| 2026 | CHI | Understanding the Feasibility of Auditory Hand-Steering Guidance for Blind and Low-Vision People. | Yuki Abe, Rose Xin Lin, Kotaro Hara, Daisuke Sakamoto |
| 2026 | CHI | TacChat: Exploring User Generation and Accessible Sharing via Tactile Graphics for the Blind and Visually Impaired. | Yuewen Zhang, Danning Li, Kexin Zhou, Pu Jiang, Jingyang Lyu, Kotaro Hara, Baoshui Chen, Shuai Gao, Yang Jiao |
| 2026 | HRI | Navigation beyond Wayfinding: Robots Collaborating with Visually Impaired Users for Environmental Interactions. | Shaojun Cai, Nuwan Janaka, Ashwin Ram, Janidu Shehan, Yingjia Wan, Kotaro Hara, David Hsu |
| 2025 | AAAI | SPASCA: Social Presence and Support with Conversational Agent for Persons Living with Dementia. | Ali Kksal, Jingjing Gu, Kotaro Hara, Jing Jiang, Joo-Hwee Lim, Qianli Xu |
| 2025 | ASSETS | Tactile Data Comics: Combining Step-by-step Presentation of Tactile Graphics with Verbal Narration for the Blind and Visually Impaired. | Yang Jiao, Ruoting Sun, Rong Luo, Xiwen Yao, Xinran She, Kotaro Hara, Yuewen Zhang, Xinyi Fu |
| 2025 | CHI | Exploring Auditory Hand Guidance for Eyes-free 3D Path Tracing. | Yuki Abe, Kotaro Hara, Daisuke Sakamoto, Tetsuo Ono |
| 2025 | CHI | "I can run at night!": Using Augmented Reality to Support Nighttime Guided Running for Low-vision Runners. | Yuki Abe, Keisuke Matsushima, Kotaro Hara, Daisuke Sakamoto, Tetsuo Ono |
| 2025 | CHI | Tactile Data Comics: A Step-by-step Multimodal Presentation Method on a Refreshable Tactile Display for Blind and Visually Impaired Individuals. | Ruoting Sun, Rong Luo, Xiwen Yao, Xinran She, Kotaro Hara, Yang Jiao |
| 2024 | ASSETS | Exploring Conversations between a Practitioner and a Person with Dementia. | Kotaro Hara, Rosiana Natalie, Wei Soon Cheong, Jingjing Gu, Qianli Xu |
| 2024 | ASSETS | Audio Description Customization. | Rosiana Natalie, Ruei-Che Chang, Smitha Sheshadri, Anhong Guo, Kotaro Hara |
| 2024 | CHI | Navigating Real-World Challenges: A Quadruped Robot Guiding System for Visually Impaired People in Diverse Environments. | Shaojun Cai, Ashwin Ram, Zhengtai Gou, Mohd Alqama Wasim Shaikh, Yu-An Chen, Yingjia Wan, Kotaro Hara, Shengdong Zhao, David Hsu |
| 2024 | CHI | SwapVid: Integrating Video Viewing and Document Exploration with Direct Manipulation. | Taichi Murakami, Kazuyuki Fujita, Kotaro Hara, Kazuki Takashima, Yoshifumi Kitamura |
| 2023 | CHI | Supporting Novices Author Audio Descriptions via Automatic Feedback. | Rosiana Natalie, Joshua Tseng, Hernisa Kacorri, Kotaro Hara |
| 2022 | ASSETS | Investigating Accessibility Challenges and Opportunities for Users with Low Vision Disabilities in Customer-to-Customer (C2C) Marketplaces. | Bektur Ryskeldiev, Kotaro Hara, Mariko Kobayashi, Koki Kusano |
| 2022 | CHI | Understanding Crowdsourcing Requesters' Wage Setting Behaviors. | Kotaro Hara, Yudai Tanaka |
| 2022 | CHI | Feasibility Studies in Indoor Localization through Intelligent Conversation. | Smitha Sheshadri, Linus Xin Wei Cheng, Kotaro Hara |
| 2021 | ASSETS | The Efficacy of Collaborative Authoring of Video Scene Descriptions. | Rosiana Natalie, Jolene Loh, Huei Suen Tan, Joshua Tseng, Ian Luke Yi-Ren Chan, Ebrima H. Jarjue, Hernisa Kacorri, Kotaro Hara |
| 2021 | ASSETS | Uncovering Patterns in Reviewers' Feedback to Scene Description Authors. | Rosiana Natalie, Jolene Loh, Huei Suen Tan, Joshua Tseng, Hernisa Kacorri, Kotaro Hara |
