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CHI 26 Forthcoming de Lacerda Pataca, C.*, Patterson, S.*, Peiris, R. L., & Huenerfauth, M. (2026) Fuzzy Feelings: Arousal’s Interpretive Noise and the Case for Acoustic-Based Haptics Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
CHI 26 Forthcoming Hassan, S., Nourian, L., de Lacerda Pataca, C., Olson, M. M., D’aurio, T., Agarwal, K., Asad, S. M. N., & Tigwell, G. W., Huenerfauth, M. (2026) ASL Educators’ Perspectives on AI for Enhancing Student Learning in American Sign Language Education Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

de Lacerda Pataca, C. (2025) Improving the Accessibility of Speech for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Individuals Through Affective Captions (Ph.D. dissertation, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2025). Download
ASSETS 25 de Lacerda Pataca, C.*, Ahn, S.*, Yoo, S.*, Kim, J., Truong, K. N., Hong, J., Peiris, R. L., & Huenerfauth, M. (2025) CuCap: Comparative Analysis of Customized Captioning between North American and South Korean d/Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Users The 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility Presentation
ASSETS 25 Huang, J. Z., de Lacerda Pataca, C., Wu, L., & Jain, D. (2025) CapTune: Adapting Non-Speech Captions with Generative Models The 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility Demo
CHI 25 de Lacerda Pataca, C., Hassan, S., May, L., Olson, M. M., D’aurio, T., Peiris, R. L., & Huenerfauth, M. (2025) Tactile Emotions: Multimodal Affective Captioning with Haptics Improves Narrative Engagement for d/Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Viewers Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Presentation

TACCESS Hassan, S., de Lacerda Pataca, C., Amin, A. A., Nourian, L., Navarro, D., Lee, S., Gordon, A., Watkins, M., Tigwell, G. W., & Huenerfauth, M. (2024) Exploring the Benefits and Applications of Video-Span Selection and Search for Real-Time Support in Sign Language Video Comprehension among ASL Learners
CHI 24 Honorable Mention de Lacerda Pataca, C., Hassan, S., Tinker, N., Peiris, R. L., & Huenerfauth, M. (2024) Caption Royale: Exploring the Design Space of Affective Captions from the Perspective of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Individuals Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Presentation
CHI 24 Honorable Mention Hassan, S., de Lacerda Pataca, C., Nourian, L., Tigwell, G. W., Davis, B., & Wagman, W. Z. S. (2024) Designing and Evaluating an Advanced Dance Video Comprehension Tool with In-situ Move Identification Capabilities Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

CHI 23 de Lacerda Pataca, C., Watkins, M. P., Peiris, R. L., Lee, S., & Huenerfauth, M. (2023) Visualization of Speech Prosody and Emotion in Captions: Accessibility for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Users Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Presentation
IEEE T AFFECT COMPUT de Lacerda Pataca, C. & Costa, P. D. P. (2023) Hidden bawls, whispers, and yelps: can text convey the sound of speech, beyond words IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing

ASSETS 22 Best Paper Nomination Hassan, S.*, Amin, A. A.*, de Lacerda Pataca, C.*, Navarro, D., Gordon, A., Lee, S., & Huenerfauth, M. (2022) Support in the Moment: Benefits and use of video-span selection and search for sign-language video comprehension among ASL learners The 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

de Lacerda Pataca, C. (2021) Speech-modulated typography (Master’s thesis, University of Campinas, 2021). Download

IUI 20 de Lacerda Pataca, C. & Costa, P. D. P. (2020) Speech modulated typography: towards an affective representation model Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

CIDI de Lacerda Pataca, C. & Costa, P. D. P. (2019) Tipografia modulada pela fala: avaliação de um algoritmo de geração de prosódia visual em textos Download