Leah Findlater is an associate professor in the Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering (HCDE). She directs the Inclusive Design Lab, whose mission is to create accessible, intelligent technologies that support a wide range of physical, sensory, and cognitive human abilities. Her work focuses primarily on mobile and wearable technologies, including how to make the devices themselves more accessible and how to employ them in new ways to address real-world accessibility issues. She has published over 75 papers in top-tier academic venues, ten of which have been recognized with Best Paper or Honorable Mention awards. She holds an NSF CAREER Award, and her research has been funded by the NSF, the Department of Defense, and companies such as Google, Microsoft, and Nokia. Before joining HCDE in 2017, Dr. Findlater was an assistant professor at the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies, and she spent two years as an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at the UW Information School.Leah Findlater is an associate professor in the Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering (HCDE). She directs the Inclusive Design Lab, whose mission is to create accessible, intelligent technologies that support a wide range of physical, sensory, and cognitive human abilities. Her work focuses primarily on mobile and wearable technologies, including how to make the devices themselves more accessible and how to employ them in new ways to address real-world accessibility issues. She has published over 75 papers in top-tier academic venues, ten of which have been recognized with Best Paper or Honorable Mention awards. She holds an NSF CAREER Award, and her research has been funded by the NSF, the Department of Defense, and companies such as Google, Microsoft, and Nokia. Before joining HCDE in 2017, Dr. Findlater was an assistant professor at the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies, and she spent two years as an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at the UW Information School.
