Manaswi Saha
PhD Student, CS
University of Washington
Recent News
Feb 08, 2017 | Manaswi
Transportation Techies DC had hosted their second WalkHackNight in Crystal City. Project Sidewalk team was honored to be invited to give a talk at this event. It is the second time for Project Sidewalk to be presenting at this event.
Nov 17, 2016 | Manaswi
Project Sidewalk was covered by a DC TV station, WUSA9. Check out the video coverage and the news report now! This is exciting!
We were honored to participate in the inaugural Diversity in Computing Summit. Makeability Lab and Inclusive Design Lab members presented a joint session on their accessibility research. The session, entitled "Interactive Computational Tools for Accessibility," covered work on Project Sidewalk (by Manaswi Saha), Temporal Tracking of Accessibility Features in Cities (by Ladan Najafizadeh) , Health and Fitness for the Mobility Impaired (by Meethu Malu), Accessible On-body Interaction for the Visually Impaired (by Uran Oh) and HandSight (by Lee Stearns). Talk slides are available here.
Apr 07, 2016 | Manaswi
I am excited to announce that I will be spending my summer at Adobe Research in San Jose, CA. I will be working in the area of Internet of Things (IoT) in the BigData Experience Lab. Broadly, the project will look into mobility, how it relates to IoT and how can IoT be used to create seamless consumer experiences. Looking forward to an exciting summer playing with IoT gadgets in sunny California! Fun!
Mar 01, 2016 | Manaswi
I have been awarded ACM-W Scholarship for attending ACM CHI 2016 in May! It’s a brilliant scholarship for women in CS when they are starting out in their research career. It gives an excellent platform for young women researchers to attend the conference, network with top researchers even if they don’t have a paper. Finally, the icing on the cake is that we get a mentor for the conference who is a rockstar in our field of interest. My mentor for the conference will be Prof. Yvonne Rogers (UCL)! So excited! :D
Publications
Project Sidewalk: A Web-based Crowdsourcing Tool for Collecting Sidewalk Accessibility Data at Scale
Proceedings of CHI 2019 To Appear | Acceptance Rate: 23.8% (705 / 2960)
Interactively Modeling and Visualizing Neighborhood Accessibility at Scale: An Initial Study of Washington DC
Extended Abstract Proceedings of ASSETS 2018
PDF | Citation | Project Sidewalk | AccessScore | Accessibility-Infused Maps
A Pilot Deployment of an Online Tool for Large-Scale Virtual Auditing of Urban Accessibility
Extended Abstract Proceedings of ASSETS 2017
Exploring Novice Approaches to Smartphone-based Thermographic Energy Auditing: A Field Study
Proceedings of CHI 2017 | Acceptance Rate: 25.0% (606 / 2424)
The Future Role of Thermography in Human-Building Interaction
CHI 2016 Workshop: Future of Human-Building Interaction
Talks
May 25, 2017 | HCIL Symposium 2017
College Park, Maryland
Feb. 8, 2017 | WalkHackNight II
Arlington, Virginia
Nov. 7, 2016 | Diversity in Computing Summit 2016
College Park, Maryland
Nov. 3, 2016 | Technica: Tech+X Talk Series
University of Maryland, College Park
