2025 Research Speaker Series
Leah Findlater
Professor, HCDE
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6
4:30 – 5:20 p.m.
Sieg Building, room 134
Projects and Musings in AI-powered Accessibility
AI-based accessibility tools hold tremendous potential to counter everyday disabling experiences when using computing technologies and in the physical world—from personalizing how a device interprets each user’s input to amplifying a user’s sensory abilities with additional information. At the same time, these technologies surface challenges of social acceptability, accuracy, privacy, and fairness in often unique ways given the accessibility context. In this talk, I will cover a few recent projects focused on accessibility for blind and low vision users that explore the promise of AI-powered accessibility and that help to characterize and mitigate the risks that can come with these technologies.
About the presenter
Leah Findlater is a professor in Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington (UW) and a research scientist in the Human-Centered Machine Intelligence group at Apple. Her research is in human-computer interaction, specifically in accessible technologies and the human side of human-centered machine learning.
The HCDE Research Speaker Series is hosted Thursdays in Autumn Quarter by the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington. Presentations are open to the public.