Jaewook Lee

Jaewook Lee

PhD Student, Computer Science

University of Washington

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Jaewook Lee is currently a PhD Student in the Makeability Lab. Jaewook has been in the lab for 3.0 years and contributed to 6 projects, including CookAR, EARLL: Embodied AR Language Learning, SonoCraftAR, as well as 10 publications. During their time in the lab, Jaewook mentored 25 Makeability Lab students, including Tony Zhou, XunMei Liu, and Jun Wang.

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Recent Projects

An example CookAR assistive vision overlay showing the graspable handle of the knife, the hazardous blade, and the intersection area with the target object

CookAR

2023 – Present

This is the thumbnail image for the project EARLL: Embodied AR Language Learning

EARLL: Embodied AR Language Learning

2023 – Present

SonoCraftAR teaser figuer showing a DHH user describing their desired sound-reactive AR interface; LLM agents generating UI and animation code, and then redering a personalized AR interface that reacts to sound

SonoCraftAR

2025 – Present

This is the thumbnail image for the project RASSAR

RASSAR

2022 – Present

Recent Papers

SonoCraftAR: Towards Supporting Personalized Authoring of Sound-Reactive AR Interfaces by Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users

IDEATExR 2025 To Appear

Jaewook Lee, Davin Win Kyi, Leejun Kim, Jenny Peng, Gagyeom Lim, Jeremy Zhengqi Huang, Dhruv Jain, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | Citation | SonoCraftAR

Towards AI-Powered AR for Enhancing Sports Playability for People with Low Vision: An Exploration of ARSports

IDEATExR 2024 | Best Paper Award

Jaewook Lee, Yang Li, Dylan Bunarto, Eujean Lee, Jaden Wang, Adrian Rodriguez, Yuhang Zhao, Yapeng Tian, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | doi | Citation

CookAR: Affordance Augmentations in Wearable AR to Support Kitchen Tool Interactions for People with Low Vision

UIST 2024 | Best Paper Award

Jaewook Lee, Andrew D. Tjahjadi, Jiho Kim, Junpu Yu, Minji Park, Jon E. Froehlich, Yapeng Tian, Yuhang Zhao

PDF | doi | Citation | Talk | CookAR

Videos

Towards AI-Powered AR for Enhancing Sports Playability for People with Low Vision: An Exploration of ARSports

YouTube | Paper

Talks

CookAR: Affordance Augmentations in Wearable AR to Support Kitchen Tool Interactions for People with Low Vision

Oct. 13, 2024 | UIST

Pittsburgh, PA

PDF | PPTX Paper | CookAR

GazePointAR: A Context-Aware Multimodal Voice Assistant for Pronoun Disambiguation in Wearable Augmented Reality

May 15, 2024 | CHI

Honolulu, Hawaiʻi

PDF | PPTX | GazePointAR

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.