Research
	Research My research is in assistive technology; computer solutions for people with disabilities. My projects involve developing and evaluating computer applications for people with a variety of disabilities. In my dissertation I investigate shared workspaces to support collaboration between people with and without disabilities. The Deep View system supports collaboration between a blind person and a sighted person. The Facetop system supports collaboration between a deaf person and a hearing person. Projects Deep View: Accessible diagram interface for blind users. Also support synchronous collaboration with a sighted person. The sighted persons use a visual diagram application, such as Rational Rose or MS Visio. Facetop: Video conferencing solution to support collaboration between a deaf person and a hearing person. The video conferencing enables the users to communicate through gestures. Reading technology: I collaborate with UNC Disability Services and ASP to support students with learning disabilities (LD) and Attention deficit and hypertension disorder (ADHD). The LD/ADHD students are sighted, however, they have a weakness reading printed text. Listening to the text-to-speech circumvents the reading weakness and helps the students complete reading assignments.  Related projects: Read-2-Me project PDF to Mp3 conversion project Received UNC Impact award for community service, 2006 JAWS: We designed custom equipment to assist people with mobility impairments complete training tasks. Related: Received second place in NISH design completion, 2006 Received UNC Impact award for community service, 2006 Papers Miller D., Gyllstrom K., Stotts D., Culp J. "Semi-transparent video interfaces to assist deaf persons in meetings", ACM Southeast Regional Conference, Winston-Salem  NC, March 2007. ACM Gyllstrom K., Stotts D., Miller D. "Techniques for improving the visibility and "sharability" of semi-transparent video in shared workspaces", ACM Southeast Regional Conference, Winston-Salem NC, March 2007. ACM Kohli L., Burns E., Miller D., Fuchs H. “Combining Passive Haptics with Redirected Walking”, Artificial Reality and Telexistence (ICAT), Christchurch, New Zealand, December 2005. ACM Miller D., Asakawa C., Takagi H., “Visualizing the Accessibility of HTML Tables for Webpage Designers”, International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Las Vegas, NV, July 2005.  PDF Miller D., Citron A, et al., “System and Method for Dynamic Software Installation Instructions”, IBM Patent Pending, USPTO issued Serial Number 10/841,747; August 2003. USPTO Miller, D, Bishop, G. “Latency Meter: A device to easily monitor VE delay”. SPIE Proceedings of Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality, San Jose, CA, 2002.  PDF Posters and short presentations  Miller D., Stotts D., Culp J. "Facetop tablet:: note-taking assistance for deaf persons", ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Assistive Technologies, Portland OR, October 2006. ACM Browne U., Miller D. “Poster: Ziploc Bag Management System: JAWS”, Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology (RESNA), Atlanta, GA, July 2005. Web Miller D., Stotts D.,  “The Transparent Video Facetop and its Use in Support of Distributed Collaborative Tasks”, CHI Fringe, Vienna, Austria, April 2004.
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