Headshot of Richard wearing a Google Glass Hi! I'm Richard.

Currently a PhD student in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington (UW). Previously an intern on the EPIC and Ability teams at Microsoft Research, and was a research scholar at Google [x] and Google Research. Check out some of the cool and things I've worked on, and feel free to say hi :).

Research Overview

My research interests lie at the intersection of artificial intelligence, embedded systems, and human-computer interaction, materializing in the form of wearable and ubiquitous computers. I work with James Fogarty and Shwetak Patel (in the Ubicomp Lab) among many other amazing collaborators across multiple departments at the University of Washington on a variety of topics ranging from mobile health applications to novel user interfaces. I publish this work at academic venues such as the Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) journal and at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI); see below for a complete list of publications.

Selected Projects & Publications

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AdHocProx: Sensing Mobile, Ad-Hoc Collaborative Device Formations using Dual Ultra-Wideband Radios

Richard Li, Teddy Seyed, Nicolai Marquardt, Eyal Ofek, Steve Hodges, Mike Sinclair, Hugo Romat, Michel Pahud, Jatin Sharma, William Buxton, Ken Hinckley, Nathalie Henry Riche

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Evaluating a Novel, Portable, Self-Administrable Device ("Beacon") that Measures Critical Flicker Frequency as a Test for Hepatic Encephalopathy

Richard Li*, Philip Vutien*, Ravi Karkar, Sean A. Munson, James Fogarty, Kara Walter, Michael Yacoub, George N. Ioannou

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Optical Gaze Tracking with Spatially-Sparse Single-Pixel Detectors

Richard Li*, Eric Whitmire*, Michael Stengel, Ben Boudaoud, Jan Kautz, David Luebke, Shwetak Patel, and Kaan Akşit

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TongueBoard: An Oral Interface for Subtle Input

Richard Li, Jason Wu, Thad Starner

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EarBit: Using Wearable Sensors to Detect Eating Episodes in Unconstrained Environments

Abdelkareem Bedri, Richard Li, Malcolm Haynes, Raj Prateek Kosaraju, Ishaan Grover, Temiloluwa Prioleau, Min Yan Beh, Mayank Goel, Thad Starner, and Gregory Abowd

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Tactile Teacher: Enhancing Traditional Piano Lessons with Tactile Instructions

Richard Li, Yingyan Wang, Chih-Pin Hsiao, Nicholas Davis, James Hallam, and Ellen Do

Full List of Publications

Augmented Silkscreen: Designing AR Interactions for Debugging Printed Circuit Boards

Ishan Chatterjee, Olga Khvan, Tadeusz Pforte, Richard Li, Shwetak Patel

Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021

Understanding the Design Space of Mouth Microgestures

Victor Chen, Xuhai Xu, Richard Li, Yuanchun Shi, Shwetak Patel, Yuntao Wang

Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021

Mobile, Hands-free, Silent Speech Texting Using SilentSpeller

Naoki Kimura, Tan Gemicioglu, Jonathan Womack, Richard Li, Yuhui Zhao, Abdelkareem Bedri, Alex Olwal, Jun Rekimoto, Thad Starner

Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Evaluating a novel, portable, self-administered device ("flicker-app") that measures critical flicker frequency as a test for hepatic encephalopathy in patients with cirrhosis

Philip Vutien, Ravi Karkar, Richard Li, Kara Walter, Sean Munson, James Fogarty, George Ioannou

The Liver Meeting Digital Experience

Prediction of mood instability with passive sensing

Mehrab Bin Morshed, Koustuv Saha, Richard Li, Sidney K D'Mello, Munmun De Choudhury, Gregory D Abowd, Thomas Plötz

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies

A Real-Time Eating Detection System for Capturing Eating Moments and Triggering Ecological Momentary Assessments to Obtain Further Context: System Development and Validation Study

Mehrab Bin Morshed, Samruddhi Shreeram Kulkarni, Richard Li, Koustuv Saha, Leah Galante Roper, Lama Nachman, Hong Lu, Lucia Mirabella, Sanjeev Srivastava, Munmun De Choudhury

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Optical gaze tracking with spatially-sparse single-pixel detectors

Richard Li, Eric Whitmire, Michael Stengel, Ben Boudaoud, Jan Kautz, David Luebke, Shwetak Patel, Kaan Akşit

2020 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR)

Kissglass: Greeting gesture recognition using smart glasses

Richard Li, Juyoung Lee, Woontack Woo, Thad Starner

Proceedings of the Augmented Humans International Conference

ScratchThat: Supporting Command-Agnostic Speech Repair in Voice-Driven Assistants

Jason Wu, Karan Ahuja, Richard Li, Victor Chen, Jeffrey Bigham

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies

TongueBoard: An oral interface for subtle input

Richard Li, Jason Wu, Thad Starner

Proceedings of the 10th Augmented Human International Conference 2019

ScratchVR: low-cost, calibration-free sensing for tactile input on mobile virtual reality enclosures

Richard Li, Victor Chen, Gabriel Reyes, Thad Starner

Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers

Buccal: Low-cost cheek sensing for inferring continuous jaw motion in mobile virtual reality

Richard Li & Gabriel Reyes

Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers

Wristwash: towards automatic handwashing assessment using a wrist-worn device

Hong Li, Shishir Chawla, Richard Li, Sumeet Jain, Gregory D Abowd, Thad Starner, Cheng Zhang, Thomas Plötz

Proceedings of the 2018 ACM international symposium on wearable computers

EarBit: Using Wearable Sensors to Detect Eating Episodes in Unconstrained Environments

Abdelkareem Bedri, Richard Li, Malcolm Haynes, Raj Prateek Kosaraju, Ishaan Grover, Temiloluwa Prioleau, Min Yan Beh, Mayank Goel, Thad Starner, Gregory Abowd

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies

Tactile Teacher: Enhancing Traditional Piano Lessons with Tactile Instructions

Richard Li, Yingyan Wang, Chih-Pin Hsiao, Nicholas Davis, James Hallam, Ellen Yi-Luen Do

19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Companion

Tactile teacher: Sensing finger tapping in piano playing

Chih-Pin Hsiao, Richard Li, Xinyan Yan, Ellen Yi-Luen Do

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction