I am a graduate student in the Computer Science Department at the University of Washington. If all goes well, in some number of years I will be "Dr. Sus".

More details in my Curriculum Vitae

When I'm not in front of a computer, I'm most likely doing something related to Shotokan Karate at the University of Washington dojo.

If we need to set up a meeting, you can check my schedule.

My areas of interest include speech and voice-based interfaces, and assistive/access technologies for addressing physical and situational impairments.

I am currently working on the Vocal Joystick project, developing applications that can be used by people with motor impairments to fluidly control their computer and applications.

Most recently, I have been working with an "Electronic Voice Painter" to create a hands-free drawing program called VoiceDraw.

S. Harada, J.A. Landay, J. Malkin, X. Li, and J.A. Bilmes. The Vocal Joystick: Evaluation of Voice-based Cursor Control Techniques for Assistive Technology. To appear in the Special Issue on Accessibility of the Journal Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology.

S. Harada, T.S. Saponas, and J.A. Landay. VoicePen: Augmenting Pen Input with Simultaneous Non-Linguisitic Vocalization. Proceedings of the 9th International ACM Conference on Multimodal Interfaces. Nagoya, Japan, November 2007.

S. Harada, J.O. Wobbrock, and J.A. Landay. VoiceDraw: A Hands-Free Voice-Driven Drawing Application for People with Motor Impairments. Proceedings of the 9th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. Tempe, Arizona, October 2007.

S. Harada, J.A. Landay, J. Malkin, X. Li, and J.A. Bilmes. The Vocal Joystick: Evaluation of Voice-based Cursor Control Techniques. Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. Portland, Oregon, October 2006.

X. Li, J. Malkin, S. Harada, J. Bilmes, R. Wright and J. Landay. An Online Adaptive Filtering Algorithm for the Vocal Joystick. To appear in Proceedings of Interspeech. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 2006.

J. Bilmes, J. Malkin, X. Li, S. Harada, K. Kilanski, K. Kirchhoff, R. Wright, A. Subramanya, J. Landay, P. Dowden, and H. Chizeck. The Vocal Joystick. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Audio, Speech and Signal Processing. Toulouse, France, May 2006.

J.A. Bilmes, X. Li, J. Malkin, K. Kilanski, R. Wright, K. Kirchhoff, A. Subramanya, S. Harada, J.A. Landay, P. Dowden, and H. Chizeck. The Vocal Joystick: A Voice-Based Human-Computer Interface for Individuals with Motor Impairments. Human Language Technology Conference/Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Vancouver, Canada, October 2005.

Q. Wang, S. Harada, T. Hsieh, and A. Paepcke. Visual Interface and Control Modality: An Experiment about Fast Photo Browsing on Mobile Devices. INTERACT '05. Rome, Italy, September 2005.

M. Naaman, S. Harada, Q. Wang, H. Garcia-Molina, and A. Paepcke. Context data in geo-referenced digital photo collections. ACM International Conference on Multimedia. New York, NY, October 2004.

S. Harada, M. Naaman, Y. J. Song, Q. Wang, and A. Paepcke. Lost in memories: Interacting with large photo collections on PDAs. ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. Tucson, AZ, June 2004.

A. Paepcke, Q. Wang, S. Patel, M. Wang, and S. Harada. A cost-effective three-in-one personal digital assistant input control. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Vol. 60, Issues 5-6, May 2004, pp. 717-736.