I am a 5th year Ph.D. candidate in the Information School at the University of Washington, advised by Prof. Jacob O. Wobbrock. Prior to that, I received my Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science with an additional major in Human-Computer Interaction and minors in Statistics and Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University, where I worked with Prof. Jeffrey P. Bigham and Prof. Anhong Guo. I have also worked at Adobe Research and Meta Reality Labs as a research scientist intern.

I'm broadly interested in human-computer interaction and accessibility. My work seeks to enable computer technologies to understand the varying abilities of their users, and to design, implement, and evaluate tools to make technologies accessible and personalized by adapting to these abilities. Specifically, my work focuses on:

  • Quantitative characterization of human abilities through user input behavior and sensor data;
  • Mixed-initiative interface adaptations based on user abilities.

Publications

The Ability-Based Design Mobile Toolkit (ABD-MT): Developer Support for Runtime Interface Adaptation Based on Users' Abilities

Junhan Kong, Mingyuan Zhong, James Fogarty, Jacob O. Wobbrock

MobileHCI 2024   Best Paper Award

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Personalized Gesture Classification for Encouraging Non-Sedentary Behavior During Technology Use in People with Motor Disabilities

Momona Yamagami, Alexandra A. Portnova-Fahreeva, Claire L. Mitchell, Junhan Kong, Jacob O. Wobbrock

EMBC 2024 Poster

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Improving Mobile Reading Experiences While Walking Through Automatic Adaptations and Prompted Customization

Junhan Kong, Tianyuan Cai, Zoya Bylinskii

UIST 2023 Poster

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How Do People with Limited Movement Personalize Upper-Body Gestures? Considerations for the Design of Personalized and Accessible Gesture Interfaces

Momona Yamagami, Alexandra A. Portnova-Fahreeva, Junhan Kong, Jacob O. Wobbrock, Jennifer Mankoff

ASSETS 2023

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Quantifying Touch: New Metrics for Characterizing What Happens During a Touch

Junhan Kong, Mingyuan Zhong, James Fogarty, Jacob O. Wobbrock

ASSETS 2022   Best Paper Nominee

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TutorialLens: Authoring Interactive Augmented Reality Tutorials Through Narration and Demonstration

Junhan Kong, Dena Sabha, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Amy Pavel, Anhong Guo

SUI 2021

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New Metrics for Understanding Touch by People with and without Limited Fine Motor Function

Junhan Kong, Mingyuan Zhong, James Fogarty, Jacob O. Wobbrock

ASSETS 2021 Poster

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Supporting Older Adults in Using Complex User Interfaces with Augmented Reality

Junhan Kong, Anhong Guo, Jeffrey P. Bigham

ASSETS 2019 Demo

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StateLens: A reverse engineering solution for making existing dynamic touchscreens accessible

Anhong Guo, Junhan Kong, Michael Rivera, Frank F. Xu, Jeffrey P. Bigham

UIST 2019

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