Leah Findlater

Assistant Professor, Human-Centered Design and Engineering

University of Washington

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Leah Findlater is currently a collaborator with the Makeability Lab. Leah has collaborated with the lab for 13.2 years and contributed to 3 projects, including HandSight, GlassEar, and Touchscreen Accessibility. as well as 22 publications.

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Projects

HandSight

2013 – Present

GlassEar

2014 – Present

Touchscreen Accessibility

– Present

Recent Papers

Applying Transfer Learning to Recognize Clothing Patterns Using a Finger-Mounted Camera

None 2018

Lee Stearns, Leah Findlater, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | doi | Citation | HandSight

Design of an Augmented Reality Magnification Aid for Low Vision Users

None 2018

Leah Findlater, Jon E. Froehlich, Lee Stearns

PDF | Citation | HandSight

Towards Accessible Conversations in a Mobile Context for People Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing

None 2018

Dhruv Jain, Rachel Franz, Leah Findlater, Jackson Cannon, Raja Kushalnagar, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | Citation | GlassEar

Recent Videos

Design of an Augmented Reality Magnification Aid for Low Vision Users

YouTube | Paper

TouchCam: Realtime Recognition of Location-Specific On-Body Gestures to Support Users with Visual Impairments

YouTube | Paper

Head-Mounted Display Visualizations to Support Sound Awareness for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

YouTube | Paper

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.

Leah Findlater

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