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
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
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
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
TongueBoard: An Oral Interface for Subtle Input
Richard Li, Jason Wu, Thad Starner
ScratchVR: Low-Cost, Calibration-Free Sensing for Tactile Input on Mobile Virtual Reality Enclosures
Richard Li, Victor Chen, Gabriel Reyes, Thad Starner
Buccal: Low-Cost Cheek Sensing for Inferring Continuous Jaw Motion in Mobile Virtual Reality
Richard Li, Gabriel Reyes
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
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