Crescentia Jung

PhD Candidate in Information Science (Human-Computer Interaction)

About

Hello! I'm Crescentia, an Information Science PhD Candidate at Cornell University on the Cornell Tech campus in NYC. I am advised by Professor Shiri Azenkot (opens in new tab).

I research and design AI-powered systems that support inclusive collaboration in mixed-ability teams. My work contributes to Human-Computer Interaction, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Human-AI Interaction, and Accessibility.

I am also a Siegel and Rubinstein PiTech PhD Impact Fellow with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, where I evaluate how AI chatbots answer public health questions.

Before Cornell, I earned my bachelor's degree in Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. There I worked with Professor Yea-Seul Kim (opens in new tab) on accessible visualization research.

Feel free to reach out at cj382@cornell.edu!

Publications

* equal contribution and co-first authorship. Full list on Google Scholar (opens in new tab).

2026

Supporting Allyship in Virtual Collaboration with Artificial Intelligence: A Scenario-Based Study

Crescentia Jung, Ricardo Gonzalez, Prashita Biswas, Seungyoon Kwon, Shiri Azenkot

ASSETS '26 PDF: Supporting Allyship in Virtual Collaboration with Artificial Intelligence (opens in new tab)
Understanding How Accessibility Practices Impact Teamwork in Mixed-Ability Teams that Collaborate Virtually

Crescentia Jung, Kexin Cheng, Sharon Heung, Malte Jung, Shiri Azenkot

CHI '26 PDF: Understanding How Accessibility Practices Impact Teamwork (opens in new tab)
How Multimodal Large Language Models Support Access to Visual Information: A Diary Study With Blind and Low Vision People

Ricardo Gonzalez, Crescentia Jung, Sharon Y Lin, Ruiying Hu, Shiri Azenkot

CHI '26 🏆 Best Paper Honorable Mention PDF: How Multimodal Large Language Models Support Access to Visual Information (opens in new tab)

2025

Supporting Teamwork in Mixed-Ability Virtual Collaboration

Crescentia Jung

CSCW '25 Doctoral Consortium Paper: Supporting Teamwork in Mixed-Ability Virtual Collaboration (opens in new tab)

2024

Accessible Nonverbal Cues to Support Conversations in VR for Blind and Low Vision People

Crescentia Jung*, Jazmin Collins*, Jonathan Isaac Segal, Andrea Stevenson Won, Shiri Azenkot

ASSETS '24 Paper: Accessible Nonverbal Cues to Support Conversations in VR (opens in new tab)
"It's Kind of Context Dependent": Understanding Blind and Low Vision People's Video Accessibility Preferences Across Viewing Scenarios

Lucy Jiang, Crescentia Jung, Mahika Phutane, Abigale Stangl, Shiri Azenkot

CHI '24 Paper: It's Kind of Context Dependent (opens in new tab)
SocialCueSwitch: Towards Customizable Accessibility by Representing Social Cues in Multiple Senses

Jonathan Isaac Segal, Samuel Rodriguez, Akshaya Raghavan, Heysil Baez, Crescentia Jung, Jazmin Collins, Shiri Azenkot, Andrea Stevenson Won

CHI '24 Extended Abstracts Paper: SocialCueSwitch (opens in new tab)

2023

"The Guide Has Your Back": Exploring How Sighted Guides Can Enhance Accessibility in Social Virtual Reality for Blind and Low Vision People

Jazmin Collins*, Crescentia Jung*, Yeonju Jang, Danielle Montour, Andrea Stevenson Won, Shiri Azenkot

ASSETS '23 Paper: The Guide Has Your Back (opens in new tab)
Speaking with My Screen Reader: Using Audio Fictions to Explore Conversational Access to Interfaces

Mahika Phutane, Crescentia Jung, Niu Chen, Shiri Azenkot

ASSETS '23 Paper: Speaking with My Screen Reader (opens in new tab)
Making Avatar Gaze Accessible for Blind and Low Vision People in Virtual Reality: Preliminary Insights

Jazmin Collins*, Crescentia Jung*, Shiri Azenkot

IEEE ISMAR '23 Poster Paper: Making Avatar Gaze Accessible (opens in new tab)

2022

Seeing Through Sounds: Mapping Auditory Dimensions to Data and Charts for People with Visual Impairments

Ruobin Wang, Crescentia Jung, Yea-Seul Kim

Computer Graphics Forum Paper: Seeing Through Sounds (opens in new tab)
What Makes Web Data Tables Accessible? Insights and a Tool for Rendering Accessible Tables for People with Visual Impairments

Yanan Wang, Ruobin Wang, Crescentia Jung, Yea-Seul Kim

CHI '22 Paper: What Makes Web Data Tables Accessible (opens in new tab)

2021

Communicating Visualizations without Visuals: Investigation of Visualization Alternative Text for People with Visual Impairments

Crescentia Jung, Shubham Mehta, Atharva Kulkarni, Yuhang Zhao, Yea-Seul Kim

IEEE VIS '21 (TVCG) 🏆 Best Paper Honorable Mention PDF: Communicating Visualizations without Visuals (opens in new tab)

Awards & Press

2026 Siegel PiTech PhD Impact Fellowship and Extension, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
2026 CHI Best Paper Honorable Mention (top 5% of submissions)
2023 DIS Special Recognition for Outstanding Reviews
2023 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program, Honorable Mention
2023 CRA-E Undergraduate Research Highlights feature (opens in new tab)
2022 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award, Honorable Mention
2021 IEEE VIS Best Paper Honorable Mention (top 5% of submissions)
2020, 2021 UW-Madison Undergraduate Scholarship for Summer Study