Recent Projects

This is the thumbnail image for the project Engaging with Children's Artwork in Mixed Visual-Ability Families

Engaging with Children's Artwork in Mixed Visual-Ability Families

2023 – Present

This is the thumbnail image for the project SonifyAR: Context-Aware Sound Generation in Augmented Reality

SonifyAR: Context-Aware Sound Generation in Augmented Reality

2023 – Present

An example CookAR assistive vision overlay showing the graspable handle of the knife, the hazardous blade, and the intersection area with the target object

CookAR

2023 – Present

This is the thumbnail image for the project MobiPrint

MobiPrint

2022 – Present

This is the thumbnail image for the project AltGeoViz

AltGeoViz

2024 – Present

This is the thumbnail image for the project Project Sidewalk

Project Sidewalk

2012 – Present

This is the thumbnail image for the project RASSAR

RASSAR

2022 – Present

An image of Jae wearing the HoloLens 1 and pointing to a bag of chips in a grocery aisle asking "What is this?"

GazePointAR

2022 – Present

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Recent Papers

Engaging with Children’s Artwork in Mixed Visual-Ability Families

ASSETS To Appear

Arnavi Chheda-Kothary, Jacob Wobbrock, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | Citation | Engaging with Children's Artwork in Mixed Visual-Ability Families

MobiPrint: A Mobile 3D Printer for Environment-Scale Design and Fabrication

UIST 2024 To Appear

Daniel Campos Zamora, Liang He, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | Citation | MobiPrint

AltGeoViz: Facilitating Accessible Geovisualization

IEEE VIS 2024 To Appear

Chu Li, Rock Pang, Ather Sharif, Arnavi Chheda-Kothary, Jeffrey Heer, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | doi | Citation | AltGeoViz

CookAR: Affordance Augmentations in Wearable AR to Support Kitchen Tool Interactions for People with Low Vision

UIST 2024 To Appear

Jaewook Lee, Andrew D. Tjahjadi, Junpu Yu, Minji Park, Jon E. Froehlich, Yapeng Tian, Yuhang Zhao

PDF | doi | Citation | CookAR

SonifyAR: Context-Aware Sound Generation in Augmented Reality

UIST To Appear

Xia Su, Jon E. Froehlich, Eunyee Koh, Chang Xiao

PDF | Citation | SonifyAR: Context-Aware Sound Generation in Augmented Reality

SonifyAR: Context-Aware Sound Effect Generation in Augmented Reality

CHI 2024

Xia Su, Eunyee Koh, Chang Xiao

PDF | doi | Citation | SonifyAR: Context-Aware Sound Generation in Augmented Reality

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Recent Videos

RASSAR: Room Accessibility and Safety Scanning in Augmented Reality

Project Sidewalk: Crowd+AI Techniques to Map and Assess Every Sidewalk in the World

Project Sidewalk: Crowd+AI Techniques to Map & Assess the World's Sidewalks

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Recent Talks

RASSAR: Room Accessibility and Safety Scanning in Augmented Reality

May 15, 2024 | CHI 2024

Honolulu, Hawaiʻi

PDF | PPTX | RASSAR

GazePointAR: A Context-Aware Multimodal Voice Assistant for Pronoun Disambiguation in Wearable Augmented Reality

May 15, 2024 | CHI

Honolulu, Hawaiʻi

PDF | PPTX | GazePointAR

LabelAId: Just-in-time AI Interventions for Improving Human Labeling Quality and Domain Knowledge in Crowdsourcing Systems

May 14, 2024 | CHI 2024

Honolulu, Hawaiʻi

PDF | PPTX | LabelAId

“I never realized sidewalks were a big deal”: A Case Study of a Community-Driven Sidewalk Audit Using Project Sidewalk

May 9, 2024 | CHI 2024

Honolulu, Hawaiʻi

PDF | PPTX | Project Sidewalk + Community Science

Project Sidewalk: Crowd+AI Techniques to Map & Assess the World's Sidewalks

Feb. 29, 2024 | NSF Smart and Connected Communities Panel on “Pathways to Transitioning Project Outcomes"

Nashville, Tennessee

PDF | PPTX | Project Sidewalk + Community Science | Project Sidewalk | Deep Learning for Sidewalk Assessment

At the Intersection of Disability Justice, Pedestrian Safety, and Health

Jan. 7, 2024 | 103rd Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting

Washington DC

A Large-Scale Mixed-Methods Analysis of Blind and Low-vision Research in ACM and IEEE

Oct. 29, 2023 | ASSETS'23

NYC

PDF | PPTX | Accessibility Literature Survey

SciStarter + Project Sidewalk: MLK Jr. Day of Service

Jan. 10, 2023 | SciStarter

Zoom

PDF | Project Sidewalk

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We design, build, and evaluate new interactive tools and techniques to address pressing societal challenges. Makeability refers both to how our technological innovations make new abilities possible for humans as well as our educational mission to help students gain new abilities as they learn and grow through research, invention, and human-centered design.