Welcome!
I am a Professor of Information and,
by courtesy,
Computer Science & Engineering
at the
University of Washington (UW).
My field is human-computer interaction (HCI)
with a focus on
mobile
and
accessible
computing.
I am a founding member of the
DUB Group and the
MHCI+D degree.
I also direct the ACE Lab
and am an Associate Director and founding Co-Director Emeritus of the
CREATE research center.
My Ph.D. students
come from
information science and
computer science.
My research seeks to scientifically understand people's interactions with and experiences of
computers and information,
and
to improve them by
inventing and evaluating new interactive technologies,
especially for people with disabilities.
My specific research topics include
input and interaction techniques,
human performance measurement and modeling,
HCI research and design methods,
mobile computing,
and
accessible computing.
Some of my notable projects are
the ability-based design approach to accessible technology design,
the $-family gesture recognizers,
the end-user elicitation design method,
the Slide Rule design for accessible touchscreen gestures,
ARTool for conducting nonparametric statistical analyses,
the Pointing Magnifier assistive pointing and visual aid,
and the versatile EdgeWrite text entry system.
For my contributions to accessible computing, I received the
2017 SIGCHI Social Impact Award
and the
2019 SIGACCESS ASSETS Paper Impact Award.
I also received the ICMI 2022 Ten-Year Technical Impact Award for
work on gesture recognition.
In 2019, I was inducted into the
CHI Academy.
In 2021, I was named an
ACM Fellow.
I have also been an entrepreneur. In 2012, I co-founded
AnswerDash,
where I was a venture-backed CEO for about three years.
In 2020, AnswerDash was acquired by
CloudEngage.
My conversations with
The New York Times
and
The Huffington Post
capture some of my experiences as a startup co-founder from academia.
See my
bio,
full CV,
faculty profile,
Wikipedia page,
ACM author page, or
Google Scholar page.
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