Dec. 18, 2020. Liang He Passes General Exam

Dec. 11, 2020. Dhruv Jain Passes General Exam

Nov. 10, 2020. Announcing Dr. Seokbin Kang

Oct. 29, 2020. SoundWatch Wins Best Artifact Award at ASSETS

Oct. 7, 2020. Manaswi Saha Honored with Google PhD Fellowship

Recent Projects

SoundWatch

2018 – Present

Personalizing Sound Recognition

2019 – Present

HoloSound

2020 – Present

Project Sidewalk

2012 – Present

HomeSound

2018 – Present

ARMath

2018 – 2020

PneuFetch

2019 – 2020

AccessVis

2016 – Present

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Recent Papers

Toward User-Driven Sound Recognizer Personalization with People who are d/Deaf or Hard of Hearing

Proceedings of IMWUT 2021 To Appear

Steven Goodman, Ping Liu, Dhruv Jain, Emma McDonnell, Jon E. Froehlich, Leah Findlater

PDF | Citation • SoundWatch • Personalizing Sound Recognition

Examining Visual Semantic Understanding in Blind and Low-Vision Technology Users

Proceedings of CHI 2021

Venkatesh Potluri, Tad Grindeland, Jon E. Froehlich, Jennifer Mankoff

HulaMove: Using Commodity IMU for Waist Interaction

CHI 2021

Xuhai Xu, Jiahao Li, Tianyi Yuan, Liang He, Yunkang Yan, Xin Liu, Yuntao Wang, Yuanchun Shi, Jennifer Mankoff, Anind K. Dey

What Do We Mean by “Accessibility Research”? A Literature Survey of Accessibility Papers in CHI and ASSETS from 1994 to 2019

Proceedings of CHI 2021 | Honorable Mention

Kelly Mack, Emma McDonnell, Dhruv Jain, Lucy Lu Wang, Jon E. Froehlich, Leah Findlater

PDF | Citation | Code

A bibliometric analysis of citation diversity in accessibility and HCI research

Extended Abstracts of CHI 2021

Lucy Lu Wang, Kelly Mack, Emma McDonnell, Dhruv Jain, Leah Findlater, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | Citation | Code | Talk

HoloSound: Combining Speech and Sound Identification for Deaf or Hard of Hearing Users on a Head-mounted Display

Poster Proceedings of ASSETS 2020

Greg Guo, Robin Yiru Yang, Johnson Kuang, Xue Bin, Dhruv Jain, Steven Goodman, Leah Findlater, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | doi | Citation | Code • HoloSound

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Recent Videos

Sound Sensing and Feedback Techniques for d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users

ACM ISWC'20 conference talk on Field Study of a Wearable Tactile Device for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users

YouTube | Paper

HoloSound: Combining Speech and Sound Identification for Deaf or Hard of Hearing Users on a Head-mounted Display

YouTube | Paper | HoloSound

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Recent Talks

A bibliometric analysis of citation diversity in accessibility and HCI research

May 10, 2021 | CHI2021

Virtual

PDF | Paper | Accessibility Literature Survey

Sound Sensing and Feedback Techniques for d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users

March 12, 2021 | BITS Pilani

Hyderabad, India

PDF | PPTX | HoloSound | HomeSound | SoundWatch

Sound Sensing and Feedback Techniques for d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users

Feb. 18, 2021 | UW Speech and Hearing Center

Virtual

PDF | PPTX | HoloSound | HomeSound | SoundWatch

Sound Sensing and Feedback Techniques for d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users

Dec. 11, 2020 | UW General exam

Virtual

PDF | PPTX | Video | HoloSound | HomeSound | SoundWatch

SoundWatch: Exploring Smartwatch-based Deep Learning Approaches to Support Sound Awareness for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users

Oct. 28, 2020 | ASSETS 2020

Virtual

PDF | PPTX | SoundWatch

Evaluating Smartwatch-based Sound Feedback for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Users Across Contexts

May 10, 2020 | CHI 2020

Virtual

PDF | PPTX | SoundWatch

Project Sidewalk: Mapping the Accessibility of the Physical World at Scale using Interactive Computational Tools

Jan. 22, 2020 | Google Tech Talk

Seattle, WA

PDF | PPTX | Project Sidewalk | Deep Learning for Sidewalk Assessment | AccessVis | Accessibility-Infused Maps | Urban Accessibility Evolution | Transportation Analytics

Field Deployment of a Smarthome Sound Awareness System for Deaf or Hard of Hearing Users

Nov. 13, 2019 | UW Qualifying exams

University of Washington

PDF | PPTX | Video | HomeSound

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