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 older adult
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 received his Ph.D.
from Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, and M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees from University College London, UK.
Zhu, S., Kuber, R., Tretter, M. & O’Modhrain, M.S. 2011: Identifying the Benefits of Haptic Devices for Non-Visual Access to the Web. Interacting with Computers 23, 565-581.
Qian, H., Kuber, R. & Sears, A. 2011: Developing Perceivable Tactile Feedback for Mobile Devices. International Journal of Human Computer Studies 69, 705-719.
Qian, H., Kuber, R., Sears, A. & Murphy, E. 2011: Maintaining and Modifying Pace through Tactile and Multimodal Feedback.
Interacting with Computers, 23 (3), 214-225.
Kuber, R., Yu, W. & O'Modhrain, M.S. 2011: The Evaluation of Haptic HTML Mappings Derived from a
Novel Methodology. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, 3 (4), Article 12, 1-27.
Kuber, R. & Yu, W. 2010: Feasibility Study of Tactile-based Authentication. International
Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 68, 158-181.
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.
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.
Other Peer-Reviewed Publications
Kuber, R., Tretter, M. & Murphy, E. 2011: Developing and Evaluating a Non-Visual Memory Game. In proceedings of INTERACT (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6947), 541–553.
Qian, H., Kuber, R. & Sears, A. 2011: A Longitudinal Pilot Study to Evaluate Non-Visual Icons in a Mobile Exertion Application. In proceedings of INTERACT (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6949), 458–461.
Kuber, R. & Sharma, S. 2010: Toward Tactile Authentication for Blind Users. In proceedings of ASSETS'10, Orlando, USA, 289-290.
Kuber, R. , Yu, W. & O'Modhrain, M.S. 2010: Tactile Browsing for the Blind Community. In proceedings of Haptic Audio Interaction Design (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6306), 75-84.
Kuber, R. & Yu, W. 2010: Tactile vs Graphical Authentication. In proceedings of Eurohaptics (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6191), 314-319.
Qian, H., Kuber, R. & Sears, A. 2010: Maintaining Levels of Activity using a Haptic Personal
Training Application. In Extended Abstracts of CHI'10, Atlanta, USA, 3217-3222.
Qian, H., Kuber, R. & Sears, A. 2009: Towards Identifying Distinguishable Tactons for Use
with Mobile Devices. In proceedings of ASSETS'09, Pittsburgh, USA, 257-258.
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. & Yu, W. 2006: Authentication using Tactile Feedback. In proceedings of
HCI'06 Volume 2, London, UK, 141-145.
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.
Please make contact if you are interested in doing a Senior Project (B.A./B.S.), Independent Study (M.S./Ph.D.), or a Thesis (M.S./Ph.D.) in one or more of the following areas:
Studies relating to technology usage amongst the blind and older adult communities
