Sept. 30, 2022. ASSETS'22 T-Shirt Packing!

Sept. 16, 2022. Kickoff BBQ!

Aug. 17, 2022. Makeability Lab Collaborator Maryam Hosseini Defends Her PhD Dissertation

Aug. 10, 2022. Dhruv Jain Accepts Professorship at Michigan

July 17, 2022. Deform Lab extends the Makeability Lab

Recent Projects

Project Sidewalk

2012 – Present

Deep Learning for Sidewalk Assessment

2016 – Present

Urban Accessibility Evolution

2015 – Present

Accessibility-Infused Maps

2016 – Present

SoundWatch

2018 – Present

AccessVis

2018 – Present

ProtoSound

2020 – Present

ModElec

2019 – 2021

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Recent Papers

Kinergy: Creating 3D Printable Motion using Embedded Kinetic Energy

Proceedings of UIST 2022 To Appear

Liang He, Xia Su, Huaishu Peng, Jeffrey I. Lipton, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | Citation |

Scaling Crowd+AI Sidewalk Accessibility Assessments: Initial Experiments Examining Label Quality and Cross-city Training on Performance

Poster Proceedings of ASSETS'22 To Appear

Michael Duan, Sho Kiami, Logan Milandin, Johnson Kuang, Mikey Saugstad, Maryam Hosseini, Jon E. Froehlich

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

The Future of Urban Accessibility for People with Disabilities: Data Collection, Analytics, Policy, and Tools

ASSETS'22 Workshop on The Future of Urban Accessibility To Appear

Jon E. Froehlich, Yochai Eisenberg, Maryam Hosseini, Fabio Miranda, Marc Adams, Anat Caspi, Holger Dieterich, Heather Feldner, Aldo Gonzalez, Claudina de Gyves, Joy Hammel, Reuben Kirkham, Melanie Kneisel, Delphine Labbé, Stephen J. Mooney, Victor Pineda, Cláudia Pinhão, Ana Rodríguez, Manaswi Saha, Mikey Saugstad, Judy L. Shanley, Ather Sharif, Qing Shen, Claudio Silva, Maarten Sukel, Eric K. Tokuda, Sebastian Felix Zappe, Anna Zivarts

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

Towards Semi-automatic Detection and Localization of Indoor Accessibility Issues using Mobile Depth Scanning and Computer Vision

UrbanAccess 2022 To Appear

Xia Su, Kaiming Cheng, Han Zhang, Jaewook Lee, Yueqian Zhang, Jon E. Froehlich

A Pilot Study of Sidewalk Equity in Seattle Using Crowdsourced Sidewalk Assessment Data

UrbanAccess 2022 To Appear

Chu Li, Lisa Orii, Mikey Saugstad, Stephen J. Mooney, Yochai Eisenberg, Delphine Labbé, Joy Hammel, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | Citation | Project Sidewalk

Participatory Design of Crowd+AI Tools to Map, Analyze, and Visualize Sidewalk Accessibility

Proceedings of TRANSED 2022

Yochai Eisenberg, Delphine Labbé, Sierra Berquist, Judy L. Shanley, Joy Hammel, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | Citation | Project Sidewalk

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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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