March 3, 2020. Liang He Awarded GPSS Travel Grant to Attend CHI!

Feb. 7, 2020. Project Sidewalk Columbus, OH Deployment in the News

Jan. 31, 2020. Makeability Lab Video Game Night!

Jan. 28, 2020. Project Tokyo: Using AI to Help Blind People Identify Faces

Jan. 27, 2020. Happy Chinese New Year!

Recent Projects

HomeSound: Smarthome Sound Awareness

2018 – Present

ARMath

2018 – Present

PneuFetch

2019 – 2020

Project Sidewalk

2012 – Present

Transportation Analytics

2010 – 2012

AccessVis

2016 – Present

Accessibility-Infused Maps

2016 – Present

Deaf Travel Autoethnography

2018 – 2019

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Recent Videos

Ondulé UIST'19 Talk

YouTube | Ondulé

Ondulé: Designing and Controlling 3D Printable Springs

YouTube | Paper | Ondulé

A Multi-Modal Approach for Blind and Visually Impaired Developers To Edit Webpage Designs

YouTube | UITalk

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Recent Papers

HomeSound: An Iterative Field Deployment of an In-Home Sound Awareness System for Deaf or Hard of Hearing Users

Proceedings of CHI 2020 To Appear

Dhruv Jain, Kelly Mack, Akli Amrous, Steven Goodman, Matt Wright, Leah Findlater, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | Citation • HomeSound: Smarthome Sound Awareness

Involving End-Users in HCI Education: A Case Study and Steps Forward

EduCHI 2020 To Appear

Wendy Roldan, Jon E. Froehlich, Jason Yip

PneuFetch: Supporting Blind and Visually Impaired People to Fetch Nearby Objects via Light Haptic Cues

CHI 2020 To Appear

Liang He, Ruolin Wang, Xuhai Xu

PDF | Citation • PneuFetch

Opportunities and Challenges in Involving Users in Project-Based HCI Education

Proceedings of CHI 2020 To Appear | Honorable Mention

Wendy Roldan, Xin Gao, Allison Marie Hishikawa, Tiffany Ku, Ziyue Li, Echo Zhang, Jon E. Froehlich, Jason Yip

ARMath: Augmenting Everyday Life with Math Learning

Proceedings of CHI 2020 To Appear

Seokbin Kang, Ekta Shokeen, Virginia Byrne, Leyla Norooz, Elizabeth Bonsignore, Caro Williams-Pierce, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | Citation • ARMath

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

Proceedings of CHI 2020 To Appear

Steven Goodman, Susanne Kirchner, Rose Guttman, Dhruv Jain, Jon E. Froehlich, Leah Findlater

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Recent Talks

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

Deep Learning for Automatically Detecting Sidewalk Accessibility Problems Using Streetscape Imagery

Oct. 29, 2019 | ASSETS'19

Pittsburgh, PA

PDF | PPTX | Deep Learning for Sidewalk Assessment

Autoethnography of a Hard of Hearing Traveler

Oct. 29, 2019 | ASSETS 2019

Pittsburgh, PA

PDF | PPTX | Deaf Travel Autoethnography

Ondulé: Designing and Controlling 3D Printable Springs

Oct. 22, 2019 | UIST 2019 Technical Paper Talk

New Orleans

PDF | PPTX | Video | Paper | Ondulé

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

Sept. 30, 2019 | WSRO 2019 Keynote

Spokane, WA

PDF | PPTX | Project Sidewalk

Project Sidewalk: A Web-based Crowdsourcing Tool for Collecting Sidewalk Accessibility Data at Scale

May 7, 2019 | CHI'19

Glasgow, UK

PDF | PPTX | Project Sidewalk

Thermporal: An Easy-to-Deploy Temporal Thermographic Sensor System to Support Residential Energy Audits

May 4, 2019 | CHI'19

Glasgow, UK

Matthew L Mauriello

PDF | PPTX | Paper | Thermporal

Towards Accessible Conversations in a Mobile Context for People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

Oct. 22, 2018 | ASSETS 2018 Talk

Galway, Ireland

PDF | PPTX | SlideShare | Paper | AR Captioning

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