Supporting Mobile Reading While Walking with Automatic and Customized Font Size Adaptations
Junhan Kong, Jacob O Wobbrock, Tianyuan Cai, Zoya Bylinskii
CHI 2025

PDF Project Resources Video Poster Bibtex

        @inproceedings{10.1145/3706598.3713367,
            author = {Kong, Junhan and Wobbrock, Jacob O. and Cai, Tianyuan and Bylinskii, Zoya},
            title = {Supporting Mobile Reading While Walking with Automatic and Customized Font Size Adaptations},
            year = {2025},
            isbn = {9798400713941},
            publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
            url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713367},
            doi = {10.1145/3706598.3713367},
            booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
            articleno = {1007},
            numpages = {13},
            series = {CHI '25}
            }
    

COR Themes for Readability from Iterative Feedback
Tianyuan Cai, Aleena Gertrudes Niklaus, Bernard Kerr, Michael Kraley, Zoya Bylinskii
CHI 2024 [honorable mention]

Paper Demo Bibtex

@inproceedings{10.1145/3613904.3642108,
    author = {Cai, Tianyuan and Niklaus, Aleena Gertrudes and Kerr, Bernard and Kraley, Michael and Bylinskii, Zoya},
    title = {COR Themes for Readability from Iterative Feedback},
    year = {2024},
    isbn = {9798400703300},
    publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
    address = {New York, NY, USA},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642108},
    doi = {10.1145/3613904.3642108},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
    articleno = {908},
    numpages = {23},
    keywords = {crowdsourcing, human-in-the-loop, presets, readability, reading},
    location = {Honolulu, HI, USA},
    series = {CHI '24}
    }
                

Preferred Reading Formats for Mobile Devices: Results from Readability Studies
Tianyuan Cai, Aleena Gertrudes Niklaus, Bernard Kerr, Michael Kraley, Zoya Bylinskii
MobileHCI 2023

PDF Video Bibtex

@inproceedings{10.1145/3565066.3608706,
    author = {Cai, Tianyuan and Niklaus, Aleena Gertrudes and Kerr, Bernard and Kraley, Michael and Bylinskii, Zoya},
    title = {Preferred Reading Formats for Mobile Devices: Results from Readability Studies},
    year = {2023},
    isbn = {9781450399241},
    publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
    address = {New York, NY, USA},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3565066.3608706},
    doi = {10.1145/3565066.3608706},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction},
    articleno = {16},
    numpages = {9},
    keywords = {human-in-the-loop, mobile reading, presets, readability},
    location = {Athens, Greece},
    series = {MobileHCI '23 Companion}
}

Realistic Saliency Guided Image Enhancement
S Mahdi H Miangoleh, Zoya Bylinskii, Eric Kee, Eli Shechtman, Yağiz Aksoy
CVPR 2023

PDF Project Page Code Poster Bibtex

@InProceedings{Miangoleh_2023_CVPR,
author    = {Miangoleh, S. Mahdi H. and Bylinskii, Zoya and Kee, Eric and Shechtman, Eli and Aksoy, Ya\u{g}iz},
title     = {Realistic Saliency Guided Image Enhancement},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
month     = {June},
year      = {2023},
pages     = {186-194}
}

Towards Better User Studies in Computer Graphics and Vision
Zoya Bylinskii, Laura Herman, Aaron Hertzmann, Stefanie Hutka, Yile Zhang
Foundations and Trends in CG&V 2023

PDF Bibtex

@article{CGV-106,
    url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/0600000106},
    year = {2023},
    volume = {15},
    journal = {Foundations and Trends® in Computer Graphics and Vision},
    title = {Towards Better User Studies in Computer Graphics and Vision},
    doi = {10.1561/0600000106},
    issn = {1572-2740},
    number = {3},
    pages = {201-252},
    author = {Zoya Bylinskii and Laura Herman and Aaron Hertzmann and Stefanie Hutka and Yile Zhang}
}

Digital Reading Rulers: Evaluating Inclusively Designed Rulers for Readers With Dyslexia and Without
Aleena Niklaus, Tianyuan Cai, Zoya Bylinskii, Shaun Wallace
CHI 2023

