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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 Accessibility; Design; Wearables; Security. My Involvement This was a student research competition entry. I built a Google Glass app using the Android Development Kit in JAVA, a Chrome web browser plug-in and a PHP server to provide communications between the Glass app and the browser plug in. Affiliation University of Maryland Baltimore Coun
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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 Fourney. I came aboard an existing project they had worked on to understand the needs of web searchers with dyslexia. I have done and published work in the past researching computer accessibility during my undergraduate and masters studies at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). I also have done work specifically with people with dys
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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 their browsing experience. Research Areas Design; AI; Accessibility. My Involvement I developed the Chrome plug-in using in Javascript. I set up a PHP server to handle storing users' pointing data and run them through a Weka classifier to identify pointing difficulty. I designed three different in-browser notification designs with varying degre
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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 designed and built the Dytective game with 18 different levels using HTML and Javascript. I set up a server running PHP and MySQL database to store data and export it for analysis to classify users performance patterns consistent with those of people with dyslexia. Affiliation Carnegie Mellon University. Awards 2016 UAE AI and Robotics for g
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