Leah Findlater

Associate Professor, HCDE

University of Washington

Leah Findlater is a collaborator with the Makeability Lab. They contributed to 13 projects, including AR Captioning, Deaf Travel Autoethnography, and GlassEar, as well as 40 publications.

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Projects (8/12)

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SPECTRA

2022 – 2025

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Personalizing Sound Recognition

2019 – 2025

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ProtoSound

2020 – 2022

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SoundWatch

2018 – 2022

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HomeSound

2018 – 2020

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GlassEar

2014

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AR Captioning

2016 – 2022

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Touchscreen Accessibility

2007 – 2021

Papers (6/40)

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SPECTRA: Personalizable Sound Recognition for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users through Interactive Machine Learning

Steven Goodman, Emma McDonnell, Jon E. Froehlich, Leah Findlater

Proceedings of CHI 2025 | Acceptance Rate: 24.9% (1249 / 5020)

PDF doi Cite SPECTRA Personalizing Sound Recognition

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Making Urban Art Accessible: Current Art Access Techniques, Design Considerations, and the Role of AI

Lucy Jiang, Jon E. Froehlich, Leah Findlater

Workshop Proceedings of UrbanAccess 2024

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

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

Proceedings of CHI 2024 | Acceptance Rate: 26.3% (1060 / 4028)

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

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

Proceedings of CHI 2023 | Acceptance Rate: 27.6% (879 / 3182)

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SoundWatch: deep learning for sound accessibility on smartwatches

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

CACM 2022

PDF doi Cite Code SoundWatch

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

Dhruv Jain, Khoa Nguyen, Steven Goodman, Rachel Grossman-Kahn, Hung Ngo, Aditya Kusupati, Ruofei Du, Alex Olwal, Leah Findlater, Jon E. Froehlich

Proceedings of CHI 2022 | Acceptance Rate: 404.9% (2579 / 637)

PDF arXiv doi Cite ProtoSound Personalizing Sound Recognition

Videos (6/9)

SPECTRA: Personalizable Sound Recognition for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users through Interactive Machine Learning

YouTube Paper SPECTRA Apr 26, 2025

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

YouTube Paper Personalizing Sound Recognition ProtoSound Apr 30, 2022

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

YouTube Paper Personalizing Sound Recognition SoundWatch Sep 21, 2021

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

YouTube Paper SoundWatch Aug 21, 2020

HoloSound: Combining Speech and Sound Identification for Deaf or Hard of Hearing Users on a Head-mounted Display

YouTube Paper HoloSound Aug 04, 2020

Design of an Augmented Reality Magnification Aid for Low Vision Users

YouTube Paper AR Magnification HandSight Oct 22, 2018

Talks (3/3)

Slide preview for: Go Mobile! Designing Accessible Mobile Experiences

Go Mobile! Designing Accessible Mobile Experiences

Nov 08, 2013 | Enabled by Design-athon

Washington DC

Leah Findlater, Jon E. Froehlich

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

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

May 09, 2012 | 30th international conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI'12)

Austin, Texas

Jon E. Froehlich, Leah Findlater, Marilyn Ostergren, Solai Ramanathan, Josh Peterson, Inness Wragg, Eric Larson, Fabia Fu, Mazhengmin Bai, Shwetak Patel, James Landay

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Slide preview for: The design of eco-feedback technology

The design of eco-feedback technology

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

Atlanta, Georgia

Jon E. Froehlich, Leah Findlater, James Landay

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