Leah Findlater

Leah Findlater
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Regina (BS)
University of British Columbia (MS, PhD)
Doctoral advisorJoanna McGrenere
Academic work
DisciplineComputer science
Sub-disciplineHuman–computer interaction
Mobile computing
Computer accessibility
InstitutionsUniversity of Maryland, College Park
University of Washington

Leah K. Findlater is a Canadian-American computer scientist specializing in human-computer interaction, mobile computing, and computer accessibility. She is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Washington.

Education

Findlater studied computer science at the University of Regina, graduating with high honors in 2001.[1] She went to the University of British Columbia (UBC) for graduate study, becoming a participant there in Maria Klawe's project on aphasia.[2] She earned a master's degree at UBC in 2004, with the thesis Comparing Static, Adaptable, and Adaptive Menus, and completed her Ph.D. in 2009 with the dissertation Supporting Feature Awareness and Improving Performance with Personalized Graphical User Interfaces, both under the supervision of Joanna McGrenere.[1][3]

Career

After postdoctoral research at the University of Washington with Professor Jacob O. Wobbrock, Findlater joined the College of Information Studies faculty, UMIACS, and University of Maryland Human–Computer Interaction Lab.[4][1] She returning to the University of Washington as a faculty member in 2017.[5]

Findlater's research has included work on a voice-based software assistant to help blind people navigate the internet,[citation needed] and an augmented reality system to provide real-time captioning for hard-of-hearing people.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c Curriculum vitae (PDF), March 26, 2017, retrieved 2019-09-17
  2. ^ McGrenere, Joanna; Davies, Rhian; Findlater, Leah; Graf, Peter; Klawe, Maria; Moffatt, Karyn; Purves, Barbara; Yang, Sarah (June–September 2002), "Insights from the Aphasia Project: Designing Technology for and with People Who Have Aphasia", Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Universal Usability (CUU '03), SIGCAPH Comput. Phys. Handicap., vol. 73–74, pp. 112–118, doi:10.1145/957205.957225, ISBN 1-58113-701-X, S2CID 14663813
  3. ^ Leah Findlater at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ "Leah Findlater | UMIACS". www.umiacs.umd.edu. Retrieved 2022-01-25.
  5. ^ Leah Findlater, PhD, University of Washington Human Centered Design & Engineering, September 2017, retrieved 2019-09-17
  6. ^ Levy, Nat (November 2, 2018), "From fighting Alzheimer's to AR captions, UW computer science students show cutting-edge innovations", GeekWire