a photo of Brittany Lewis

About Me

I recently graduated with my PhD from The University of Rhode Island.

My previous research focus has been on improving authentication for people with upper body motor disabilities.

Publications

  • Brittany Lewis, Priyankan Kirupaharan, Tina-Marie Ranalli, and Krishna Venkatasubramanian. 2024. A3C: An Image-Association-Based Computing Device Authentication Framework for People with Upper Extremity Impairments. ACM Trans. Access. Comput. 17, 2, Article 6 (June 2024), 37 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3652522.
  • Award Ribbon Honorable Mention Brittany Lewis, Tina-Marie Ranalli, Alexandra Gourley, Piriyankan Kirupaharan, and Krishna Venkatasubramanian. 2023. “I… caught a person casing my house… and scared him off:” The Use of Security-Focused Smart Home Devices by People with Disabilities. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 846, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581007
  • Brittany Lewis, Paige Courtemanche, and Krishna Venkatasubramanian. 2022. “Sometimes I feel that I’m being left behind”: Exploring Computing Device Use by People with Upper Extremity Impairment During the COVID-19 Pandemic. In Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ‘22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.
  • ML Tlachac, Miranda Reisch, Brittany Lewis, Ricardo Flores, Lane Harrison, and Elke Rundensteiner, “Impact Assessment of Stereotype Threat on Mobile Depression Screening using Bayesian Estimation”, Healthcare Analytics, Elsevier
  • Brittany Lewis and Krishna Venkatasubramanian. 2021. “I…Got my Nose-Print. But it Wasn’t Accurate”: How People with Upper Extremity Impairment Authenticate on their Personal Computing Devices. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’21), May 8–13, 2021, Yokohama, Japan.
  • Award Ribbon Honorable Mention Krishna Venkatasubramanian, Jeanine Skorinko, Mariam Kobeissi, Brittany Lewis, Nicole Jutras, Pauline Bosma, John Mullaly, Brian Kelly, Deborah Lloyd, Mariah Freark, and Nancy Alterio. 2021. Exploring A Reporting Tool to Empower Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities to Self-Report Abuse. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’21), May 8–13, 2021, Yokohama, Japan.
  • Lewis, Brittany, Joshua Hebert, Krishna Venkatasubramanian, Matthew Provost, and Kelly Charlebois. “A New Authentication Approach for People with Upper Extremity Impairment.” In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2020.
  • Singh, Rohitpal, Brittany Lewis, Brittany Chapman, Stephanie Carreiro, and Krishna Venkatasubramanian. “A Machine Learning-based Approach for Collaborative Non-Adherence Detection during Opioid Abuse Surveillance using a Wearable Biosensor.” In Biomedical engineering systems and technologies, international joint conference, BIOSTEC… revised selected papers. BIOSTEC (Conference), vol. 5, pp. 310-318. 2019.
  • Lewis, Brittany, Christopher J. Nycz, Gregory S. Fischer, and Krishna K. Venkatasubramanian. “Authentication-Based on Biomechanics of Finger Movements Captured Using Optical Motion-Capture.” In International Symposium on Visual Computing, pp. 167-179. Springer, Cham, 2018.

Other Awards

  • (2019) NSF GRFP Honorable Mention
  • (2018) Worcester Polytechnic Institute Presidential Fellowship