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• Fuzzy Feelings: Arousal's Interpretive Noise and the Case for Acoustic-Based Haptics

  Caluã de Lacerda Pataca, Stephanie Patterson, Roshan L Peiris, Matt Huenerfauth · 2026 · CHI '26: Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

  This CHI 2026 paper from a team at Rochester Institute of Technology and Birmingham City University tackles a persistent gap in captioning: traditional captions carry words but strip the emotional tone, rhythm, and vocal affect that sighted hearing viewers absorb automatically.…

  captioning · expressive captions · haptic feedback · vibrotactile · affective computing

• Toward Enhancing Subtitle Features in Mobile Apps: Analyzing User Reviews for Accessibility and Usability Insights

  Wajdi M Aljedaani, Matheus Souza, Marcelo Medeiros Eler · 2026 · Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This large-scale study analyses user reviews from the Google Play Store to understand how people experience subtitle and caption features in mobile applications. The authors extracted roughly 180 million reviews from the top 340 Android apps across diverse categories, then…

  subtitles · captioning · mobile applications · user reviews · app store analysis

• Like, Comment & Caption: A Decade of Social Media Video Caption Research (2015-2025)

  Huong Nguyen, Emma J. McDonnell, Lloyd May, Alexander Druzenko, Zoobia Saifullah Syeda, Mark Cartwright, Sooyeon Lee · 2026 · Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This CHI 2026 paper is a systematic literature review of 36 peer-reviewed studies on Social Media Video Captions (SMVC) published between 2015 and 2025, spanning HCI, accessibility, media studies, education, and language learning. The authors use 'SMVC' as an umbrella for…

  captioning · captions · video accessibility · social media accessibility · Deaf and hard of hearing

• Redesigning Educational Videos for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Learners

  Si Chen, Haocong Cheng, Suzy Su, Lu Ming, Sarah Masud, Qi Wang, Yun Huang · 2026 · Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  Educational videos have exploded in higher education and online learning, but accessibility guidance for d/Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) learners has barely moved beyond captions and transcripts. Chen and colleagues argue this is a theoretical gap as much as a practical one:…

  deaf and hard of hearing · video accessibility · captioning · multimedia learning · cognitive accessibility

• Silence is a Feature, Not a Bug: A Deaf Developer’s Autoethnography on Agency and Local AI

  Chenyang Gong · 2026 · Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’26)

  This CHI 2026 Extended Abstract is a three-page autoethnographic provocation by a Deaf computer science graduate student who uses a MED-EL cochlear implant. The author refuses the medical-model framing of deafness as deficit and instead argues that the ability to remove the…

  autoethnography · deaf and hard of hearing · cochlear implant · automatic speech recognition · captioning

• Speaker-Aware Affective Captioning for Multi-Speaker STEM Talk in Inclusive Classrooms

  Sunday David Ubur, Denis Gracanin, Stephanie P DeHart, Enoch Katey Akli, Fatemeh Sarshartehrani, Sikiru Adewale · 2026 · Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '26)

  Ubur and colleagues at Virginia Tech address a specific failure mode of live captioning in classroom and meeting settings: collapsing multi-speaker discourse into a single text stream that obscures who said what and how it was said. They argue this is especially consequential…

  captioning · deaf and hard of hearing · speaker diarization · speech emotion recognition · STEM education

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