List of publications

Note: (*) denotes equal contribution

  • Yong-Joon Thoo, Karim Aebischer, Nicolas Ruffieux, and Denis Lalanne. 2026. Real-Time Object Detection and Augmented Reality to Support Low-Vision Navigation and Object Localization: A Demonstration. To appear in ACM AlpCHI'26.

  • Yong-Joon Thoo, Karim Aebischer, Nicolas Ruffieux, and Denis Lalanne. 2025. Enhancing Therapist-Guided Low-Vision Training with Projected Gaze Behaviors in Co-Located Shared AR. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 15, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1145/3694907.3765924

  • Yong-Joon Thoo, Karim Aebischer, Nicolas Ruffieux, and Denis Lalanne. 2025. Exploring Shared Augmented Reality for Low-Vision Training of Activities of Daily Living. In Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 31, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3663547.3746371

  • Maximiliano Jeanneret Medina*, Yong-Joon Thoo*, Cédric Baudet, Jon E. Froehlich, Nicolas Ruffieux, and Denis Lalanne. 2025. Understanding Research Themes and Interactions at Scale within Blind and Low-vision Research in ACM and IEEE. ACM Trans. Access. Comput. 18, 2, Article 7 (June 2025), 46 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3726531

  • Yong-Joon Thoo*, Maximiliano Jeanneret Medina*, Jon E. Froehlich, Nicolas Ruffieux, and Denis Lalanne. 2023. A Large-Scale Mixed-Methods Analysis of Blind and Low-vision Research in ACM and IEEE. In Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 20, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3597638.3608412

Conference Presentations and Videos

  • (To appear in ACM AlpCHI'26) Yong-Joon Thoo, Karim Aebischer, Nicolas Ruffieux, and Denis Lalanne. 2026. Real-Time Object Detection and Augmented Reality to Support Low-Vision Navigation and Object Localization: A Demonstration. [project page and video]

  • Thoo et al. 2025. Enhancing Therapist-Guided Low-Vision Training with Projected Gaze Behaviors in Co-Located Shared AR. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI '25) [paper | slides | video]

  • Thoo et al. 2025. Exploring Shared Augmented Reality for Low-Vision Training of Activities of Daily Living. In Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '25) [paper | slides | video]

  • Thoo et al. 2023. A Large-Scale Mixed-Methods Analysis of Blind and Low-vision Research in ACM and IEEE. In Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '23) [paper | slides]