Leah Findlater

Leah Findlater

Associate Professor, HCDE
University of Washington
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Leah Findlater is currently a collaborator with the Makeability Lab. Leah has collaborated with the lab for 13.7 years and contributed to 12 projects, including HomeSound, HandSight, Deaf Travel Autoethnography, as well as 40 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

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

CHI 2025

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

PDF | doi | Citation | SPECTRA

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

UrbanAccess 2024

Lucy Jiang, Jon E. Froehlich, Leah Findlater

PDF | Citation

“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

Recent Videos

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

YouTube | Paper | SPECTRA

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

Talks
Go Mobile! Designing Accessible Mobile Experiences

Nov. 8, 2013 | Enabled by Design-athon

Washington DC

Leah Findlater, Jon E. Froehlich

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

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

PDF | PPTX | SlideShare |

The design of eco-feedback technology

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

Atlanta, Georgia

Jon E. Froehlich, Leah Findlater, James Landay

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

May 23, 2025

Makeability Lab at the Post-CHI Miraikan Accessibility Networking Event

May 16, 2025

CFP: ICCV Workshop on GenAI for Accessibility

April 23, 2025

Arnavi Passes Quals!

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