Emma McDonnell

Emma McDonnell

PhD Student, HCDE
University of Washington
Emma McDonnell is currently a collaborator with the Makeability Lab. Emma has collaborated with the lab for 5.8 years and contributed to as well as 7 publications.
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Recent Papers

SPECTRA: Personalizable Sound Recognition for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users through Interactive Machine Learning

CHI 2025

Steven Goodman, Emma McDonnell, Jon E. Froehlich, Leah Findlater

PDF | doi | Citation | SPECTRA

“Caption It in an Accessible Way That Is Also Enjoyable”: Characterizing User-Driven Captioning Practices on TikTok

CHI 2024

Emma McDonnell, Tessa Eagle, Pitch Sinlapanuntakul, Soo Hyun Moon, Kathryn Ringland, Jon E. Froehlich, Leah Findlater

PDF | doi | Citation

“Easier or Harder, Depending on Who the Hearing Person Is”: Codesigning Videoconferencing Tools for Small Groups with Mixed Hearing Status

CHI 2023

Emma McDonnell, Soo Hyun Moon, Lucy Jiang, Steven Goodman, Raja Kushalnagar, Jon E. Froehlich, Leah Findlater

PDF | doi | Citation

Videos

SPECTRA: Personalizable Sound Recognition for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users through Interactive Machine Learning

YouTube | Paper | SPECTRA

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

YouTube | Paper

We design, build, and evaluate new interactive tools and techniques to address pressing societal challenges. Makeability refers both to how our technological innovations make new abilities possible for humans as well as our educational mission to help students gain new abilities as they learn and grow through research, invention, and human-centered design.

Recent News

May 23, 2025

Makeability Lab at the Post-CHI Miraikan Accessibility Networking Event

May 16, 2025

CFP: ICCV Workshop on GenAI for Accessibility

April 23, 2025

Arnavi Passes Quals!

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