Dec. 9, 2019. Four Papers Accepted to CHI2020!

Nov. 30, 2019. Makeability Lab Thanksgiving!

Nov. 20, 2019. HomeSound Wins People's Choice Award

Oct. 29, 2019. Deep Learning for Sidewalk Accessibility Awarded 'Best Student Paper' at ASSETS'19

Oct. 29, 2019. Venkatesh Presents UITalk Poster

Recent Projects

HomeSound: Smarthome Sound Awareness

2018 – Present

ARMath

2018 – Present

Project Sidewalk

2012 – Present

Deaf Travel Autoethnography

2018 – 2019

Deep Learning for Sidewalk Assessment

2016 – Present

Ondulé

2017 – 2019

UITalk

2019

PrototypAR

2017 – 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

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

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

Proceedings of CHI 2020 To Appear

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

Organizing Family Support Services at ACM Conferences

Communications of the ACM To Appear

Audrey Girouard, Jon E. Froehlich, Regan Mandryk, Mark Hancock

PDF | doi | Citation

Deep Learning for Automatically Detecting Sidewalk Accessibility Problems Using Streetscape Imagery

Proceedings of ASSETS 2019 | Best Paper Award

Galen Weld, Esther Jang, Anthony Li, Aileen Zeng, Kurtis Heimerl, Jon E. Froehlich

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

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Recent Talks

Autoethnography of a Hard of Hearing Traveler

Oct. 29, 2019 | ASSETS 2019

Pittsburgh, PA

PDF | PPTX | Deaf Travel Autoethnography

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

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

Design of an Augmented Reality Magnification Aid for Low Vision Users

Oct. 22, 2018 | ASSETS'18

Galway, Ireland

PDF | PPTX | Paper | HandSight | AR Magnification

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