I am an assistant professor in the Department of Information Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. 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.
In 2011, I received my PhD from The Information School at the University of Washington. For more information, check out my CV.
Recent highlights
- My paper with Jacob O. Wobbrock and Richard E. Ladner, Usable Gestures for Blind People: Understanding Preference and Performance, received a Best Paper Award at the CHI 2011 conference!
- During Fall 2010 I worked as an intern at Microsoft Research with Meredith Ringel Morris and Daniel Wigdor. We investigated access techniques for large touch screen surfaces.
- OneView, my project with Kristen Shinohara, took 2nd place in the Touch and Tablet Accessibility Award at the Imagine Cup 2010. This project was covered by the Seattle Times, The Daily, and KOMO Radio.
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]