Raja Kushalnagar

College of Art and Design College of Engineering Technology College of Health Sciences and Technology College of Liberal Arts College of Science Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences International Campuses Kate Gleason College of Engineering National Technical Institute for the Deaf School of Individualized Study

Raja Kushalnagar

Assistant Professor
National Technical Institute for the Deaf
Information and Computing Studies

2014 Submissions

Journal Paper

Kushalnagar, Raja S., Walter S. Lasecki, and Jeffrey P. Bigham. "Accessibility Evaluation of Classroom Captions." ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing 5. 3 (2014): 1-24. Print. *

Adler, Henry, et al. "Undergraduate Research in Mathematics with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students: Four Perspectives." Involve: A Journal Of Mathematics 7. 3 (2014): 247-264. Print. *

Published Conference Proceedings

Kushalnagar, Raja S., et al. "AVD-LV: An Accessible Player for Captioned Stem Videos." Proceedings of the 16th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility - ASSETS '14, October 22-24, 2014, Rochester, NY. Ed. ACM. NY, NY: ACM, Print. *

Lasecki, Walter S., Raja S. Kushalnagar, and Jeffrey P. Bigham. "Legion Scribe." Proceedings of the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility - ASSETS '14, October 22-24, 2014, Rochester, NY. Ed. ACM. NY, NY: ACM, Print. *

Kushalnagar, Raja S., Ramachandran Vignesh, and Tae Oh. "Tactile Captions: Augmenting Visual Captions." Proceedings of the International Conference on Computers Helping People. Ed. Arthur Karshmer. Paris, France: Springer International Publishing, 2014. Web. *

Kushalnagar, Raja S. and Poorna Kushalnagar. "Live and Collaborative Gaze Review for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students." Proceedings of the International Conference on Computers Helping People. Ed. Arthur Karshmer. Paris, France: Springer International Publishing, 2014. Print. *

Kushalnagar, Raja S. and Karen J. Beiter. "Optimal Viewing Distance for Deaf Signers." Proceedings of the Annual International Technology & Persons With Disabilities Conference. Ed. CSUN. Northridge, CA: n.p., 2014. Web. *

Kushalnagar, Raja S., et al. "Enhancing Caption Accessibility Through Simultaneous Multimodal Information: Visual-Tactile Captions." Proceedings of the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility - ASSETS '14. Ed. ACM. Rochester, NY: ACM, Print. *

2013 Submissions

Journal Paper

Humphries, Tom, et al. "The Right to Language." The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics : A Journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics 41. 4 (2013): 872-884. Print. *

Published Conference Proceedings

Kushalnagar, Raja S., Walter S. Lasecki, and Jeffrey P. Bigham. "Captions Versus Transcripts for Online Video Content." Proceedings of the 10th International Cross-Disclipinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A), Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Ed. ACM. New York, NY: ACM, Print. * £

Kushalnagar, Raja S., David E. Lawrence, and Elissa M. Olsen. "A Transition Community for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students in Information Technology Programs." Proceedings of the 14th conference on Information Technology Education and Research - SIGITE 2013. Ed. ACM. Orlando, FL: ACM, Print. * £

Kushalnagar, Raja S., et al. "American Sign Language: Maximum Live Replay Speed." Proceedings of the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America, Baltimore, MD. Ed. RESNA. Washington, DC: RESNA, 2012. Web. * £

Lasecki, Walter S., et al. "Legion Scribe: Real-Time Captioning by the Non-Experts." Proceedings of the 10th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A), Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Ed. ACM. New York, NY: ACM, 2013. Print. * £

Stanislow, Joseph S. and Raja S. Kushalnagar. "Adapting STEM Lectures for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Classrooms." Proceedings of the Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC), 2013 IEEE, Princeton, NJ. Ed. IEEE. Princeton, NJ: IEEE, 2013. Print. * £

Published Game, Application or Software

Kushalnagar, Raja S. Accessible Viewing Device. Phone or Smart Device App. NTID. 2013.

2012 Submissions

Book Chapter

Rashid, Khadijat, Poorna Kushalnagar, and Raja Kushalnagar. "How Deaf Adult Signers Experience Implants: Some Preliminary Conclusions." Cochlear Implants: Evolving Perspectives. Ed. Raylene Paludneviciene and Irene W. Leigh. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2012. 45-59. Web. ˜

Published Conference Proceedings

Kushalnagar, Raja S., Poorna Kushalnagar, and Jeffrey B. Pelz. "Deaf and Hearing Students? Eye Gaze Collaboration." Proceedings of the International Conference on Computers Helping People. Ed. Klaus Miesenberger and Arthur Karshmer. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag Berlin, 1012. Web. *

