Publications

The Intersecting Liminality of Technology Adoption and Disability during Life Transitions

Isabela Figueira, Wendy Sanka, Karen Phan, Yoonha Cha, Stacy M. Branham
Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS) 2026, Volume 19, Issue 1

(to appear) "Coder first, advocate second, college student third": The Liminality of Going to College as a Blind Computing Student

Isabela Figueira, Josahandi M. Cisneros, Stacy M. Branham
ASSETS 2026

(to appear) "My Body Became the Access Infrastructure": An Autoethnographic Account of a deaf Student's Transition into Higher Education in Nigeria

Sunday D. Ubur, Isabela Figueira, Stacy M. Branham
ASSETS 2026

(to appear) This is Clear, Right? Measuring Spatial Deixis Ambiguity in CS Lectures with a Validated LLM Assistant Rater

Jason L. Weber, Isabela Figueira, Matthew Elniski, Kyle Son, Stacy M. Branham, Jennifer Wong-Ma
FIE 2026

Where are the Disabled Students?: A Literature Review of Disability Inclusion in Computing Education Research

Isabela Figueira, Josahandi M. Cisneros, Jason L. Weber, Wendy Sanka, Karen Phan, Jennifer Wong-Ma, Stacy M. Branham
SIGCSE TS 2026

Inspiring Blind and Low Vision High School Students and their Teachers to Access STEM in College

Isabela Figueira, Josahandi M. Cisneros, Julieta Lindo, Vinh H. Luong, Stacy M. Branham
RESPECT 2025
Exemplary Paper Award

Intersecting Liminality: Acquiring a Smartphone as a Blind or Low Vision Older Adult

Isabela Figueira, Yoonha Cha, Stacy M. Branham
ASSETS 2024
Best Paper Nominee (top 2%)

Understanding the Career Mobility of Blind and Low Vision Software Professionals

Yoonha Cha, Victoria Jackson, Isabela Figueira, Stacy M. Branham, André van der Hoek
CHASE 2024
Distinguished Paper Award

"Do you want me to participate or not?": Unpacking the Accessibility of Software Development Meetings for Blind and Low Vision Professionals

Yoonha Cha, Isabela Figueira, Jessy Ayala, Emory J. Edwards, Joshua Garcia, André van der Hoek, Stacy M. Branham
CHI 2024

Cuddling Up with a Braille Book: How Intimacy and Access Shape Parents' Reading Practices with Children

Cameron T. Cassidy, Isabela Figueira, Sohyeon Park, Jin Seo Kim, Emory J. Edwards, Stacy M. Branham
CHI 2024

"If I'm supposed to be the facilitator, I should be the host": Understanding the Accessibility of Videoconferencing for Blind and Low Vision Meeting Facilitators

Taslima Akter, Yoonha Cha, Isabela Figueira, Stacy M. Branham, Anne Marie Piper
ASSETS 2023

Informing Accessible Design of AI Literacy Apps through Practices of Blind Parents Reading with Sighted Children

Isabela Figueira, Josahandi Cisneros, Molly Leachman, Elizabeth Peña, Stacy M. Branham
ASSETS 2024

Smartphone Stories: Experiences of Blind and Low Vision Older Adults in Acquiring a Smartphone

Isabela Figueira, Yoonha Cha, Jun Zhu, Stacy M. Branham
DIS Companion 2023

Augmented Reality Patient-Specific Registration for Medical Visualization

Isabela Figueira, Muhammad Twaha Ibrahim, Aditi Majumder, M. Gopi
VRST 2022