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Interventions for Concurrent Brain Injury and Mental Health/Substance Use: Evidence Mapping Review, Equity Examination, & Development of an Interactive Knowledge Mobilization Platform

Kennedy, C. J., Zhao, Y., Spargo, E. L., Dupriez-Mitchell, B., Gavas, N., Rees, D., Premji, Z., Woodin, E., Schmidt, J., Breese Biagioni, J., & Garcia-Barrera, M. A. (2025, February). "Interventions for Concurrent Brain Injury and Mental Health/Substance Use: Evidence Mapping Review, Equity Examination, & Development of an Interactive Knowledge Mobilization Platform." The 53rd Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, New Orleans, LA, USA. (conference poaster presentation).

Speech-based Mark for Data Sonification

Yichun Zhao, Jingyi Lu, and Miguel A. Nacenta. 2024. Speech-based Mark for Data Sonification. In The 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS ’24), October 27–30, 2024, St. John’s, NL, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3663548.3688514

Meta-Analysis of Meta-Analyses on Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation for Post-Stroke Depression

Cole J. Kennedy*, Yichun Zhao*, Mauricio A. Garcia-Barrera (*: Equal Contributions). (2024). "Meta-Analysis of Meta-Analyses on Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation for Post-Stroke Depression." Global Neuropsychology Congress. (conference oral presentation).

TADA: Making Node-link Diagrams Accessible to Blind and Low-Vision People

Zhao, Y., Nacenta, M., Somanath, S., & Sukhai, M. (2024). "TADA: Making Node-link Diagrams Accessible to Blind and Low-Vision People." Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (ACM CHI, paper presentation and honourable mention).

Tools and Tasks in Sensemaking: A Visual Accessibility Perspective

Zhao, Y., Nacenta. (2024). "Tools and Tasks in Sensemaking: A Visual Accessibility Perspective." Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems – Sensemaking Workshop. (ACM CHI workshop presentation).

An Interactive Multi-Touch Audio Interface Makes Diagrams Accessible

Zhao, Y., Nacenta, M., & Somanath, S. (2023). "An Interactive Multi-Touch Audio Interface Makes Diagrams Accessible to People with Visual Impairments." ACM Graphics Interface Conference. (ACM GI, demo presentation, won Best Demonstration Award).

Interactive Sonification for Health and Energy using ChucK and Unity

Zhao, Y., & Tzanetakis, G. (2022). "Interactive Sonification for Health and Energy using ChucK and Unity." Proceedings of the Conference on Sonification of Health and Environmental Data. 57-62. (SoniHED, paper presentation).

Detecting Fake Users on Social Media with a Graph Database

Zhao, Y., & Weber, J. (2021). "Detecting Fake Users on Social Media with a Graph Database." The Arbutus Review. 12(1): 49-56. (paper).

Detecting Fake Users on Social Media with Neo4j and Random Forest Classifier

Zhao, Y. (2020). "Detecting Fake Users on Social Media with Neo4j and Random Forest Classifier." Computing Student Research Conference, Queen’s University; JCURA Research Fair, University of Victoria. (poster).

An Educational Electronic Health Record with a Configurable UI

Shala, F., Wagner, E., & Zhao, Y. (2020). "An Educational Electronic Health Record with a Configurable UI." IF Multidisciplinary Care Conference. (poster, equal contributions).

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