Kushalnagar, Poorna., Benjamin P. Williams, and Raja Kushalnagar. "Community-Based Participatory Approach: Students as Partners in Educational Accessible Technology Research." Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computers Helping People. Ed. Klaus Misenberger and Arthur Karshmer. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag Berlin, 2012. Web. *

Kushalnagar, Raja S., Brian P. Trager, and Karen P. Beiter. "Assistive View Replay for Deaf Students." Proceedings of the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA) Annual Conference 2012. Baltimore, MD: n.p., 2012. Web. *

Kushalnagar, Raja S. and Joseph S. Stanislow. "Maximizing Content Learning for Deaf Students and English as a Second Language Students." Proceedings of the 43rd ACM Technical Symposium for Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education. Ed. Unknown. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2012. Print. *

Kushalnagar, Raja S., Poorna Kushalnagar, and Gianni Manganelli. "Collaborative Gaze Cues for Deaf Students." Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). Ed. Unknown. Seattle, WA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2012. Web. *

Phadtare, Lalit K., Raja S. Kushalnagar, and Nathan D. Cahill. "Detecting Hand-palm Orientation and Hand Shapes for Sign Language Gesture Recognition Using 3D Images." Proceedings of the Image Processing Workshop (WNYIPW), 2012 Western New York, Rochester, NY. Ed. IEEE. Rochester, NY: IEEE, 2012. Print. * £

Kushalnagar, Raja S., Walter S. Lasecki, and Jeffrey P. Bigham. "A Readability Evaluation of Real-Time Crowd Captions in the Classroom." Proceedings of the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Denver, CO. Ed. ACM. New York, NY: ACM, 2012. Print. * £

Kushalnagar, Raja S., Walter S. Lasecki, and Jeffrey P. Bigham. "A Readability Evaluation of Real-Time Crowd Captions in the Classroom." Proceedings of the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Denver, CO. Ed. ACM. New York, NY: ACM, 2012. Print. * £

Lasecki, Walter S., et al. "Real-time Captioning by Groups of Non-experts." Proceedings of the UIST '12 Proceedings of the 25th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, St. Andrews, UK. Ed. ACM. New York, NY: ACM, 2012. Print. * £

Cahill, LK Phadtare, RS Kushalnagar, ND. "Detecting Hand-Palm Orientation and Hand Shapes for Sign Language Gesture Recognition Using 3D Images." Proceedings of the 2012 Western New York Image Processing Workshop. Ed. Dhiraj Joshi. Rochester, NY: IEEE, 2012. Web. *

Invited Keynote/Presentation

Kushalnagar, Raja S. "Mobile Accessible Technology Research." 2012 Academic Careers Workshop for Underrepresented Participants. NSF, CMD-IT, CDC, CAHSI, and AccessComputing. Atlanta, GA. 15 Mar. 2012. Conference Presentation.

Kushalnagar, Raja S. "Mobile Accessible Technology." Center for Learning Technology. Ryerson University. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 9 Apr. 2012. Guest Lecture.

Kushalnagar, Raja S. "Accessible Viewing Device: Enhancing Classroom Access." NTID Dept. of Research and Teacher Education Seminar Series. Rochester Institute of Technology/NTID. Rochester, NY. 25 Mar. 2012. Guest Lecture.

2010 Submissions

Formal Presentation

Kushalnagar, Raja. “Empowering Mainstreamed Deaf Students with Multiple Video Perspectives.” International Symposium in Technology and Deaf Education, NTID at RIT. Rochester, NY. 23 June 2010. Presentation.

Published Article

Kushalnagar, Raja S., and J. Paris. “Evaluation of a Scalable and Distributed Mobile Device Video Recording Approach for Accessible Presentations.” Proc. of IPCCC 2010: The 29th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conf., Albuquerque, NM. 9-11 Dec. 2010. 81-88. Print. *

Kushalnagar, Raja S., A.C. Cavender, and J. Paris. “Multiple View Perspectives: Improving Inclusiveness and Video Compression in Mainstream Classroom Recordings.” Proceeding ASSETS ‘10, Proceeedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conferemce on Computers and Accessibility. Orlando, FL. 25-27 Oct 2010. 123-130. Web. *

Kushalnagar, Raja S., and Jehan-Francois Paris. “Multiple View Scalability of Presentations Distributed to Heterogeneous Devices.” Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS). Proc. of SPECTS 2010: 2010 International Symposium, University of Houston. Houston, TX. 11-14 July 2010. 7-13. IEEE. Web. *

Kushalnagar, Raja. “A Comparison of P2P Approaches in Handling Multiple Video Perspective Streams by Mobile Devices to Support a More Inclusive Environment.” Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops). 2010 8th IEEE International Conference, Universitate Trier. Mannheim, Germany. 29 Mar. - 2 Apr. 2010. 855-56. IEEE. Web. *