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Harriet J. Fell |
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Professor Fell has served on the Northeastern University faculty for twenty-seven years, first in the Mathematics department and later in the College of Computer Science. In 1985, she teamed with Associate Professor Linda Ferrier, of Northeastern's Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology department, to address design and development of software to aid people with physical disabilities. Her research involves user interface design, signal processing for speech analysis, and testing with people ages four months through adult. Professor Fell is secretary/treasurer of the national ACM Special Interest Group in Computers and the Physically Handicapped.
She and Professor Ferrier received a U.S. Department of Education grant to develop the Baby Babble Blanket, an interface for infants with severe motor disabilities. Currently, Professor Fell is principal investigator on a National Institute of Health grant to develop the Early Vocalization Analyzer, which automatically analyzes digitized recordings of infant vocalizations. Professors Fell and Ferrier are also developing the Deaf-Infant Babble Stimulator, which will provide real-time visual reinforcement of infant vocalizations. It is intended for deaf or severely hearing-impaired infants who may or may not be later candidates for cochlear implants. For other children, it could provide the basis for an alternative visual phonology.
With her College of Computer Science colleagues Viera K. Proulx and Richard A. Rasala, Professor Fell has developed modules, toolkits, and laboratory assignments for computer science teaching.
Career Publication Highlights
Fell, Harriet J. 1991. Linear complexity of transformed sequences. In proceedings, Eurocode '90: International symposium on coding theory and applications. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 514. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag.
Fell, Harriet J., Linda Ferrier, Zehra Mooraj, Hariklia Delta, and Dana Moscoe. 1996. Baby Babble Blanket: An infant interface with automatic data. Augmentative and Alternative Communication 12, no. 2 (June): 110-119.
Fell, Harriet J., Joel MacAuslan, Linda J. Ferrier, and Karen Chenausky. 1999. Automatic babble recognition for early detection of speech-related disorders. Behaviour & Information Technology 18, no. 1:56-63