Leah Findlater

Leah Findlater

Associate Professor, HCDE
University of Washington
Website
Leah is a current collaborator with the Makeability Lab. They have collaborated with the lab for and contributed to 10 projects and 38 publications.
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Recent Projects

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HomeSound

2018 – 2020

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HandSight

2013 – 2018

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Deaf Travel Autoethnography

2018 – 2019

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Touchscreen Accessibility

2007 – 2021

Recent Papers

“Caption It in an Accessible Way That Is Also Enjoyable”: Characterizing User-Driven Captioning Practices on TikTok

CHI 2024

Emma McDonnell, Tessa Eagle, Pitch Sinlapanuntakul, Soo Hyun Moon, Kathryn Ringland, Jon E. Froehlich, Leah Findlater

PDF | doi | Citation

“Easier or Harder, Depending on Who the Hearing Person Is”: Codesigning Videoconferencing Tools for Small Groups with Mixed Hearing Status

Proceedings of CHI 2023

Emma McDonnell, Soo Hyun Moon, Lucy Jiang, Steven Goodman, Raja Kushalnagar, Jon E. Froehlich, Leah Findlater

PDF | doi | Citation

SoundWatch: deep learning for sound accessibility on smartwatches

CACM

Dhruv Jain, Hung Ngo, Pratyush Patel, Steven Goodman, Khoa Nguyen, Rachel Grossman-Kahn, Leah Findlater, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | doi | Citation | Code | SoundWatch

Recent Videos

ProtoSound: A Personalized and Scalable Sound Recognition System for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Users

YouTube | Paper

Toward Sound Recognizer Personalization with d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users

YouTube | Paper

ACM ISWC'20 conference talk on Field Study of a Wearable Tactile Device for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users

YouTube | Paper

Talks
Go Mobile! Designing Accessible Mobile Experiences

Nov. 8, 2013 | Enabled by Design-athon

Washington DC

PDF | PPTX

The Design and Evaluation of Prototype Eco-Feedback Displays for Fixture-Level Water Usage Data

May 9, 2012 | 30th international conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI'12)

Austin, Texas

PDF | PPTX | SlideShare | HydroSense

The design of eco-feedback technology

April 14, 2010 | 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '10)

Atlanta, Georgia

PDF | PPTX | SlideShare

We design, build, and evaluate new interactive tools and techniques to address pressing societal challenges. Makeability refers both to how our technological innovations make new abilities possible for humans as well as our educational mission to help students gain new abilities as they learn and grow through research, invention, and human-centered design.

Recent News

Aug. 09, 2024

"AI-Powered AR Accessibility" Talk at Apple Research

June 25, 2024

Chu Li Gives Invited Talk at NYU VIDA

June 24, 2024

Xia and Daniel off to Adobe for the Summer

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