ACM CHI, 2026

FAME: Exploring Expressive Facial Avatars for Lyrical and Non-Lyrical Music Visualization for d/Deaf Individuals

Suhyeon Yoo, Yifang Pan, Ashish Ajin Thomas, Karan Singh, Khai N. Truong

This paper presents FAME, a design probe that conveys music to d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing users through expressive facial animation, instrument highlights, and synchronized captions.

Recommended citationYoo, Suhyeon, Yifang Pan, Ashish Ajin Thomas, Karan Singh, and Khai N. Truong. (2026). "FAME: Exploring Expressive Facial Avatars for Lyrical and Non-Lyrical Music Visualization for d/Deaf Individuals." Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 1-19.

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