Taylor is a second-year PhD student in the Paul G Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. She is advised by Professor Jennifer Mankoff. In 2017, she graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with bachelor’s degrees in Computer Engineering and Cognitive Science. She then earned her Masters in Human Computer Interaction from Rochester Institute of Technology in 2019.
Her research interests focus on trying to make fabrication more accessible for people with disabilities. Her prior research explored how to make the e-textile circuit development process more accessible for adults with intellectual disabilities. Her recent projects focus on understanding the kinds of difficulties that people with disabilities face while knitting, and developing technologies to help users overcome some of these difficulties.
