Amy Pavel
Assistant Professor
Builds human-AI systems that make videos and visual media accessible to blind and low-vision people.
Amy Pavel's lab at UC Berkeley works on human-AI collaboration & trust and accessibility, health & wellbeing. 26 papers since 2023, 16 at top venues, mostly CHI and UIST. 5 PhD students. 9 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 7/ year
- at T1 venues
- 62%
- PhD students
- 5
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 9
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 3 papers2026 · T1 3 · collecting
- 10 papers2025 · T1 5
- 8 papers2024 · T1 5
- 5 papers2023 · T1 3
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CHI, UIST, IUI, ECCV, SIGGRAPH Asia
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Accessibility, health & wellbeing4 papers
- Human-AI collaboration & trust1 paper
- visual media1 paper
- human-ai systems0 papers
- make0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20263 papers
- CHI (T1)A11y-CUA Dataset: Characterizing the Accessibility Gap in Computer Use Agents (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Co-Designing Multimodal Systems for Accessible Asynchronous Dance Instruction (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)HistoryPalette: Supporting Exploration and Reuse of Past Alternatives in Image Generation and Editing (opens in a new tab)
202510 papers
- TACCESS"Made by People, Described by People": The Changing Work Practices of Audio Description Professionals (opens in a new tab)
- UIST (T1)CoSight: Exploring Viewer Contributions to Online Video Accessibility Through Descriptive Commenting (opens in a new tab)
- IUILotus: Creating Short Videos From Long Videos With Abstractive and Extractive Summarization (opens in a new tab)
- UIST (T1)Morae: Proactively Pausing UI Agents for User Choices (opens in a new tab)
- ASSETSSurfacing Variations to Calibrate Perceived Reliability of MLLM-generated Image Descriptions (opens in a new tab)
- UIST (T1)TalkLess: Blending Extractive and Abstractive Speech Summarization for Editing Speech to Preserve Content and Style (opens in a new tab)
- ASSETSTask Mode: Dynamic Filtering for Task-Specific Web Navigation using LLMs (opens in a new tab)
- ASSETSVeasyGuide: Personalized Visual Guidance for Low-vision Learners on Instructor Actions in Presentation Videos (opens in a new tab)
- UIST (T1)Vid2Coach: Transforming How-To Videos into Task Assistants (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)VideoDiff: Human-AI Video Co-Creation with Alternatives (opens in a new tab)
20248 papers
- CHI (T1)Barriers to Photosensitive Accessibility in Virtual Reality (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)COMPA: Using Conversation Context to Achieve Common Ground in AAC (opens in a new tab)
- ASSETSContext-Aware Image Descriptions for Web Accessibility (opens in a new tab)
- ASSETSDesign Considerations for Photosensitivity Warnings in Visual Media (opens in a new tab)
- UIST (T1)DesignChecker: Visual Design Support for Blind and Low Vision Web Developers (opens in a new tab)
- ECCV (T1)DreamStruct: Understanding Slides and User Interfaces via Synthetic Data Generation (opens in a new tab)
- COLMLong-Form Answers to Visual Questions from Blind and Low Vision People (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)ShortScribe: Making Short-Form Videos Accessible with Hierarchical Video Summaries (opens in a new tab)
20235 papers
- CHI (T1)AVscript: Accessible Video Editing with Audio-Visual Scripts (opens in a new tab)
- ASSETSExploring Community-Driven Descriptions for Making Livestreams Accessible (opens in a new tab)
- UIST (T1)GenAssist: Making Image Generation Accessible (opens in a new tab)
- SIGGRAPH Asia (T1)GeoLatent: A Geometric Approach to Latent Space Design for Deformable Shape Generators (opens in a new tab)
- IUISlideSpecs: Automatic and Interactive Presentation Feedback Collation (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went9 listed
Apply to UC BerkeleyFall 2027
UC Berkeley EECS Computer Science PhD
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- Single round
- Opens
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- GRE
- not required
- English
- TOEFL/IELTS (non-English-country degrees)
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