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62
Citations
14694
World Ranking
2910
National Ranking
1431

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Jeffrey P. Bigham is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Computer Science, with a strong focus on subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science Applications, Information Systems, Human-Computer Interaction, and Human Factors and Ergonomics.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Topic Modeling
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Speech and Dialogue Systems
  • Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing
  • Digital Accessibility for Disabilities
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Speech Recognition and Synthesis

Frequent coauthors in their publications include:

  • Amy Pavel
  • Jason Wu
  • Jeffrey Nichols
  • Zachary C. Lipton
  • Prakhar Gupta

They have published extensively across various venues, notably:

  • arXiv (Cornell University) with 36 publications
  • ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing with 3 publications
  • CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems with 2 publications
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence with 2 publications
  • Communications of the ACM with 2 publications

Recent papers by Jeffrey P. Bigham include:

  • "Anticipate and Adjust: Cultivating Access in Human-Centered Methods" (2022), published in CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • "Predicting risk of dyslexia with an online gamified test" (2020), published in PLoS ONE
  • "It's Time to Do Something: Mitigating the Negative Impacts of Computing Through a Change to the Peer Review Process" (2021), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "TutorialLens: Authoring Interactive Augmented Reality Tutorials Through Narration and Demonstration" (2021), published in Symposium on Spatial User Interaction
  • "Tech Help Desk: Support for Local Entrepreneurs Addressing the Long Tail of Computing Challenges" (2022), published in CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Jeffrey P. Bigham was awarded the Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2014.

Best Publications

  • VizWiz: nearly real-time answers to visual questions

    Jeffrey P. Bigham;Chandrika Jayant;Hanjie Ji;Greg Little

  • VizWiz: nearly real-time answers to visual questions

    Jeffrey P. Bigham;Chandrika Jayant;Hanjie Ji;Greg Little

  • A Data-Driven Analysis of Workers' Earnings on Amazon Mechanical Turk

    Kotaro Hara;Abigail Adams;Kristy Milland;Saiph Savage

  • Slide rule: making mobile touch screens accessible to blind people using multi-touch interaction techniques

    Shaun K. Kane;Jeffrey P. Bigham;Jacob O. Wobbrock

  • VizWiz Grand Challenge: Answering Visual Questions from Blind People

    Danna Gurari;Qing Li;Abigale J. Stangl;Anhong Guo

  • Finding your friends and following them to where you are

    Adam Sadilek;Henry Kautz;Jeffrey P. Bigham

  • Visual challenges in the everyday lives of blind people

    Erin Brady;Meredith Ringel Morris;Yu Zhong;Samuel White

  • More than meets the eye: a survey of screen-reader browsing strategies

    Yevgen Borodin;Jeffrey P. Bigham;Glenn Dausch;I. V. Ramakrishnan

  • Real-time captioning by groups of non-experts

    Walter Lasecki;Christopher Miller;Adam Sadilek;Andrew Abumoussa

  • Organizing and searching the world wide web of facts - step one: the one-million fact extraction challenge

    Marius Pasca;Dekang Lin;Jeffrey Bigham;Andrei Lifchits

  • Evaluating existing audio CAPTCHAs and an interface optimized for non-visual use

    Jeffrey P. Bigham;Anna C. Cavender

  • WebInSight: making web images accessible

    Jeffrey P. Bigham;Ryan S. Kaminsky;Richard E. Ladner;Oscar M. Danielsson

  • Supporting blind photography

    Chandrika Jayant;Hanjie Ji;Samuel White;Jeffrey P. Bigham

  • Real-time crowd control of existing interfaces

    Walter S. Lasecki;Kyle I. Murray;Samuel White;Robert C. Miller

  • Chorus: a crowd-powered conversational assistant

    Walter S. Lasecki;Rachel Wesley;Jeffrey Nichols;Anand Kulkarni

  • WebinSitu: a comparative analysis of blind and sighted browsing behavior

    Jeffrey P. Bigham;Anna C. Cavender;Jeremy T. Brudvik;Jacob O. Wobbrock

  • Combining independent modules to solve multiple-choice synonym and analogy problems

    Peter D. Turney;Michael L. Littman;Jeffrey Bigham;Victor Shnayder

  • Investigating the appropriateness of social network question asking as a resource for blind users

    Erin L. Brady;Yu Zhong;Meredith Ringel Morris;Jeffrey P. Bigham

  • VizWiz::LocateIt - enabling blind people to locate objects in their environment

    Jeffrey P. Bigham;Chandrika Jayant;Andrew Miller;Brandyn White

  • Real-time crowd labeling for deployable activity recognition

    Walter S. Lasecki;Young Chol Song;Henry Kautz;Jeffrey P. Bigham

  • WebAnywhere: a screen reader on-the-go

    Jeffrey P. Bigham;Craig M. Prince;Richard E. Ladner

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard E. Ladner
Richard E. Ladner University of Washington
Meredith Ringel Morris
Meredith Ringel Morris Google (United States)
Jeffrey Nichols
Jeffrey Nichols Apple (United States)
Steven Dow
Steven Dow University of California, San Diego
Kris M. Kitani
Kris M. Kitani Carnegie Mellon University
Shaun K. Kane
Shaun K. Kane Google (United States)
Chieko Asakawa
Chieko Asakawa Carnegie Mellon University
Jaime Teevan
Jaime Teevan Microsoft (United States)
Michael S. Bernstein
Michael S. Bernstein Stanford University

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