Rock Pang

Rock Pang

PhD Student, Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering

University of Washington

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Rock Pang is currently a collaborator with the Makeability Lab. Rock has collaborated with the lab for 1.3 years and contributed to a project called AltGeoViz as well as 2 publications.

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Projects

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AltGeoViz

2024 – Present

Papers

Accessibility for Whom? Perceptions of Mobility Barriers Across Disability Groups and Implications for Designing Personalized Maps

Chu Li, Rock Pang, Delphine Labbé, Yochai Eisenberg, Maryam Hosseini, Jon E. Froehlich

Proceedings of CHI 2025

keywords: accessibility, crowdsourcing accessibility, physical accessibility, urban accessibility, sidewalks, sidewalk images, sidewalk visualization, personalized maps

PDF | doi | Citation | Code | Project Sidewalk • Accessibility for Whom?

AltGeoViz: Facilitating Accessible Geovisualization

Chu Li, Rock Pang, Ather Sharif, Arnavi Chheda-Kothary, Jeffrey Heer, Jon E. Froehlich

Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2024 | Acceptance Rate: 31.9% (66 / 207)

keywords: visualization, screen readers, accessible visualizations, accessible maps, dynamic geovisualization, accessible visual analytics

PDF | doi | Citation | Talk | AltGeoViz

Videos

Accessibility for Whom? Perceptions of Mobility Barriers Across Disability Groups and Implications for Designing Personalized Maps

YouTube | Paper | Accessibility for Whom?

AltGeoViz: Facilitating Accessible Geovisualization

YouTube | Paper | AltGeoViz

We design, build, and evaluate new interactive tools and techniques to address pressing societal challenges. Makeability refers both to how our technological innovations make new abilities possible for humans as well as our educational mission to help students gain new abilities as they learn and grow through research, invention, and human-centered design.