Jaewook Lee

PhD Student, Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering

University of Washington

Jaewook Lee is currently a PhD Student in the Makeability Lab. Jaewook has been in the lab for 3.9 years. They contributed to 6 projects, including ARTennis, CookAR, and EARLL: Embodied AR Language Learning, as well as 11 publications. During their time in the lab, Jaewook mentored 29 Makeability Lab students, including Amogh Dhumal, Jiho Kim, and Leejun Kim.

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Projects (6/6)

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 EARLL: Embodied AR Language Learning

EARLL: Embodied AR Language Learning

2023 – Present

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

An image of Jae wearing the HoloLens 1 and pointing to a bag of chips in a grocery aisle asking "What is this?"

GazePointAR

2022 – 2024

Tennis ball is covered by a red dot and surrounded by four green arrows forming a crosshair.

ARTennis

2023 – Present

This is the thumbnail image for the project RASSAR

RASSAR

2022 – 2024

Papers (6/11)

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

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

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

Workshop Proceedings of IDEATExR 2025

PDF arXiv Cite SonoCraftAR

Thumbnail for: ImaginateAR: AI-Assisted In-Situ Authoring in Augmented Reality

ImaginateAR: AI-Assisted In-Situ Authoring in Augmented Reality

Jaewook Lee, Jon E. Froehlich, Filippo Aleotti, Diego Mazala, Guillermo Garcia-Hernando, Sara Vicente, Oliver James Johnston, Isabel Kraus-Liang, Jakub Powierza, Donghoon Shin, Gabriel Brostow, Jessica Van Brummelen

Proceedings of UIST 2025 | Acceptance Rate: 22.2% (210 / 947)

PDF arXiv doi Cite Talk ImaginatAR

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

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

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

Workshop Proceedings of IDEATExR 2024 | Best Paper Award

Thumbnail for: Embodied AR Language Learning Through Everyday Object Interactions: A Demonstration of EARLL

Embodied AR Language Learning Through Everyday Object Interactions: A Demonstration of EARLL

Jaewook Lee, Sieun Kim, Minji Park, Catherine Rasgaitis, Jon E. Froehlich

Demo Proceedings of UIST 2024

PDF doi Cite EARLL: Embodied AR Language Learning

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

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

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

Proceedings of UIST 2024 | Acceptance Rate: 24.0% (146 / 608) | Best Paper Award

PDF arXiv doi Cite Talk CookAR

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

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

Jaewook Lee, Jun Wang, Elizabeth Brown, Liam Gene Ping Chu, Sebastian S. Rodriguez, Jon E. Froehlich

Proceedings of CHI 2024 | Acceptance Rate: 26.3% (1060 / 4028)

PDF arXiv doi Cite GazePointAR

Videos (2/2)

ImaginateAR: AI-Assisted In-Situ Authoring in Augmented Reality

YouTube Paper ImaginatAR Sep 29, 2025

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

YouTube Paper Oct 21, 2024

Talks (4/4)

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

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

Oct 08, 2025 | IDEATExR

Daejeon, South Korea

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

PDF PPTX SonoCraftAR

Slide preview for: ImaginateAR: AI-Assisted In-Situ Authoring in Augmented Reality

ImaginateAR: AI-Assisted In-Situ Authoring in Augmented Reality

Sep 28, 2025 | UIST

Busan, Korea

PDF PPTX Paper ImaginatAR

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

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

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

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

May 15, 2024 | CHI

Honolulu, Hawaiʻi

PDF PPTX GazePointAR