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  1. Bridging the Digital Divide: Enhancing Digital Inclusion of Blind or Partially Sighted and Deaf or Hard of Hearing Individuals in Low and Middle Income Countries through Smartphones as Assistive Technology

    Article • ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, December 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Maryam Bandukda, Catherine Holloway, Satish Mishra, Giulia Barbareschi

  2. Conscious or Unconscious Meditation? Haptic Interaction Design in Meditation Augmentation Using Physiological Sensing

    Article • October 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giulia Barbareschi, KANYU CHEN

  3. EchoSense: Frontal Haptic Navigation in VR towards Biomimetic Empathy

    Article • October 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ximing Shen, Giulia Barbareschi

  4. TIEboard: A Digital Educational Tool for Kids Geometric Learning

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, June 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giulia Barbareschi

  5. “Together with Who?” Recognizing Partners during Collaborative Avatar Manipulation

    Article • ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giulia Barbareschi

  6. Scaffolding Digital Literacy Through Digital Skills Training for Disabled People in the Global South

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Maryam Bandukda, Giulia Barbareschi, Tigmanshu Bhatnagar, Catherine Holloway

  7. Building Collaborative Art Creation Environment for People with Intellectual Disabilities through Adaptive Fabric Art Workshops

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giulia Barbareschi

  8. Brain Body Jockey project: Transcending Bodily Limitations in Live Performance via Human Augmentation

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giulia Barbareschi, Mark Armstrong

  9. SeaHare: An omidirectional electric wheelchair integrating independent, remote and shared control modalities

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giulia Barbareschi

  10. mobiCHAI - 1st International Workshop on Mobile Cognition-Altering Technologies (CAT) using Human-Centered AI

    Article • September 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giulia Barbareschi

  11. "Speech is Silver, Silence is Golden " Analyzing Micro-communication Strategies between Visually Impaired Runners and their Guides

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giulia Barbareschi

  12. Maintaining Continuing Bonds in Bereavement: A Participatory Design Process of Be.side

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giulia Barbareschi

  13. Enhancing Communication Equity: Evaluation of an Automated Speech Recognition Application in Ghana

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giulia Barbareschi, Richard Cave, Catherine Holloway

  14. People with Disabilities Redefining Identity through Robotic and Virtual Avatars: A Case Study in Avatar Robot Cafe

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giulia Barbareschi

  15. Transforming HCI Research Cycles using Generative AI and “Large Whatever Models” (LWMs)

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giulia Barbareschi, Fiona Draxler, Professor Antti Oulasvirta, Anicia Peters, Elizabeth Churchill, Jie Li

  16. Empathy-Building Through Personalized Pixel Crafting: A Co-Creation Platform for Researchers and Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Chen sifan, Giulia Barbareschi

  17. Synced Drift: A Novel Sport Using a System that Harmonises Human Movement to Transcend Distance and Ability

    Article • November 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giulia Barbareschi

  18. BeadMuse AI: Enhancing Inclusive and Independent Crafting Through Adaptive Pixel Art Templates

    Article • November 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giulia Barbareschi, Chen sifan

  19. Enhancing Self-Reflection in Older Adults through Collage Making

    Article • November 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giulia Barbareschi

  20. Exploring Digital Embodiment in Wheelchair Dance with Generative AI

    Article • November 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giulia Barbareschi

  21. Towards Greater Inclusion and Accessibility for Physically Disabled Players in Location-Based Games

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, September 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giulia Barbareschi, Maximillian Clark

  22. Movement Quality Visualization for Wheelchair Dance

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, August 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giulia Barbareschi

  23. “I am both here and there” Parallel Control of Multiple Robotic Avatars by Disabled Workers in a Café

    Article • April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giulia Barbareschi

  24. Inclusive HRI II

    Article • March 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giulia Barbareschi, Giulia Perugia, Dr. Katie Seaborn

  25. Experience Visual Impairment via Optical See-through Smart Glasses

    Article • October 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giulia Barbareschi

  26. A Workshop on Disability Inclusive Remote Co-Design

    Article • October 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Maryam Bandukda, Dhruv Jain, Dr. Tamanna Motahar, David Frohlich, Catherine Holloway, Giulia Barbareschi

  27. Assistive or Artistic Technologies? Exploring the Connections between Art, Disability and Wheelchair Use

    Article • October 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giulia Barbareschi