April 18, 2019. UW News Covers Project Sidewalk

April 17, 2019. Aileen Zeng Presents at Women's Research Day

March 26, 2019. High Schoolers Visit the Makeability Lab

March 19, 2019. Augmented Reality STEM Projects Funded by UW Reality Lab

March 15, 2019. Two Best Paper Awards at CHI'19

Recent Projects

PrototypAR

AR Captioning

GlassEar

Project Sidewalk

Pervasive Thermography

Smarthome Sound Awareness

Accessibility-Infused Maps

HandSight

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Recent Videos

Design of an Augmented Reality Magnification Aid for Low Vision Users

YouTube | Paper | HandSight

Prototyping and Simulating Complex Systems with Paper Craft and Augmented Reality: An Initial Investigation

YouTube | Paper | PrototypAR

Designing 3D-Printed Deformation Behaviors Using Spring-Based Structures: An Initial Investigation

YouTube | Paper | Ondulé

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Recent Papers

PrototypAR: Prototyping and Simulating Complex Systems with Paper Craft and Augmented Reality

Proceedings of IDC 2019 To Appear | None

Seokbin Kang, Leyla Norooz, Elizabeth Bonsignore, Virginia Byrne, Tamara L. Clegg, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | Citation | PrototypAR

Social Tensions with Head-Mounted Displays for Accessibility

CHI'19 Workshop Proceedings of SHMD '19 To Appear | None

Steven Goodman, Dhruv Jain, Jon E. Froehlich, Brock Craft, Leah Findlater

PDF | Citation | AR Captioning | GlassEar

Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Individuals’ Preferences for Wearable and Mobile Sound Awareness Technologies

Proceedings of CHI 2019 To Appear | None

Leah Findlater, Bonnie Chinh, Dhruv Jain, Jon E. Froehlich, Raja Kushalnagar, Angela Carey Lin

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

Proceedings of CHI 2019 To Appear | Best Paper Award

Manaswi Saha, Mikey Saugstad, Teja Maddali, Aileen Zeng, Ryan Holland, Steven Bower, Aditya Dash, Sage Chen, Anthony Li, Kotaro Hara, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | Citation | Project Sidewalk

Anchored Audio Sampling: A Seamless Method for Exploring Children's Thoughts During Deployment Studies

Proceedings of CHI 2019 To Appear | Best Paper Award

Alexis Hiniker, Jon E. Froehlich, Mingrui Zhang, Erin Beneteau

PDF | Citation | Anchored Audio Sampling

Exploring Sound Awareness in the Home for People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

Proceedings of CHI 2019 To Appear | None

Dhruv Jain, Angela Carey Lin, Marcus Amalachandran, Aileen Zeng, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | Citation | Smarthome Sound Awareness

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Recent Talks

Design of an Augmented Reality Magnification Aid for Low Vision Users

Oct. 22, 2018 | ASSETS'18

Galway, Ireland

PDF | PPTX | Paper | HandSight | AR Magnification

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

HCI + Computational Fabrication

Oct. 16, 2018 | CSE510 Advanced Topics in HCI Guest Lecture

University of Washington, Seattle

Jon E. Froehlich

A Rapid Tour of My Explorations in E-Textiles

Oct. 9, 2018 | HCDE539: Physical Computing and Prototyping Guest Lecture

University of Washington, Seattle

Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | PPTX | BodyVis | Social Fabric Fitness | MakerWear | I Like This Shirt

Project Sidewalk: Mapping the Accessibility of the World through Google Street View

Oct. 9, 2018 | Change Seminar

University of Washington, Seattle

Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | PPTX | Project Sidewalk | Accessibility-Infused Maps

Touchcam: Realtime Recognition of Location-specific On-body Gestures to Support Users With Visual Impairments

Oct. 8, 2018 | UbiComp 2018

Singapore

PDF | PPTX | HandSight | TouchCam | On-Body Interaction

A Large-Scale Analysis of YouTube Videos Depicting Everyday Thermal Camera Use

Sept. 5, 2018 | MobileHCI 2018

Barcelona, Spain

Matthew L Mauriello

PDF | PPTX | SlideShare | Paper | Pervasive Thermography

Designing and Evaluating Next-Generation Thermographic Systems to Support Residential Energy Audits

Aug. 1, 2018 | PhD Defense, Computer Science

University of Maryland, College Park

Matthew L Mauriello

PDF | PPTX | Paper | Pervasive Thermography

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