daniel's research twt // phd student @WisconsinCS using #ai to improve #xr #a11y with @YuhangZhao1 // BSCS @UTCompSci @texasimmersive
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7 Oct 2025
heard it here first but vrsight is now open-source :)
๐ github.com/MadisonAbilityLabโฆ
19 Sep 2025
What if blind users could explore any VR app without waiting for developers to add accessibility features?
We present VRSight: an AI-driven "3D screen reader" that transforms visual VR scenes into spatial audio descriptions ๐ง@ACMUIST #UIST2025
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And weโre off!!๐ #UIST2025 is officially underwayโจ
ALT Attendees at the opening keynote.
ALT Meeyoung Cha, opening keynote speaker, at the podium.
ALT Student volunteers registering attendees at the desk.
ALT General Chairs on the podium at the opening remarks.
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Welcome to join our public @ACMUIST notes: docs.google.com/document/d/1โฆ #crowdsource great memories together :)
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Our SVs are ready to welcome you to #UIST2025 ๐
Registration opens at 8 AM on Monday and will be busy โ come early to skip the rush. Plus, weโve got limited breakfast service waiting for early arrivals! ๐ฝ๏ธโจ
ALT Student volunteers at the registration desk.
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19 Sep 2025
Very excited to present and demonstrate VRSight at #UIST2025 in Busan this month! We plan to open-source everythingโthe VRSight system, DISCOVR dataset, and trained object detection model weights. Coming very soon!
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19 Sep 2025
๐ Read our preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2508.02958
And many thanks to my collaborators Justin Feng, ZX Ching, Daniel Wang, Rithvik Dyava, and @YuhangZhao1 at @UWMadison @WisconsinCS, @YapengTian at @UT_Dallas, and support from the @NSF!
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Our webinar "Towards Building Accessible Virtual Worlds: XR for All and VRSight" with @_dekilo of @UWMadison will be starting in just 15 minutes!
xraccess.org/towards-buildinโฆ
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14 Jul 2025
Please join us if you're interested in seeing how we're identifying AR/VR developers' challenges making their apps accessible and/or how we're using AI/CV tools to help blind and low vision people try VR!
14 Jul 2025
Excited to announce I'll be presenting two of my XR accessibility projects (XR for All and VRSight) this Wednesday, July 16th at 12pm CT with @XRAccess ! xraccess.org/towards-buildinโฆ :)
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14 Jul 2025
Excited to announce I'll be presenting two of my XR accessibility projects (XR for All and VRSight) this Wednesday, July 16th at 12pm CT with @XRAccess ! xraccess.org/towards-buildinโฆ :)
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14 Jul 2025
Please join us if you're interested in seeing how we're identifying AR/VR developers' challenges making their apps accessible and/or how we're using AI/CV tools to help blind and low vision people try VR!
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Daniel Killough ๐ Google retweeted
27 Apr 2025
CHI 2025 paper alert! ๐
This year at #CHI2025, my lab will be presenting three full papers, an interactivity, and a poster on #Accessibility, #ARVR, and #AI topics!
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Daniel Killough ๐ Google retweeted
27 Apr 2025
(4) VRSight, an AI-driven scene exploration system that enables VR a11y for blind users without developer integration, by @_dekilo; and (5) Understanding user tolerance in MR drift by @chenruijia120 and @_dekilo. We look forward to meeting you and discussing the research!!!
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Daniel Killough ๐ Google retweeted
5 Dec 2024
HI league/val/gaming twitter ~
Iโm inviting WOMEN to talk about experiences with toxicity in ANY competitive video game.
All ranks/experience welcome!
Participants may earn $20 for a 30-60 min Zoom interview session. Please visit the link below !!
RTs very appreciated~~
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21 Oct 2024
(and please forward any HCI-related PhD research internships for summer 2025 you know of! primarily seeking #hci #xr #a11y #ux or anything you think I'd be interested in๐)
@ me for a private CV with my in-submission work or check out the public one at dkillough.com/cv :)
21 Oct 2024
Refreshed the look & feel of my personal website -- built mostly from scratch with full webVR support coming soonโข๏ธ... but I have research internships to apply for first ๐
check it out! ๐ dkillough.com
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21 Oct 2024
Refreshed the look & feel of my personal website -- built mostly from scratch with full webVR support coming soonโข๏ธ... but I have research internships to apply for first ๐
check it out! ๐ dkillough.com
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Daniel Killough ๐ Google retweeted
16 Jul 2024
Professor Tom Reps retires after 39 years of research and mentorship.
Dubbed "the soul of the department" by colleagues, his parting gift is a new professorship honoring late wife (and CS Professor Emerita) Susan B. Horwitz.
Get the full story: cs.wisc.edu/2024/07/16/profeโฆ
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