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21419
World Ranking
2286
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1142

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to computational complexity, algorithms, data compression and accessible computing
  • 1995 - ACM Fellow For seminal and significant contributions in theoretical computer science research.
  • 1985 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Richard E. Ladner is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on fields intersecting computer science and social sciences, with notable contributions in human factors and ergonomics, occupational therapy, human-computer interaction, developmental and educational psychology, and artificial intelligence.

The scientist's research extensively covers topics related to digital accessibility for disabilities, assistive technology in communication and mobility, hearing impairment and communication, hand gesture recognition systems, tactile and sensory interactions, speech and dialogue systems, and text readability and simplification.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing
  • Communications of the ACM
  • International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
  • Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Richard E. Ladner are:

  • The FATE Landscape of Sign Language AI Datasets, 2021, ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing
  • ASL Citizen: A Community-Sourced Dataset for Advancing Isolated Sign Language Recognition, 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Expanding a Large Inclusive Study of Human Listening Rates, 2021, ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing
  • ASL-STEM Forum: A Bottom-Up Approach to Enabling American Sign Language to Grow in STEM Fields, 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • Broadening participation by teaching accessibility, 2021, Communications of the ACM

Frequent collaborators include Danielle Bragg, Naomi Caselli, Raja Kushalnagar, Shaun K. Kane, and Clayton Lewis.

The scientist has received several awards, including:

  • IEEE Fellow in 2009 for contributions to computational complexity, algorithms, data compression, and accessible computing
  • ACM Fellow in 1995 for seminal and significant contributions in theoretical computer science research
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1985

Best Publications

  • Improving Generalization with Active Learning

    David Cohn;Les Atlas;Richard Ladner

  • Parallel Prefix Computation

    Richard E. Ladner;Michael J. Fischer

  • Propositional dynamic logic of regular programs

    Michael J. Fischer;Richard E. Ladner

  • On the Structure of Polynomial Time Reducibility

    Richard E. Ladner

  • The Computational Complexity of Provability in Systems of Modal Propositional Logic

    Richard E. Ladner

  • Unequal loss protection: graceful degradation of image quality over packet erasure channels through forward error correction

    A.E. Mohr;E.A. Riskin;R.E. Ladner

  • A comparison of polynomial time reducibilities

    Richard E. Ladner;Nancy A. Lynch;Alan L. Selman

  • Comparison of polynomial-time reducibilities

    Richard Ladner;Nancy Lynch;Alan Selman

  • Freedom to roam: a study of mobile device adoption and accessibility for people with visual and motor disabilities

    Shaun K. Kane;Chandrika Jayant;Jacob O. Wobbrock;Richard E. Ladner

  • The circuit value problem is log space complete for P

    Richard E. Ladner

  • Usable gestures for blind people: understanding preference and performance

    Shaun K. Kane;Jacob O. Wobbrock;Richard E. Ladner

  • Training Connectionist Networks with Queries and Selective Sampling

    Les E. Atlas;David A. Cohn;Richard E. Ladner

  • Proceedings of the 40th annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing

    Richard Ladner;Cynthia Dwork

  • The influence of caches on the performance of sorting

    Anthony LaMarca;Richard E. Ladner

  • Propositional modal logic of programs

    Michael J. Fischer;Richard E. Ladner

  • WebInSight: making web images accessible

    Jeffrey P. Bigham;Ryan S. Kaminsky;Richard E. Ladner;Oscar M. Danielsson

  • Relativization of questions about log space computability

    Richard E. Ladner;Nancy A. Lynch

  • WebinSitu: a comparative analysis of blind and sighted browsing behavior

    Jeffrey P. Bigham;Anna C. Cavender;Jeremy T. Brudvik;Jacob O. Wobbrock

  • Design for user empowerment

    Richard E. Ladner

  • Enhancing independence and safety for blind and deaf-blind public transit riders

    Shiri Azenkot;Sanjana Prasain;Alan Borning;Emily Fortuna

  • The Influence of Caches on the Performance of Sorting U

    Anthony LaMarca;Richard E. Ladner

Frequent Co-Authors

Eve A. Riskin
Eve A. Riskin University of Washington
Amotz Bar-Noy
Amotz Bar-Noy City University of New York
Jacob O. Wobbrock
Jacob O. Wobbrock University of Washington
Jeffrey P. Bigham
Jeffrey P. Bigham Carnegie Mellon University
Anthony LaMarca
Anthony LaMarca Intel (United States)
Shaun K. Kane
Shaun K. Kane Google (United States)
Anne Condon
Anne Condon University of British Columbia
Howard Karloff
Howard Karloff Amazon (United States)
Les Atlas
Les Atlas University of Washington
Scott Hauck
Scott Hauck University of Washington

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