Hi 👋 - I'm Joon, a researcher focused on making the world more accessible.

Ph.D. Student @ Carnegie Mellon University, Human-Computer Interaction Institute

I'm a Ph.D. student at CMU's School of Computer Science, advised by Patrick Carrington and Andrew Begel. I focus on understanding, designing, and building AI-equipped assistive technology (AT) and how such tools affect and alter existing social dynamics in intro- and extra-spective ways – tackling stigma, user-assimilation, and the AT adoption/abandonment problem through my research.

Recent Updates

2026 Feb - 🎉 Two papers accepted to CHI `26! Three Praxes Framework and Relational Sovereignty — two theoretical contributions advancing how we think about social accessibility and assistive technology design. More details coming soon!
2025 Nov - 🎤 College Autism Summit `25 @ Pittsburgh - Presented on progress and findings from the PAS4AI (Preparing Autistic Students for the AI Workforce) project.
2025 Oct - 🏆 Selected as a finalist for the Johnson & Johnson Access-Ability Lime Scholarship!
2025 Jun - 🎉 3 papers presented (1 to FSE `25, 2 to ASEE `25) on ongoing work for the NSF Grant Project: Preparing Autistic Students for the AI Workforce.

Featured Research

It's the only thing I can trust - Envisioning Large Language Model Use by Autistic Workers for Communication Assistance
paper A11y autism large-language-models human-ai-interaction workplace social-communication
J.W. Jang, S. Moharana, P. Carrington, A. Begel
CHI 24: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A study understanding autistic workers' preferences for social advice from LLMs, and sociotechnical implications from findings that LLM advice was indeed preferred over a humans'.
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I Should Feel Like I’m In Control - Understanding Expectations, Concerns, and Motivations for the Use of Autonomous Navigation on Wheelchairs
poster A11y wheelchair autonomous-navigation
J.W. Jang, Y. Li, P. Carrington
ASSETS 22: Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
A preliminary analysis to understand the uses, needs, and design considerations for an autonomous wheelchair navigation UX.
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🏅 Rich Screen Reader Experiences for Accessible Data Visualization
paper A11y data-visualization screen-readers
J. Zong*, C. Lee*, A. Lundgard*, J.W. Jang, D. Hajas, A. Satyanarayan
Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis) 2022
Ascertaining the design space possibilities for screen-reader accessible data visualizations.
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Blog Posts

Published on
January 9, 2023
First Blog Post! 🥳
A11y setup web
Hopefully celebrating the first of many more to come.
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Hi 👋 - I'm Joon, a researcher focused on making the world more accessible.

Recent Updates

Featured Research

It's the only thing I can trust - Envisioning Large Language Model Use by Autistic Workers for Communication Assistance

I Should Feel Like I’m In Control - Understanding Expectations, Concerns, and Motivations for the Use of Autonomous Navigation on Wheelchairs

🏅 Rich Screen Reader Experiences for Accessible Data Visualization

Blog Posts

First Blog Post! 🥳