My name is Ben. I am a Lecturer in Computer Science at Bournemouth University, where I research Accessibility and HCI.

Emoji Accessibility for Visually Impaired People

Garreth W. Tigwell, Benjamin M. Gorman, Rachel Menzies, CHI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2020

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, Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CSCW Conference, ACM, 2019

Addressing the Challenges of Situationally-Induced Impairments and Disabilities in Mobile Interaction

Garreth W. Tigwell, Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, Benjamin M Gorman, David R. Flatla, Jorge Gonçalves, Yeliz Yeşilada, and Jacob O Wobbrock, Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems ACM, 2019

Crafting a CHI Rebuttal

CHI allows authors to respond to reviewer's feedback through a rebuttal. However, unlike writing your paper, you are not given a lot of time (or characters!) to craft your CHI Rebuttal. Here I share my process and tips!

Posting to Twitter with an Arduino via Processing using Twitter4j

Recently I had to teach my students how produce a physical computing device using Arduino which talked to Twitter. This tutorial shows you how to let your Arduino communicate with Processing over serial, which then talks to Twitter.

Converting .wav files for use with Pocketsphinx

When using Pocketsphinx, you are required to have your audio files in a specific format. Using Audacity for this task works but it sucks. Lets write a bash script to save time!