Hernisa Kacorri
Associate Professor
Builds data-driven assistive technologies, such as teachable object recognizers for blind users and sign-language modeling.
Hernisa Kacorri's lab at UMD works on human-robot interaction & assistive robots and large language models. 18 papers since 2023, 9 at top venues, mostly CHI and AAAI/ACM AIES.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 5/ year
- at T1 venues
- 50%
- PhD students
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- MS students
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- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom DBLP, 2023–2026
- 1 papers2026 · T1 1 · collecting
- 6 papers2025 · T1 2
- 7 papers2024 · T1 3
- 4 papers2023 · T1 3
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CHI, AAAI/ACM AIES, NeurIPS, TPAMI
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- blind7 papers
- Human-robot interaction & assistive robots3 papers
- users2 papers
- Large language models1 paper
- assistive technologies0 papers
Paper list
From DBLP.
20261 paper
20256 papers
- CHI (T1)Beyond Omakase: Designing Shared Control for Navigation Robots with Blind People (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol.Enabling Older Adults to Provide High-quality Activity Labels: Unpacking Accuracy, Precision, and Granularity in Activity Labeling (opens in a new tab)
- ASSETSExploring Collaboration to Center the Deaf Community in Sign Language AI (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol.From Verbal Reports to Personalized Activity Trackers: Understanding the Challenges of Ground Truth Data Collection with Older Adults in the Wild (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI/ACM AIESToward a Taxonomy of Algorithmic Harms for Disability: A Systematic Review (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Tracking and its Potential for Older Adults with Memory Concerns (opens in a new tab)
20247 papers
- W4A"We are at the mercy of others' opinion": Supporting Blind People in Recreational Window Shopping with AI-infused Technology (opens in a new tab)
- ASSETSAccessShare: Co-designing Data Access and Sharing with Blind People (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Exploring AI Problem Formulation with Children via Teachable Machines (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph.HoloCamera: Advanced Volumetric Capture for Cinematic-Quality VR Applications (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Redefining Activity Tracking Through Older Adults' Reflections on Meaningful Activities (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Text to Blind Motion (opens in a new tab)
- ASSETSUnderstanding How Blind Users Handle Object Recognition Errors: Strategies and Challenges (opens in a new tab)
20234 papers
- CHI (T1)Contributing to Accessibility Datasets: Reflections on Sharing Study Data by Blind People (opens in a new tab)
- TPAMI (T1)Leveraging Hand-Object Interactions in Assistive Egocentric Vision (opens in a new tab)
- Int. J. Hum. Comput. Interact.Six Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Grand Challenges (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Supporting Novices Author Audio Descriptions via Automatic Feedback (opens in a new tab)
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UMD Computer Science PhD
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