Dr. Anat Caspi designs for the fullness of human experience, guided by the belief that designing technology for heterogeneous populations necessarily requires mixed practices of participatory design, qualitative and quantitative methods. Her research interests are in the areas of applied machine learning, ubiquitous computing and contextually aware robotic systems. She is the Director of the Taskar Center for Accessible Technology at the Paul G. Allen School for Computer Science & Engineering (located at the University of Washington). The Center’s mission is to develop, translate and deploy technologies with a focus on benefiting individuals with disabilities. TCAT has been developing open source universally accessible technologies in the areas of sensors & switches for contextually-aware, responsive environments, as well as transportation and mobility.