For a full listing, see my Curriculum Vitae.
Advisors:
Conference Papers:
- I. Naim, W.S. Lasecki, J.P. Bigham, D. Gildea. Text Alignment for Real-Time Crowd Captioning. In Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Conference (NAACL 2013). Atlanta, GA. To Appear.
- W.S. Lasecki, C.D. Miller, J.P. Bigham. Warping Time for More Effective Real-Time Crowdsourcing. In Proceedings of the International ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013). Paris, France. To Appear.
- W.S. Lasecki, Y. Song, H. Kautz, J.P. Bigham. Real-Time Crowd Labeling for Deployable Activity Recognition. In Proceedings of the International ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2013). San Antonio, TX. To Appear.
- W.S. Lasecki, J.P. Bigham. Online Quality Control for Real-time Crowd Captioning. In Proceedings of the International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility (ASSETS 2012). Boulder, CO. p143-150.
- R. Kushalnagar, W.S. Lasecki, J.P. Bigham. A Readability Evaluation of Real-Time Crowd Captions in the Classroom. In Proceedings of the International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility (ASSETS 2012). Boulder, CO. p71-78.
- W.S. Lasecki, C.D. Miller, A. Sadilek, A. Abumoussa, D. Borrello, R. Kushalnagar, J.P. Bigham. Real-time Captioning by Groups of Non-Experts. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2012). Boston, MA. p23-34. Best Paper Award Nominee
- W.S. Lasecki, S. White, K.I. Murray, J.P. Bigham. Crowd Memory: Learning in the Collective. In Proceedings of Collective Intelligence 2012 (CI 2012). Boston, MA.
- W.S. Lasecki, K.I. Murray, S. White, R.C. Miller, J.P. Bigham. Real-time Crowd Control of Existing Interfaces. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2011). Santa Barbra, CA. p23-32.
Workshops:
- W.S. Lasecki and J.P. Bigham. Spoken Control of Existing Mobile Interfaces With the Crowd. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Student Research Competition Workshop on Mobile Accessibility (MOBACC 2013). Paris, France.
Posters, Abstracts, and Demos:
- W.S. Lasecki. Real-Time Conversational Crowd Assistants. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Student Research Competition (CHI 2013). Paris, France.
- M. Murphy, C.D. Miller, W.S. Lasecki, J.P. Bigham. Adaptive Time Windows for Real-Time Crowd Captioning. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013). Paris, France.
- W.S. Lasecki, T. Lau, Grant He, J.P. Bigham Crowd-Based Recognition of Web Interaction Patterns. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '12). Boston, MA.
- W.S. Lasecki, R. Wesley, A. Kulkarni, J.P. Bigham Speaking With the Crowd. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '12). Boston, MA.
- Y. Song, W.S. Lasecki, J.P. Bigham, H. Kautz. Online Training of Activity Recognition Systems. In Proceedings of Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP '12). Pittsburgh, PA.
- W.S. Lasecki, J.P. Bigham, J.F. Allen, G. Ferguson. Real-time Collaborative Planning with the Crowd. In Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2012). Toronto, Canada.
- W.S. Lasecki, C.D. Miller, D. Borrello, J.P. Bigham. Online Sequence Alignment for Real-time Audio Transcription by Non-experts. In Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2012). Toronto, Canada.
- W.S. Lasecki, J.P. Bigham. Self Correcting Crowds. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2012). Austin, TX.
- Y. Zhong, P. Thiha, G. He, W.S. Lasecki, J.P. Bigham. Using Real-time Feedback to Improve Visual Question Answering. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2012). Austin, TX.
Technical Reports and Thesis:
- W.S. Lasecki, A. Kulkarni, R. Wesley, J. Nichols, C. Hu, J.F. Allen, J.P. Bigham. Chorus: Letting the Crowd Speak with One Voice. University of Rochester Technical Report #983. 2012.
- P. Singh, W.S. Lasecki, P. Barelli, J.P. Bigham. HiveMind: A Framework for Optimizing Open-Ended Responses From the Crowd. University of Rochester Technical Report #978. 2012.
- W.S. Lasecki. Crowd Agents. University of Rochester Masters Thesis. 2012. Advisors: Jeffrey P. Bigham and James F. Allen.
- W.S. Lasecki, H. Kautz. Planning With Tests, Branches, and Non-Deterministic Actions as Satisfiability. University of Rochester Technical Report #979. 2012.
Awards:
- Best Paper Nominee - UIST 2012
- 1st Place - UIST '10 Student Innovation Contest: Most Creative (with Robin Miller, Anna Loparev and Sam White)
Teaching:
- (TA) CSC 242 [BCS 232] - Artificial Intelligence (Spring 2012 | George Ferguson)
- (TA) CSC 242 [BCS 232] - Artificial Intelligence (Spring 2011 | George Ferguson)
Education:
- M.S. Computer Science - University of Rochester (October 2011)
- B.S. Computer Science - Virginia Tech (May 2010)
- B.S. [Applied Discrete] Mathematics - Virginia Tech (May 2010)
Advising:
I am a strong supporter of undergraduate and cross-disciplinary research. It is a great way to get experience
whether your goal is to get into grad school, to get a top industry position, or just to have fun helping with a project.
I am always happy to work
with students (undergrad or grad, CS or other fields) who are interested in any of the projects listed on this page,
on the ROC HCI projects or
ROC HCI publications pages, or have their own idea of what
research project/topic they'd like to work on. If this describes you, feel free to send me an email at
wlasecki@cs.rochester.edu!









