, Alexis Gordon, Sooyeon Lee, Matt Huenerfauth

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CHIIR 2022 · Doctoral Consortium

Designing and Experimentally Evaluating a Video-based American Sign Language Look-up System

Saad Hassan

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2021

EMNLP 2021 · Findings

Unpacking the Interdependent Systems of Discrimination: Ableist Bias in NLP Systems through an Intersectional Lens

Saad Hassan, Matt Huenerfauth, Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm

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TACCESS 2021

Effect of Sign-recognition Performance on the Usability of Sign-language Dictionary Search

Saad Hassan, Oliver Alonzo, Abraham Glasser, Matt Huenerfauth

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W4A 2021

Caption-occlusion Severity Judgments across Live-television Genres from Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Viewers

Akhter Al Amin, Saad Hassan, Matt Huenerfauth

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UAHCI 2021

Effect of Occlusion on Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users’ Perception of Captioned Video Quality

Akhter Al Amin, Saad Hassan, Matt Huenerfauth

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2020

SLRTP @ ECCV 2020

Effect of Ranking and Precision of Results on Users’ Satisfaction with Search-by-video Sign-language Dictionaries

Saad Hassan, Oliver Alonzo, Abraham Glasser, Matt Huenerfauth

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SLRP @ LREC 2020

An Isolated-Signing RGBD Dataset of 100 American Sign Language Signs Produced by Fluent ASL Signers

Saad Hassan, Larwan Berke, Elahe Vahdani, Longlong Jing, Yingli Tian, Matt Huenerfauth

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