Dhruv Jain

PhD Student, CS
University of Washington

I am a second year PhD student in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. I work in accessibility and augmented & virtual reality with my advisers Jon Froehlich and Leah Findlater. Before coming to UW, I completed my Masters from MIT Media Lab and bachelors from IIT Delhi. In 2016-2017, I also did a one year backpacking tour, visiting 23 countries and earning my scuba instructor certificate. Check out our recent autoethnography research paper on my experiences as a hard of hearing traveler. Finally, I was a Google Lime Scholar in 2015-16.

Recent News

AR captioning wins the People's Choice Award in Allen School Annual Research Day

Nov 02, 2018 | Dhruv

We're proud to announce that UW PhD Student and Makeability Lab Member Dhruv Jain's poster titled "Exploring Augmented Reality Approaches to Real-Time Captioning: An Autoethnographic Study" won the people's choice award in UW Allen School Annual Research Day yesterday! This is part of our larger research agenda on AR Captions Dhruv shares this award with HCDE student Bonnie Chinh, HCDE professor Leah Findlater, Gallaudet University Professor Raja Kushalnagar and CSE professor Jon Froehlich. Read the GeekWire new story here.

Makeability Lab goes to Ireland for ASSETS!

Oct 29, 2018 | Dhruv

We had a strong representation at ASSETS 2018 in Galway, Ireland- we presented three posters and two full papers. In pictures, see Dhruv Jain presenting his paper on Augmented Reality Captioning in Mobile Context, Lee Stearns presenting "Design of an Augmented Reality Magnification Aid for Low Vision Users" and Jon Froehlich with his poster "How does Urban Accessibility Change over Time"

Two Papers and Three Posters at ASSETS’18!

Jul 13, 2018 | Dhruv

We’re going to Galway, Ireland! The Makeability Lab has two full papers and three posters at ASSETS’18. UMD PhD student Lee Stearns led a project entitled Design of an Augmented Reality Magnification Aid for Low Vision Users and explores augmented reality solutions for magnifying text for low-vision users. Lee also had a poster paper accepted entitled Applying Transfer Learning to Recognize Clothing Patterns Using a Finger-Mounted Camera. Both projects are in collaboration with UW HCDE professor Leah Findlater. UW CSE PhD student Dhruv Jain led a project entitled Towards Accessible Conversations in a Mobile Context for People Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing and examines real-time captioning solutions for people who are DHH and on-the-move. This work is a collaboration among UW CSE (Dhruv Jain, Jon Froehlich), UW HCDE (Rachel Franz, Leah Findlater) and Gallaudet University in DC (Raja Kushalnagar). The Project Sidewalk team also got two posters in: A Feasibility Study of Using Google Street View and Computer Vision to Track the Evolution of Urban Accessibility , which was based on Ladan Najafizdeh's MS thesis work and Interactively Modeling and Visualizing Neighborhood Accessibility at Scale: An Initial Study of Washington DC , which was led by undergrad extraordinaire Anthony Li along with Manaswi Saha).

Travel award for Tapia Celebration

Jun 26, 2018 | Dhruv

Makeability lab member Dhruv Jain receives travel award from UW Paul G Allen School of Computer Science to attend Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing in September 2018. The Tapia conference is the premier venue to acknowledge, promote and celebrate diversity in computing. Congratulations Dhruv!

Poster at ACM DIS 2018!

Jun 09, 2018 | Dhruv

Our CSE PhD Student Dhruv Jain presented a poster at ACM DIS 2018 in Hong Kong! The poster is entitled Exploring Augmented Reality Approaches to Real-Time Captioning: A Preliminary Autoethnographic Study and examines Dhruv’s experiences with using real-time captioning on HoloLens in lectures and group meetings. This work is a collaboration among UW CSE (Dhruv Jain, Jon Froehlich), UW HCDE (Bonnie Chinh, Leah Findlater) and Gallaudet University (Raja Kushalnagar).