About Me

Hi! I’m a fifth-year Ph.D. student at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. My research is mostly in the area of accessibility technology, specifically navigation aids for people with visual impairments. I work in the CMU Accessibility Lab and am advised by Jeffrey Bigham and Kris Kitani.

Recent Publications

• 2020

  • Twitter A11y: Making Images on Social Media Accessible

    (CHI '20 Paper) [PDF]

    Cole Gleason, Amy Pavel, Emma McCamey, Christina Low, Patrick Carrington, Kris M. Kitani, and Jeffrey P. Bigham.

• 2019

  • Addressing the Accessibility of Social Media

    (CSCW '19 Extended Abstract) [PDF]

    Cole Gleason, Patrick Carrington, Lydia B Chilton, Benjamin M Gorman, Hernisa Kacorri, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Meredith Ringel Morris, Garreth W Tigwell, and Shaomei Wu.

  • Twitter A11y: A Browser Extension to Describe Images

    (ASSETS '19 Poster) [PDF]

    Christina Low, Emma McCamey, Cole Gleason, Patrick Carrington, Jeffrey P. Bigham, and Amy Pavel.

  • Making Memes Accessible

    (ASSETS '19 Paper) [PDF]

    Cole Gleason, Amy Pavel, Xingyu Liu, Patrick Carrington, Lydia B. Chilton, and Jeffrey P. Bigham.

  • "It’s almost like they’re trying to hide it": How User-Provided Image Descriptions Have Failed to Make Twiter Accessible

    (WWW '19 Paper) [PDF]

    Cole Gleason, Patrick Carrington, Cameron Cassidy, Meredith Ringel Morris, Kris M. Kitani, and Jeffrey P. Bigham.

• 2018

  • FootNotes: Geo-referenced Audio Annotations for Nonvisual Exploration

    (IMWUT '18 Paper) [PDF]

    Cole Gleason, Alexander J. Fiannaca, Melanie Kneisel, Edward Cutrell, and Meredith Ringel Morris.

  • Crowdsourcing the Installation and Maintenance of Indoor Localization Infrastructure to Support Blind Navigation

    (IMWUT '18 Paper) [PDF]

    Cole Gleason, Dragan Ahmetovic, Saiph Savage, Carlos Toxtli, Carl Posthuma, Chieko Asakawa, Kris M. Kitani, and Jeffrey P. Bigham.

• 2017

  • Achieving practical and accurate indoor navigation for people with visual impairments

    (W4A '17 Paper) [PDF]

    Dragan Ahmetovic, Masayuki Murata, Cole Gleason, Erin Brady, Hironobu Takagi, Kris Kitani, and Chieko Asakawa.

• 2016

  • VizMap: Accessible Visual Information Through Crowdsourced Map Reconstruction

    (ASSETS '16 Extended Abstract) [PDF]

    Cole Gleason, Anhong Guo, Gierad Laput, Kris Kitani, and Jeffrey P. Bigham.

  • NavCog: a navigational cognitive assistant for the blind

    (MobileHCI '16 Paper) [PDF]

    Dragan Ahmetovic, Cole Gleason, Chengxiong Ruan, Kris M. Kitani, Hironobu Takagi, and Chieko Asakawa.

  • An Uninteresting Tour Through Why Our Research Papers Aren't Accessible

    (CHI EA '16 Extended Abstract) [PDF]

    Jeffrey P. Bigham, Erin L. Brady, Cole Gleason, Anhong Guo, and David A. Shamma.

  • NavCog: turn-by-turn smartphone navigation assistant for people with visual impairments or blindness

    (W4A '16 Extended Abstract) [PDF]

    Dragan Ahmetovic, Cole Gleason, Kris M. Kitani, Hironobu Takagi, and Chieko Asakawa.

• 2014

  • Associating an indication of user emotional reaction with content items presented by a social networking system

    (USPTO Patent)

    Yigal Dan Rubinstein, Abhishek Doshi, Reshma Khilnani Ebberson, and Cole Gleason.