Anna C. Cavender
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/cavender/
cavender [at] cs.washington.edu
Graduate Student
Computer Science & Engineering

Keywords: accessibility

I am a PhD student in the Computer Science & Engineering department at the University of Washington advised by Richard Ladner. My research interests are in Human-Computer Interaction, specifically in accessible technology. I am interested in technological solutions that reduce real life barriers and facilitate interaction between humans and computers.
Projects:

Publications:
ASL-STEM Forum: A Bottom-Up Approach to Enabling American Sign Language to Grow in STEM Fields ASL-STEM Forum: A Bottom-Up Approach to Enabling American Sign Language to Grow in STEM Fields
Jeffrey P. Bigham, Daniel Otero, Jessica N. DeWitt, Anna C. Cavender and Richard E. Ladner
International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2008. Poster (PDF)
Transcendence: Enabling a Personal View of the Deep Web Transcendence: Enabling a Personal View of the Deep Web
Jeffrey P. Bigham, Anna C. Cavender, Ryan S. Kaminsky, Craig M. Prince and Tyler S. Robinson
International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2008. Full Paper (PDF)
Using Networked Multimedia to Improve Educational Access for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students Using Networked Multimedia to Improve Educational Access for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
Anna C. Cavender
ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Assistive Technologies, 2007. Doctoral Consortium (PDF)
Variable Frame Rate for Low Power Mobile Sign Language Communication Variable Frame Rate for Low Power Mobile Sign Language Communication
Neva Cherniavsky, Anna C. Cavender, Richard E. Ladner and Eve A. Riskin
ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Assistive Technologies, 2007. Full Paper (PDF)
WebinSitu: A Comparative Analysis of Blind and Sighted Browsing Behavior WebinSitu: A Comparative Analysis of Blind and Sighted Browsing Behavior
Jeffrey P. Bigham, Anna C. Cavender, Jeremy T. Brudvik, Jacob O. Wobbrock and Richard Ladner
ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Assistive Technologies, 2007. Full Paper (PDF)
MobileASL: Intelligibility of Sign Language Video as Constrained by Mobile Phone Technology MobileASL: Intelligibility of Sign Language Video as Constrained by Mobile Phone Technology
Anna C. Cavender, Richard E. Ladner and Eve A. Riskin
ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Assistive Technologies, 2006. Full Paper (PDF)
    Best Student Technical Paper Award