Publications

AI, HCI, Accessibility

“I Want to Publicize My Stutter”: Community-led Collection and Curation of Chinese Stuttered Speech Data. Qisheng Li, Shaomei Wu. Under Review. 2024. [manuscript]
Towards Fair and Inclusive Speech Recognition for Stuttering: Community-led Chinese Stuttered Speech Dataset Creation and Benchmarking. Qisheng Li, Shaomei Wu. In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’24). [pdf]
Finding My Voice over Zoom: An Autoethnography of Videoconferencing Experience for a Person Who Stutters. Shaomei Wu, Jingjin Li, and Gilly Leshed. In Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024). [pdf]
Conference Tutorial: Inclusive and Fair Automatic Speech Recognition with People Who Stutter. Shaomei Wu, Y. Scott Yaruss, Rong Gong, Ann Marie Ryan, Hope Gerlach-Houck, Caryn Herring, and Nihar R. Mahapatra. Tutorial Proposal. 2023. [pdf]
"The World is Designed for Fluent People": Benefits and Challenges of Videoconferencing Technologies for People Who Stutter. Shaomei Wu. In Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2023). [preprint, video, slides]
Design and Evaluation of a Social Media Writing Support Tool for People with Dyslexia. Shaomei Wu, Lindsay Reynolds, Xian Li, Francisco (Paco) Guzman. In Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2019) [pdf]
Addressing the Accessibility of Social Media. Cole Gleason, Patrick Carrington, Lydia B Chilton, Benjamin M Gorman, Hernisa Kacorri, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Meredith Ringel Morris, Garreth W Tigwell, and Shaomei Wu. CSCW 2019 Extended Abstract. [pdf]
"I'm Never Happy with What I Write": Challenges and Strategies of People with Dyslexia on Social Media. Lindsay Reynolds, Shaomei Wu. In Proceedings of the 12th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2018)}. Best Paper Runner-up [pdf]
The Effect of Computer-Generated Descriptions on Photo-Sharing Experiences of People with Visual Impairments. Yuhang Zhao, Shaomei Wu, Lindsay Reynolds, Shiri Azenkot. In Proceedings of the 21th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work \& Social Computing (CSCW 2018). [pdf] [blog post]
A Face Recognition Application for People with Visual Impairments: Understanding Use Beyond the Lab. Yuhang Zhao, Shaomei Wu, Lindsay Reynolds, Shiri Azenkot. In Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2018). [pdf] [blog post].
Automatic Alt-text: Computer-generated Image Descriptions for Blind Users on a Social Network Service. Shaomei Wu, Jeffrey Wieland, Omid Farivar, Julie Schiller. In Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW 2017). [pdf] [demo video] [user video] [blog post]
How Blind People Interact with Visual Content on Social Networking Services. Violeta Voykinska, Shiri Azenkot, Shaomei Wu, and Gilly Leshed. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW 2016). [pdf] [blog post]
Visually Impaired Users on an Online Social Network. Shaomei Wu, Lada Adamic. In Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2014). [pdf]

Social Media and Data Science

Mapping Language Literacy At Scale: A Case Study on Facebook. Yu-Ru Lin, Shaomei Wu, and Winter Mason. EPJ Data Sci. 12, 13 (2023). [Open Access, pdf]
The Lifecycles of Apps in a Social Ecosystem. Isabel Kloumann, Lada Adamic, Jon Kleinberg, and Shaomei Wu. In Proceedings of the 24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2015). [pdf]
Arrival and Departure Dynamics in Social Networks. Shaomei Wu, Atish Das Sarma, Alex Fabrikant, Silvio Lattanzi, and Andrew Tomkins. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2013) [pdf]
Does Bad News Go Away Faster? Shaomei Wu, Chenhao Tan, Jon Kleinberg, and Michael Macy. In Proceedings of the 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2011). Short paper. [pdf]
Who Says What to Whom on Twitter. Shaomei Wu, Jake M. Hofman, Winter A. Mason, and Duncan J. Watts. In Proceedings of the 20th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2011) [pdf]
Mining Collective Local Knowledge from Google MyMaps. Shaomei Wu, Shenwei Liu, Dan Cosley, and Michael Macy. In Proceedings of the 20th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2011) [pdf]