Feb. 1, 2022. ASSETS'22 Website Live!

Dec. 13, 2021. Spatial Data Science Symposium: Future of Global-Scale Data Collection and Analysis on Urban (in)Accessibility for People with Disabilities

Oct. 29, 2021. Café Meetup on Portage Bay

Oct. 14, 2021. CSCW'21 Honorable Mention and Diversity and Inclusion Award

Sept. 29, 2021. Makeability Lab Welcomes Four New Members

Recent Projects

Project Sidewalk

2012 – Present

AccessVis

2018 – Present

Accessibility-Infused Maps

2016 – Present

ProtoSound

2020 – Present

ModElec

2019 – 2021

Urban Accessibility Evolution

2015 – Present

Deep Learning for Sidewalk Assessment

2016 – Present

Sidewalk Gallery

2019 – Present

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Recent Papers

SIG: Towards More Personal Health Sensing

Proceedings of CHI 2022

Junyi Zhu, Liang He, Jun Nishida, Hamid Ghaednia, Hsin-Liu Kao, Jon E. Froehlich, Edward Wang, Stefanie Mueller

ProtoSound: A Personalized and Scalable Sound Recognition System for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Users

Proceedings of CHI 2022

Dhruv Jain, Khoa Nguyen, Steven Goodman, Rachel Grossman-Kahn, Hung Ngo, Aditya Kusupati, Ruofei Du, Alex Olwal, Leah Findlater, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | doi | Citation | ProtoSound

Visualizing Urban Accessibility: Investigating Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives through a Map-based Design Probe Study

Proceedings of CHI 2022

Manaswi Saha, Siddhant Patil, Emily Cho, Evie Yu-Yen Cheng, Chris Horng, Devanshi Chauhan, Rachel Kangas, Richard McGovern, Anthony Li, Jeffrey Heer, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | doi | Citation | Project Sidewalk • AccessVis • Accessibility-Infused Maps

ModElec: A Design Tool for Prototyping Physical Computing Devices Using Conductive 3D Printing

IMWUT

Liang He, Jarrid Wittkopf, Ji Won Jun, Kris Erickson, Tico Ballagas

PDF | doi | Citation | Code | ModElec

The Future of Global-Scale Spatial Data Collection and Analyses on Urban (in)Accessibility for People with Disabilities

Spatial Data Science Symposium 2021

Jon E. Froehlich, Fabio Miranda, Maryam Hosseini, Nicholas Bolten, Anat Caspi, Roberto M. Cesar Jr., Holger Dieterich, Yochai Eisenberg, Victor Pineda, Manaswi Saha, Mikey Saugstad, Andres Sevtsuk, Cláudio T. Silva, Eric K. Tokuda, Sebastian Felix Zappe

PDF | Citation | Project Sidewalk • Urban Accessibility Evolution • Deep Learning for Sidewalk Assessment • AccessVis • Accessibility-Infused Maps • Sidewalk Gallery

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

CSCW Proceedings of PACM HCI | Honorable Mention

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

PDF | doi | Citation

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Recent Videos

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

YouTube | Paper | Urban Accessibility Evolution

Sidewalk Gallery: An Interactive, Filterable Image Gallery of Sidewalk Accessibility Problems

YouTube | Paper | Sidewalk Gallery

Toward Sound Recognizer Personalization with d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users

YouTube | Personalizing Sound Recognition

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Recent Talks

Crowd + AI Tools for Scalable Sidewalk Assessment

Dec. 13, 2021 | Spatial Data Science Symposium 2021

Virtual

Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | PPTX | Accessibility-Infused Maps | Project Sidewalk | AccessVis

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

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

May 10, 2020 | CHI 2020

Virtual

PDF | PPTX | SoundWatch

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