Paper Demo Bibtex

@inproceedings{DRR2023,
title={Digital Reading Rulers: Evaluating Inclusively Designed Rulers for Readers With Dyslexia and Without},
author={Niklaus, Aleena Gertrudes and Cai, Tianyuan and Bylinskii, Zoya and Wallace, Shaun},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
year={2023}
}

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THERIF: Themes for Readability from Iterative Feedback
Tianyuan Cai, Aleena Gertrudes Niklaus, Bernard Kerr, Michael Kraley, Zoya Bylinskii
CHI EA 2023

Short paper Full paper Demo Bibtex

@inproceedings{THERIF2023,
title={THERIF: Themes for Readability from Iterative Feedback},
author={Cai, Tianyuan and Niklaus, Aleena Gertrudes and Kerr, Bernard and Kraley, Michael and Bylinskii, Zoya},
booktitle={Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
year={2023}
}
                

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A computational approach to studying aesthetic judgments of ambiguous artworks
Xi Wang, Zoya Bylinskii, Aaron Hertzmann, Robert Pepperell
Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts 2023

PDF Bibtex

@misc{wang_bylinskii_hertzmann_pepperell_2023,
title={A computational approach to studying aesthetic judgments of ambiguous artworks},
url={https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-77259-001},
DOI={https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000579},
publisher={Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts},
author={Wang, Xi and Bylinskii, Zoya and Hertzmann, Aaron and Pepperell, Robert C},
year={2023}
}

Web Table Formatting Affects Readability on Mobile Devices
Christopher Tensmeyer, Zoya Bylinskii, Tianyuan Cai, Dave Miller, Ani Nenkova, Aleena Niklaus, Shaun Wallace
WWW 2023

Paper Bibtex

@inproceedings{DRR2023,
title={Web Table Formatting Affects Readability on Mobile Devices},
author={Tensmeyer, Christopher and Bylinski, Zoya and Cai, Tianyuan and Miller, Dave and Nenkova, Ani and Niklaus, Aleena and Wallace, Shaun},
booktitle={Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023},
year={2023}
}

Personalized Font Recommendations: Combining ML and Typographic Guidelines to Optimize Readability
Tianyuan Cai, Shaun Wallace, Tina Rezvanian, Jonathan Dobres, Bernard Kerr, Samuel Berlow, Jeff Huang, Ben D. Sawyer, Zoya Bylinskii
ACM DIS 2022

PDF Video Code Bibtex

@inproceedings{cai2022personalized,
title={Personalized Font Recommendations: Combining ML and Typographic Guidelines to Optimize Readability},
author={Cai, Tianyuan and Wallace, Shaun and Rezvanian, Tina and Dobres, Jonathan and Kerr, Bernard and Berlow, Samuel and Huang, Jeff and Sawyer, Ben D and Bylinskii, Zoya},
booktitle={Designing Interactive Systems Conference},
pages={1--25},
year={2022}
}

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Towards Individuated Reading Experiences: Different Fonts Increase Reading Speed for Different Individuals
Shaun Wallace, Zoya Bylinskii, Jonathan Dobres, Bernard Kerr, Sam Berlow, Rick Treitman, Nirmal Kumawat, Kathleen Arpin, Dave B Miller, Jeff Huang, Ben D Sawyer
ACM TOCHI 2022

PDF Video Code,Data,Materials Bibtex

@article{wallace2022towards,
title={Towards Individuated Reading Experiences: Different Fonts Increase Reading Speed for Different Individuals},
author={Wallace, Shaun and Bylinskii, Zoya and Dobres, Jonathan and Kerr, Bernard and Berlow, Sam and Treitman, Rick and Kumawat, Nirmal and Arpin, Kathleen and Miller, Dave B and Huang, Jeff and others},
journal={ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)},
volume={29},
number={4},
pages={1--56},
year={2022},
publisher={ACM New York, NY}
}

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Larger visual changes compress time: The inverted effect of asemantic visual features on interval time perception
Sandra Malpica, Belen Masia, Laura Herman, Gordon Wetzstein, David Eagleman, Diego Gutierrez, Zoya Bylinskii, Qi Sun
PloS one 2022