| 2021 | ASSETS | Visionary Caption: Improving the Accessibility of Presentation Slides Through Highlighting Visualization. | Carmen Yip, Jie Mi Chong, Sin Yee Kwek, Yong Wang, Kotaro Hara |
| 2020 | ASSETS | ViScene: A Collaborative Authoring Tool for Scene Descriptions in Videos. | Rosiana Natalie, Ebrima Jarjue, Hernisa Kacorri, Kotaro Hara |
| 2020 | CHI | Techniques to Visualize Occluded Graph Elements for 2.5D Map Editing. | Kazuyuki Fujita, Daigo Hayashi, Kotaro Hara, Kazuki Takashima, Yoshifumi Kitamura |
| 2019 | CHI | Worker Demographics and Earnings on Amazon Mechanical Turk: An Exploratory Analysis. | Kotaro Hara, Abigail Adams, Kristy Milland, Saiph Savage, Benjamin V. Hanrahan, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Chris Callison-Burch |
| 2019 | CHI | Project Sidewalk: A Web-based Crowdsourcing Tool for Collecting Sidewalk Accessibility Data At Scale. | Manaswi Saha, Michael Saugstad, Hanuma Teja Maddali, Aileen Zeng, Ryan Holland, Steven Bower, Aditya Dash, Sage Chen, Anthony Li, Kotaro Hara, Jon Froehlich |
| 2018 | CHI | A Data-Driven Analysis of Workers' Earnings on Amazon Mechanical Turk. | Kotaro Hara, Abigail Adams, Kristy Milland, Saiph Savage, Chris Callison-Burch, Jeffrey P. Bigham |
| 2018 | HCOMP | Striving to Earn More: A Survey of Work Strategies and Tool Use Among Crowd Workers. | Toni Kaplan, Susumu Saito, Kotaro Hara, Jeffrey P. Bigham |
| 2017 | ASSETS | Introducing People with ASD to Crowd Work. | Kotaro Hara, Jeffrey P. Bigham |
| 2017 | ASSETS | A Pilot Deployment of an Online Tool for Large-Scale Virtual Auditing of Urban Accessibility. | Manaswi Saha, Kotaro Hara, Soheil Behnezhad, Anthony Li, Michael Saugstad, Hanuma Teja Maddali, Sage Chen, Jon E. Froehlich |
| 2016 | CHI | The Design of Assistive Location-based Technologies for People with Ambulatory Disabilities: A Formative Study. | Kotaro Hara, Christine Chan, Jon E. Froehlich |
| 2015 | CHI | Effect of Machine Translation in Interlingual Conversation: Lessons from a Formative Study. | Kotaro Hara, Shamsi T. Iqbal |
| 2015 | WWW | FluTCHA: Using Fluency to Distinguish Humans from Computers. | Kotaro Hara, Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi, Benjamin B. Bederson |
| 2014 | HCOMP | Low Effort Crowdsourcing: Leveraging Peripheral Attention for Crowd Work. | Rajan Vaish, Peter Organisciak, Kotaro Hara, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Haoqi Zhang |
| 2014 | UIST | Scalable methods to collect and visualize sidewalk accessibility data for people with mobility impairments. | Kotaro Hara |
| 2014 | UIST | Tohme: detecting curb ramps in google street view using crowdsourcing, computer vision, and machine learning. | Kotaro Hara, Jin Sun, Robert Moore, David W. Jacobs, Jon Froehlich |
| 2013 | ASSETS | Improving public transit accessibility for blind riders by crowdsourcing bus stop landmark locations with Google street view. | Kotaro Hara, Shiri Azenkot, Megan Campbell, Cynthia L. Bennett, Vicki Le, Sean Pannella, Robert Moore, Kelly Minckler, Rochelle H. Ng, Jon Froehlich |
| 2013 | CHI | Combining crowdsourcing and google street view to identify street-level accessibility problems. | Kotaro Hara, Vicki Le, Jon Froehlich |
| 2013 | HCOMP | An Initial Study of Automatic Curb Ramp Detection with Crowdsourced Verification Using Google Street View Images. | Kotaro Hara, Jin Sun, Jonah Chazan, David W. Jacobs, Jon Froehlich |
| 2012 | ASSETS | A feasibility study of crowdsourcing and google street view to determine sidewalk accessibility. | Kotaro Hara, Victoria Le, Jon Froehlich |