About Me

Hi! I’m a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. I design and research accessibility technology, recently focusing on how to make social media more accessible for people with vision impairments. I work in the CMU Accessibility Lab and am advised by Jeffrey Bigham and Kris Kitani. I’m currently looking for HCI researcher positions in industry or academia starting in late 2020 or early 2021.

Recent Publications

• 2020

  • Making GIFs Accessible

    (ASSETS '20 Paper [To Appear])

    Cole Gleason, Amy Pavel, Himalini Gururaj, Kris M. Kitani, and Jeffrey P. Bigham.

  • Disability and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Using Twitter to Understand Accessibility during Rapid Societal Transition

    (ASSETS '20 Paper [To Appear])

    Cole Gleason, Stephanie Valencia-Valencia, Lynn Kirabo, Jason Wu, Anhong Guo, Elizabeth J. Carter, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Cynthia L. Bennett, and Amy Pavel.

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    Twitter A11y: A Browser Extension to Make Twitter Images Accessible

    (CHI '20 Paper) [PDF]

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

    Best Paper Honourable Mention Award (Top 5%)

• 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.