I am a PhD candidate at The Information School at the University of Washington. My primary research interests are accessible user interfaces and mobile human-computer interaction. My work explores ways to make mobile devices easier to use, especially for people with disabilities and people in distracting environments.
I'm a member of the AIM Research Group, MobileAccessibility and the DUB Group. My advisor is Jacob O. Wobbrock. For more information, check out my CV.
Recent highlights
- I presented our paper Freedom to Roam: A Study of Mobile Device Adoption and Accessibility for People with Visual and Motor Disabilities at the ASSETS '09 conference in Pittsburgh, PA.
- I also presented our paper Bonfire: A Nomadic System for Hybrid Laptop-Tabletop Interaction at the UIST '09 conference in Victoria, BC.
- I demonstrated Bonfire at the Intel Labs Seattle Open House. The demo was covered by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle Times, and Xconomy.
- My paper with Jacob Wobbrock and Ian Smith, Getting off the Treadmill: Evaluating Walking User Interfaces for Mobile Devices in Public Spaces, won a Best Paper award at the MobileHCI '08 conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (Not that recent, but still awesome!)
Projects
More information about these projects is available on the projects page.
- Mobile accessibility. Investigating how people with visual and motor impairments use mobile devices in their everyday lives.
- Bonfire. Augmenting laptops with micro-projectors and cameras to enable gestural interactions on everyday surfaces.
- Slide Rule. Multi-touch gestural interaction techniques that enable access to touch screens for blind and visually impaired people.
- Walking user interfaces. Adaptive user interfaces for mobile devices to improve usability while walking.
- TrueKeys. A system for automatically detecting and correcting typing errors, intended for people with motor impairments.
- Cross-device user interfaces. Exploring how users browse the web on their PCs and mobile devices, and share information across devices.
- Value Sensitive Design. Design tools and methods to surface and address human value concerns during the design process.
Selected publications
For a full list of publications, see the publications page or my CV.
- Kane, S.K., Jayant, C., Wobbrock, J.O. and Ladner, R.E. (2009). Freedom to roam: A study of mobile device adoption and accessibility for people with visual and motor disabilities. Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '09). New York: ACM Press, 115-122. [ACM] [PDF]
- Kane, S.K., Avrahami, D., Wobbrock, J.O., Harrison, B., Rea, A.D., Philipose, M. and LaMarca, A. (2009). Bonfire: A nomadic system for hybrid laptop-tabletop interaction. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '09). New York: ACM Press, 129-138. [ACM] [PDF]
- Kane, S.K., Bigham, J.P. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2008). Slide Rule: Making mobile touch screens accessible to blind people using multi-touch interaction techniques. Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '08). New York: ACM Press, 73-80. [ACM] [PDF]
- Kane, S.K., Wobbrock, J.O. and Smith, I.E. (2008). Getting off the treadmill: Evaluating walking user interfaces for mobile devices in public spaces. Proceedings of MobileHCI '08. New York: ACM Press. Winner of Best Paper Award. [ACM] [PDF]