Ruofei Du

Ruofei Du

PhD Student, Computer Science

University of Maryland

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Ruofei was a PhD Student in the Makeability Lab from Aug 2013 to Jan 2015 and contributed to 2 projects and 5 publications.

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Projects

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HandSight

2013 – 2018

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AtmoSPHERE

2014 – 2015

Recent Papers

ProtoSound: A Personalized and Scalable Sound Recognition System for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Users

Proceedings of CHI 2022

Dhruv Jain, Khoa Nguyen, Steven Goodman, Rachel Grossman-Kahn, Hung Ngo, Aditya Kusupati, Ruofei Du, Alex Olwal, Leah Findlater, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | doi | Citation | ProtoSound

Evaluating Haptic and Auditory Directional Guidance to Assist Blind People in Reading Printed Text Using Finger-Mounted Cameras

ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS) 2016

Lee Stearns, Ruofei Du, Uran Oh, Catherine Jou, Leah Findlater, David Ross, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | doi | Citation | Haptic Hand Guidance • HandSight

Supporting Everyday Activities for Persons with Visual Impairments Through Computer Vision-Augmented Touch

Poster Proceedings of ASSETS 2015

Leah Findlater, Lee Stearns, Ruofei Du, Uran Oh, David Ross, Rama Chellappa, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | doi | Citation | HandSight

Videos

ProtoSound: A Personalized and Scalable Sound Recognition System for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Users

YouTube | Paper

AtmoSPHERE: Representing Space and Movement Using Sand Traces in an Interactive Zen Garden

YouTube | Paper

The Design and Preliminary Evaluation of a Finger-Mounted Camera and Feedback System to Enable Reading of Printed Text for the Blind

YouTube | Paper

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.