March 4, 2023. Chu Li Presents Project Sidewalk to World IA Day

March 3, 2023. Makeability Lab Members at the Annual Allen School Ski Day

March 2, 2023. Congrats to Stefania Druga on Passing the PhD Defense!

Feb. 28, 2023. Makeability Lab Members Visit the T-mobile Tech Experience Center

Feb. 14, 2023. Dhruv Jain Honored with SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award

Recent Projects

Kinergy

2020 – 2022

sPrintr

2022 – Present

Project Sidewalk

2012 – Present

Deep Learning for Sidewalk Assessment

2016 – Present

Urban Accessibility Evolution

2015 – Present

RASSAR

2022 – Present

Accessibility-Infused Maps

2016 – Present

Sidewalk Equity

2022 – Present

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Recent Papers

“Easier or Harder, Depending on Who the Hearing Person Is”: Codesigning Videoconferencing Tools for Small Groups with Mixed Hearing Status

Proceedings of CHI 2023 To Appear

Emma McDonnell, Soo Hyun Moon, Lucy Jiang, Steven Goodman, Raja Kushalnagar, Jon E. Froehlich, Leah Findlater

Kinergy: Creating 3D Printable Motion using Embedded Kinetic Energy

Proceedings of UIST 2022

Liang He, Xia Su, Huaishu Peng, Jeffrey I. Lipton, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | doi | Citation | Kinergy

sPrintr: Towards In-Situ Personal Fabrication using a Mobile 3D

Proceedings of SCF 2022

Daniel Campos Zamora, Liang He, Yueqian Zhang, Xuhai Xu, Jennifer Mankoff, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | doi | Citation | sPrintr

Scaling Crowd+AI Sidewalk Accessibility Assessments: Initial Experiments Examining Label Quality and Cross-city Training on Performance

Poster Proceedings of ASSETS'22

Michael Duan, Sho Kiami, Logan Milandin, Johnson Kuang, Mikey Saugstad, Maryam Hosseini, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | doi | Citation | Project Sidewalk • Deep Learning for Sidewalk Assessment

The Future of Urban Accessibility for People with Disabilities: Data Collection, Analytics, Policy, and Tools

ASSETS'22 Workshop on The Future of Urban Accessibility

Jon E. Froehlich, Yochai Eisenberg, Maryam Hosseini, Fabio Miranda, Marc Adams, Anat Caspi, Holger Dieterich, Heather Feldner, Aldo Gonzalez, Claudina de Gyves, Joy Hammel, Reuben Kirkham, Melanie Kneisel, Delphine Labbé, Stephen J. Mooney, Victor Pineda, Cláudia Pinhão, Ana Rodríguez, Manaswi Saha, Mikey Saugstad, Judy L. Shanley, Ather Sharif, Qing Shen, Claudio Silva, Maarten Sukel, Eric K. Tokuda, Sebastian Felix Zappe, Anna Zivarts

PDF | doi | Citation | Project Sidewalk • Urban Accessibility Evolution • Deep Learning for Sidewalk Assessment • Accessibility-Infused Maps

Towards Semi-automatic Detection and Localization of Indoor Accessibility Issues using Mobile Depth Scanning and Computer Vision

UrbanAccess 2022

Xia Su, Kaiming Cheng, Han Zhang, Jaewook Lee, Yueqian Zhang, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | doi | Citation | RASSAR

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Recent Videos

ProtoSound: A Personalized and Scalable Sound Recognition System for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Users

YouTube | Paper | ProtoSound

Sidewalk Gallery: An Interactive, Filterable Image Gallery of Sidewalk Accessibility Problems

YouTube | Paper | Sidewalk Gallery

Experimental Crowd+AI Approaches to Track Accessibility Features in Sidewalk Intersections Over Time

YouTube | Paper | Urban Accessibility Evolution

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Recent Talks

SciStarter + Project Sidewalk: MLK Jr. Day of Service

Jan. 10, 2023 | SciStarter

Zoom

Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | Project Sidewalk

Scalable Techniques to Study the Equitable Distribution and Condition of US Sidewalks

Dec. 14, 2022 | ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems)

Tacoma, Washington

PDF | Project Sidewalk

Kinergy: Creating 3D Printable Motion using Embedded Kinetic Energy

Nov. 2, 2022 | UIST'22

Bend, OR

PDF | PPTX | Kinergy

Crowd + AI Tools for Scalable Sidewalk Assessment

Dec. 13, 2021 | Spatial Data Science Symposium 2021

Virtual

Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | PPTX | Accessibility-Infused Maps | Project Sidewalk | AccessVis

Designing Interactive Computational Tools for Understanding Urban Accessibility at Scale

May 28, 2021 | PhD Generals Exam

Virtual

PDF | Accessibility-Infused Maps | Project Sidewalk | AccessVis

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 | Carnegie Mellon University, HCII Lecture

Virtual

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

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