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".

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, please take a look at 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 hands-free.

Recently, I've worked with an "Electronic Voice Painter" to create a hands-free drawing program called VoiceDraw.

Refereed Journal Articles

Harada, S., Landay, J.A., Malkin, J., Li, X., and Bilmes, J.A. (2008) The Vocal Joystick: evaluation of voice-based cursor control techniques for assistive technology. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology 3(1):22-34, January 2008.
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Paepcke, A., Wang, Q., Patel, S., Wang, M., and Harada, S. (2004) A cost-effective three-in-one personal digital assistant input control. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 60(5-6):717-736, May 2004.
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Refereed Conference Papers

Harada, S., Wobbrock, J.O., Landay, J.A., Malkin, J., and Bilmes, J. (2009) Longitudinal study of people learning to use continuous voice-based cursor control. In Proceeding of the 27th Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Boston, Massachusetts, April 4-9, 2009). CHI '09. ACM, New York, NY, 347-356.
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Wobbrock, J.O, Fogarty, J.A., Liu, S.Y., Kimuro, S., and Harada, S. (2009) The Angle Mouse: target-agnostic dynamic gain adjustment based on angular deviation. In Proceeding of the 27th Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Boston, Massachusetts, April 4-9, 2009). CHI '09. ACM, New York, NY, 1401-1410.
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Harada, S., Lester, J., Patel, K., Saponas, T.S., Fogarty, J., Landay, J.A., and Wobbrock, J.O. (2008) VoiceLabel: using speech to label mobile sensor data. In Proceedings of the 10th international Conference on Multimodal interfaces (Chania, Crete, Greece, October 20 - 22, 2008). IMCI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 69-76.
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Wobbrock, J. O., Cutrell, E., Harada, S., and MacKenzie, I. (2008) An error model for pointing based on Fitts' law. In Proceeding of the 26th Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 5-10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 1613-1622.
Winner of best paper award
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Everitt, K.M., Harada, S., Bilmes, J., and Landay, J.A. (2007) Disambiguating speech commands using physical context. In Proceedings of the 9th international Conference on Multimodal interfaces (Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, November 12-15, 2007). ICMI '07. ACM, New York, NY, 247-254.
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Harada, S., Saponas, T.S., and Landay, J.A. (2007) VoicePen: augmenting pen input with simultaneous non-linguisitic vocalization. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, November 12-15, 2007). ICMI '07. ACM, New York, NY, 178-185.
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Harada, S., Wobbrock, J.O., and Landay, J.A. (2007) VoiceDraw: A hands-free voice-driven drawing application for people with motor impairments. In Proceedings of the 9th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Tempe, Arizona, USA, October 15-17, 2007). ASSETS '07. ACM, New York, NY, 27-34.
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Harada, S., Landay, J.A., Malkin, J., Li, X., and Bilmes, J.A. (2006) The Vocal Joystick: evaluation of voice-based cursor control techniques. In Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Portland, Oregon, USA, October 23-25, 2006). ASSETS '06. ACM, New York, NY, 197-204.
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Li, X., Malkin, J., Harada, S., Bilmes, J.A., Wright, R., and Landay, J.A. (2006) An online adaptive filtering algorithm for the Vocal Joystick. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, September 17-21, 2006). INTERSPEECH '06.
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Bilmes, J.A., Malkin, J., Li, X., Harada, S., Kilanski, K., Kirchhoff, K., Wright, R., Subramanya, A., Landay, J.A., Dowden, P., and Chizeck, H. (2006) The Vocal Joystick. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Audio, Speech and Signal Processing (Toulouse, France, May 2006). ICASSP '06.
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Bilmes, J.A., Li, X., Malkin, J., Kilanski, K., Wright, R., Kirchhoff, K., Subramanya, A., Harada, S., Landay, J.A., Dowden, P., and Chizeck, H. (2005) The Vocal Joystick: a voice-based human-computer interface for individuals with motor impairments. In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 6-8, 2005). Human Language Technology Conference. Association for Computational Linguistics, Morristown, NJ, 995-1002.
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Wang, Q., Harada, S., Hsieh, T., and Paepcke, A. (2005) Visual interface and control modality: an experiment about fast photo browsing on mobile devices. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction (Rome, Italy, September 12-16, 2005). INTERACT '05. Springer, Berlin, 240-252.
Winner of best paper award
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Naaman, M., Harada, S., Wang, Q., Garcia-Molina, H., and Paepcke, A. (2004) Context data in geo-referenced digital photo collections. In Proceedings of the 12th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia (New York, NY, USA, October 10-16, 2004). MULTIMEDIA '04. ACM, New York, NY, 196-203.
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Harada, S., Naaman, M., Song, Y.J., Wang, Q., and Paepcke, A. (2004) Lost in memories: interacting with large photo collections on PDAs. In Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (Tucson, Arizona, USA, June 7-11, 2004). JCDL '04. ACM, New York, NY, 325-333.
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Conference workshop sessions

Sporka, A. J., Harada, S., and Kurniawan, S. H. (2007). Striking a c[h]ord: vocal interaction in assistive technologies, games, and more. In CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (San Jose, CA, USA, April 28 - May 03, 2007). CHI '07. ACM, New York, NY, 2869-2872.
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1.	1978 - 1980:	Tokyo, Japan
2.	1980 - 1986:	Baghdad, Iraq
3.	1986 - 1988:	Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
4.	1988 - 1996:	Yona, Guam, USA	(St. John's School)
5.	1996 - 2000:	Pittsburgh, PA, USA	(Carnegie Mellon University)
6.	2000 - 2002:	Austin, TX, USA	(Trilogy)
7.	2002 - 2004:	Palo Alto , CA, USA	(Stanford University)
8.	2004 - now:	Seattle, WA, USA	(University of Washington)