June 14, 2021. Liang He Receives Bob Bandes Memorial Honorable Mention Teaching Award

June 7, 2021. Froehlich Selected for Outstanding Faculty Award

May 28, 2021. Manaswi Saha Passes General Exam

May 24, 2021. Dhruv Jain Receives Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant

Jan. 21, 2021. Virtual Lab Hangout with Skribbl.io!

Recent Projects

Project Sidewalk

2012 – Present

Urban Accessibility Evolution

– Present

Accessibility-Infused Maps

2016 – Present

SoundWatch

2018 – Present

Personalizing Sound Recognition

2019 – Present

HoloSound

2020 – Present

HomeSound

2018 – Present

ARMath

2018 – 2020

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Recent Papers

Social, Environmental, and Technical: Factors at Play in the Current Use and Future Design of Small-Group Captioning

CSCW Proceedings of PACM HCI To Appear

Emma McDonnell, Ping Liu, Steven Goodman, Raja Kushalnagar, Jon E. Froehlich, Leah Findlater

Sidewalk Gallery: An Interactive, Filterable Image Gallery of Over 500,000 Sidewalk Accessibility Problems

Proceedings of ASSETS 2021 To Appear

Michael Duan, Aroosh Kumar, Mikey Saugstad, Aileen Zeng, Ilia Savin, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | Citation • Project Sidewalk • Accessibility-Infused Maps

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

Proceedings of ASSETS 2021 To Appear

Ather Sharif, Paari Gopal, Mikey Saugstad, Shiven Bhatt, Raymond Fok, Galen Weld, Kavi Dey, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | Citation • Project Sidewalk • Urban Accessibility Evolution

A Preliminary Analysis of Android Educational Game Accessibility

Proceedings of ASSETS 2021 To Appear

Jesse Martinez, James Fogarty, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | Citation • Touchscreen Accessibility

A Taxonomy of Sounds in Virtual Reality

Proceeedings of DIS 2021 | Best Paper Award

Dhruv Jain, Sasa Junuzovic, Swetha Machanavajhala, Meredith Ringel Morris, Eyal Ofek, John Porter, Mike Sinclair, Chris Yoon

PDF | doi | Citation

Pedagogical Strategies for Reflection in Project-based HCI Education with End Users

Proceedings of DIS 2021 | Honorable Mention

Wendy Roldan, Ziyue Li, Xin Gao, Sarah Kay Strickler, Allison Marie Hishikawa, Jon E. Froehlich, Jason Yip

PDF | doi | Citation

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Recent Videos

A Taxonomy of Sounds in Virtual Reality

Sound Sensing and Feedback Techniques for d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users

SoundWatch: Exploring Smartwatch-based Deep Learning Approaches to Support Sound Awareness for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users

YouTube | SoundWatch

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Recent Talks

A Taxonomy of Sounds in Virtual Reality

June 29, 2021 | DIS 2021

Virtual

A Taxonomy of Sounds in Virtual Reality

June 29, 2021 | DIS 2021

Virtual

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

Sound Sensing and Feedback Techniques for d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users

Dec. 11, 2020 | UW General exam

Virtual

PDF | PPTX | Video | HoloSound | HomeSound | SoundWatch

SoundWatch: Exploring Smartwatch-based Deep Learning Approaches to Support Sound Awareness for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users

Oct. 28, 2020 | ASSETS 2020

Virtual

PDF | PPTX | SoundWatch

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