Ravi Kuber is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems, UMBC.
His research interests relate to the fields of human-centered computing and accessibility. More specifically,
his research aims to help the blind and elderly
communities overcome barriers faced when interacting with existing technologies, through the design of haptic and multimodal interfaces.
Other areas of interest include applying non-visual technologies to address the trade-offs associated with authentication.
He has published papers in journals such as
Journal of Virtual Reality and Universal Access in the Information Society, and
in conferences such as ACM SIGCHI and British HCI. He received his Ph.D.
from Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, and M.S. and B.S. degrees from
University College London, UK.
Murphy, E., Kuber, R., McAllister, G., Strain, P. & Yu, W. 2008:
An Empirical Investigation into the Difficulties Experienced by Visually Impaired Internet
Users. Universal Access in the Information Society, 7(1), 79-91.
Kuber, R., Yu, W. & McAllister, G. 2007: A Non-Visual Approach to Improving Collaboration
between Blind and Sighted Internet Users. Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction,
Applications and Services (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), 913-922.
Kuber, R., Yu, W. & McAllister, G. 2007: Towards Developing Assistive Haptic Feedback for
Visually Impaired Internet Users. In proceedings of CHI'07, San Jose, USA, 1525-1534.
Murphy, E., Kuber, R., Strain, P., McAllister, G. & Yu, W. 2007: Developing Sounds for a
Multimodal Interface: Conveying Spatial Information to Visually Impaired Web Users.
In proceedings of ICAD'07, Montreal, Canada.
Strain, P., McAllister, G., Murphy, E., Kuber, R. & Yu, W. 2007: A Grid-Based Extension to an
Assistive Multimodal Interface. In Extended Abstracts of CHI'07, San Jose, USA, 2675-2680.
Kuber, R. 2006: Developing an Assistive Haptic Framework for Improving Non-Visual Access
to the Web. In SIGACCESS Newsletter & Doctoral Consortium, ACCESS'06, Portland, USA, 16-19.
Kuber, R., Sulaiman, S. & Blandford, A. 2006: Investigating the Communication of Emotions
through Multimodal Technologies and Gestures. In proceedings of HCI'06 Volume 2, London, UK, 205-207.
Yu, W., Kuber, R., Murphy, E., Strain, P. & McAllister, G. 2006: A Novel Multimodal
Interface for Improving Visually Impaired People's Web Accessibility.
Journal of Virtual Reality, 9, 2 (Jan 2006), 133-148.
Kuber, R., Yu, W., Murphy, E., Strain, P. & McAllister, G. 2005: Assistive Multimodal Interfaces
for Improving Web Accessibility. In Hands On Haptics Workshop, CHI'05, Portland, USA.
Yu, W., McAllister, G., Kuber, R., Murphy, E. & Strain, P. 2005: Improving Web Accessibility
using Content-Aware Plug-ins. In Extended Abstracts of CHI'05, Portland, USA, 1893-1896.
Supervision
Please make contact if you are interested in doing a Senior Project (BA/BS), Independent Study (MS/Ph.D.), or a Thesis (MS/Ph.D.) in one or more of the following areas:
Studies relating to technology usage amongst the blind and elderly communities
