Thad Starner

schoolGeorgia Institute of Technologybar_chart#1300 Global Rank

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#1300

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PopSignAI: Towards Using Sign Language Recognition Games to Improve American Sign Language Learning in Novice Signers

To help novice signers learn American Sign Language, we develop PopSignAI, a proof-of-concept smartphone-based bubble-shooter game that facilitates real-time interaction through isolated sign language recognition. In a 20-person user study, we demonstrate that encouraging novice signers to practice generating sign in…

UBICOMP '24CorrespondingHead-Up Display (HUD) & Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) +1

Comfortably Going Blank: Optimizing the Position of Optical Combiners for Monocular Head-Worn Displays During Inactivity

Smart glasses, such as the Epson Moverio and Tooz DevKit, are often designed so that the display is near the ear and an optical combiner is positioned to reflect the display into the user’s eye. When the display is off, this combiner can still be seen as an out-of-focus edge or discoloration in the lens. Therefore, po…

UBICOMP '23CorrespondingHead-Up Display (HUD) & Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) +1

Going Blank Comfortably: Positioning Monocular Head-Worn Displays When They are Inactive

Head-worn displays like Tooz and North's Focals are designed to be worn all day as smart eyeglasses. When the display is not lit (often to save battery life), the optical combiners may remain visible to the user as an out-of-focus seam or discoloration in the lens. We emulate seven shapes and positions of optical comb…

UBICOMP '234th AuthorFitness Tracking & Physical Activity Monitoring +1

Wireless Sensor Collar for Automatic Recognition of Canine Agility Activities

Canine agility is a rapidly growing sport where dogs and their handlers navigate obstacle courses. Recent studies show that over 40% of all agility dogs suffer an injury while training or competing. By collecting and analyzing sensor measurements from a wearable computer while dogs participate in the sport, we hope to…

CHI '22CorrespondingElectrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS) +1

SilentSpeller: Towards mobile, hands-free, silent speech text entry using electropalatography

Speech is inappropriate in many situations, limiting when voice control can be used. Most unvoiced speech text entry systems can not be used while on-the-go due to movement artifacts. Using a dental retainer with capacitive touch sensors, SilentSpeller tracks tongue movement, enabling users to type by spelling words w…

UIST '21CorrespondingHaptic Wearables +2

MARS: Nano-Power Battery-free Wireless Interface for Touch, Swipe and Speech Input

Augmenting everyday surfaces with interaction sensing capability that is maintenance-free, low-cost (∼ $1), and in an appropriate form factor is a challenge with current technologies. MARS (Multi-channel Ambiently-powered Realtime Sensing) enables battery-free sensing and wireless communication of touch, swipe, and sp…

UIST '215th+ AuthorPasswords & Authentication +1

Bit Whisperer: Enabling Ad-hoc, Short-range, Walk-Up-and-Share Data Transmissions via Surface-restricted Acoustics

Bluetooth requires device pairing to ensure security in data transmission, encumbering a number of ad-hoc, transactional interactions that require both ease-of-use and ``good enough'' security: e.g., sharing contact information or secure links to people nearby. We introduce Bit Whisperer, an ad-hoc short-range wirele…

CHI '185th+ AuthorHand Gesture Recognition +1

FingerPing: Recognizing Fine-grained Hand Poses using Active Acoustic On-body Sensing

FingerPing is a novel sensing technique that can recognize various fine-grained hand poses by analyzing acoustic resonance features. A surface-transducer mounted on a thumb ring injects acoustic chirps (20Hz to 6,000Hz) to the body. Four receivers distributed on the wrist and thumb collect the chirps. Different hand…

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