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I gave a talk at harvard
Admin
  • Mar 24
  • 1 min

I gave a talk at harvard

I was invited to give a guest lecture about my work on Distributed Interaction Design (DXD) by my friend Dr. Elena Glassman to her class...
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I gave a talk at the university of Michigan
Admin
  • Mar 24
  • 1 min

I gave a talk at the university of Michigan

I was invited to give a guest lecture about my work on Distributed Interaction Design (DXD) by my friend Dr. Robin Brewer to her class at...
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I'M moving to NYC!
Admin
  • Mar 24
  • 1 min

I'M moving to NYC!

In January 2021, I, along with my fiancee and two cats, moved to Brooklyn!
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I'm joining Amazon!
Abdullah X. Ali
  • Mar 24
  • 1 min

I'm joining Amazon!

In September 2020, I started working at Amazon Web Services.
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Admin
  • Oct 29, 2019
  • 1 min

THE DAILY: ACE Lab Article

I talked to the The Daily newspaper at UW about my work, Accessibility, and the cool work we do at the ACE Lab. #News
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Distributed interaction Design
Abdullah X. Ali
  • Jun 26, 2019
  • 1 min

Distributed interaction Design

My Ph.D. dissertation work is about Distributed User-Driven Design. I am working to answer the following questions: 1. Can we get people...
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Spending the summer at Apple!
Abdullah X. Ali
  • Jun 26, 2019
  • 1 min

Spending the summer at Apple!

I happy to announce that I will be spending the summer of 2019 in Cupertino. I have joined Siri's Advanced Development Group at  as an...
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Abdullah X. Ali
  • Feb 5, 2019
  • 1 min

Paper Accepted: CHI 2019

I just published a paper at the CHI 2019 conference titled "Crowdlicit: A System for Conducting Distributed End-User Elicitation and...
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Abdullah X. Ali
  • Feb 5, 2019
  • 1 min

A Ph.D. Candidate!

On December 10th 2019 I passed my general exam making me a Ph.D. candidate! Next step: Dissertation proposal! #News
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Crowdlicit
Abdullah X. Ali
  • Feb 5, 2019
  • 2 min

Crowdlicit

About End-user elicitation studies are a popular design method. Currently, such studies are usually confined to a lab, limiting the...
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Abdullah X. Ali
  • Sep 4, 2018
  • 1 min

Paper Accepted: UIST 2018

I will be headed to Berlin in October to present my work on using online crowds to analyze the results of end-user elicitation studies....
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Crowdsensus
Abdullah X. Ali
  • Aug 6, 2018
  • 1 min

Crowdsensus

About End-user elicitation studies are a popular design method, but their data require substantial time and effort to analyze. In this...
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Dare Devil
Abdullah Ali
  • Aug 2, 2018
  • 1 min

Dare Devil

About I used Google glass to provide an authentication mechanism for logging in to online accounts on desktop computers. Research Areas...
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Search+Dyslexia
Abdullah Ali
  • Aug 2, 2018
  • 2 min

Search+Dyslexia

About I was a research intern at Microsoft Research (MSR) last summer of 2017 mentored by Dr. Meredith Ringel Morris and Dr. Adam...
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H4PLock
Abdullah Ali
  • Aug 2, 2018
  • 1 min

H4PLock

About H4PLock is a mobile lock screen which employs sequences of user-generated invisible gestures performed on one or more of four...
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PINATA
Abdullah Ali
  • Aug 2, 2018
  • 1 min

PINATA

About PINATA is a Chrome browser plug-in which detects when users are having pointing difficulties, notifies them, and offer to adapt...
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Dytective
Abdullah Ali
  • Aug 2, 2018
  • 1 min

Dytective

About Dytective is a web-based game that detects the risk of having dyslexia. Research Areas Design; AI; Accessibility. My Involvement I...
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MSR Internship work (Update)
Abdullah Ali
  • Jan 5, 2018
  • 1 min

MSR Internship work (Update)

The hard labor of my summer internship at Microsoft Research has paid off. Our paper titled "Understanding the Needs of Searchers with...
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I presented my work at the HCOMP Doctoral Consortium in Quebec
Abdullah Ali
  • Jan 5, 2018
  • 1 min

I presented my work at the HCOMP Doctoral Consortium in Quebec

Last October I had the privilege of being accepted to the Doctoral Consortium at the AAAI HCOMP conference. I went to the beautiful...
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How I Learned to Code and Landed My First Research Job
Abdullah Ali
  • Jan 5, 2018
  • 4 min

How I Learned to Code and Landed My First Research Job

During my senior year of college, I was searching for some electives to satisfy my Information Systems degree requirements. The goal:...
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