Alan L. Liu

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/aliu/
aliu [at] cs.washington.edu
Graduate Student
Computer Science & Engineering
I am a UW Computer Science & Engineering doctoral candidate. I have a M.S. in CSE from UW and a B.S. in EECS from UC Berkeley, where I was an undergrad research in the Group for User Interface Research. My background is in the design, prototyping, and evaluation of mobile, ubiquitous applications using low and medium fidelity methods (e.g., Wizard of Oz simulation). I'm especially interested in novel applications of sensing and other data sources to healthcare and rehabilitative medicine domains. I'm currently working on the design and implementation of an intelligent (adaptive) wayfinding system that helps people with cognitive impairments in wayfinding for Project ACCESS.

Projects


Publications

Learning User Models to Improve Wayfinding Assistance for Individuals with Cognitive Impairment
Alan L. Liu, Gaetano Borriello, Henry Kautz, Pat A. Brown, Mark Harniss and Kurt L. Johnson
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2010. Workshop Paper (PDF)
Visual Navigation for Mobile Devices Visual Navigation for Mobile Devices
Harlan Hile, Alan L. Liu, Gaetano Borriello, Radek Grzeszczuk, Ramakrishna Vedantham and Jana Kosecka
IEEE Multimedia, 2010. Journal Article
Customizing Directions in an Automated Wayfinding System for Individuals with Cognitive Impairments Customizing Directions in an Automated Wayfinding System for Individuals with Cognitive Impairments
Alan L. Liu, Harlan Hile, Gaetano Borriello, Henry Kautz, Pat A. Brown, Mark Harniss and Kurt L. Johnson
ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Assistive Technologies, 2009. Full Paper (PDF)
Augmenting Images with Context on Mobile Devices Augmenting Images with Context on Mobile Devices
Harlan Hile, Radek Grzeszczuk, Ramakrishna Vedantham, Jana Kosecka, Alan L. Liu and Gaetano Borriello
The International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, 2009. Poster (PDF)
Pedestrian Landmark-Based Navigation with Enhanced Spatial Reasoning Pedestrian Landmark-Based Navigation with Enhanced Spatial Reasoning
Harlan Hile, Radek Grzeszczuk, Alan L. Liu, Ramakrishna Vedantham, Jana Kosecka and Gaetano Borriello
Pervasive, 2009. Full Paper (PDF)
Evaluating a Wayfinding System for Individuals with Cognitive Impairment Evaluating a Wayfinding System for Individuals with Cognitive Impairment
Alan L. Liu, Harlan Hile, Gaetano Borriello, Henry Kautz, Pat A. Brown, Mark Harniss and Kurt L. Johnson
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2009. Workshop Paper (PDF)
Landmark-Based Pedestrian Navigation from Collections of Geotagged Photos Landmark-Based Pedestrian Navigation from Collections of Geotagged Photos
Harlan Hile, Ramakrishna Vedantham, Gregory Cuellar, Alan L. Liu, Natasha Gelfand, Radek Grzeszczuk and Gaetano Borriello
Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, 2008. Full Paper (PDF)
    Best Student Paper
BrickRoad: A Light-weight Tool for Spontaneous Design of Location-enhanced Applications BrickRoad: A Light-weight Tool for Spontaneous Design of Location-enhanced Applications
Alan L. Liu and Yang Li
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2007. CHI Note (PDF)
Indoor Wayfinding: Developing a Functional Interface for Individuals with Cognitive Impairments Indoor Wayfinding: Developing a Functional Interface for Individuals with Cognitive Impairments
Alan L. Liu, Harlan Hile, Henry Kautz, Gaetano Borriello, Pat A. Brown, Mark Harniss and Kurt L. Johnson
ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Assistive Technologies, 2006. Full Paper (PDF)