Kotaro Hara

Kotaro Hara

PhD Student, Computer Science

University of Maryland

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Kotaro Hara was a PhD Student in the Makeability Lab for 4.9 years (Mar 2012 to Dec 2016). Kotaro contributed to 3 projects, including Accessibility-Infused Maps, Project Sidewalk, and Multi-Stakeholder Interviews to Examine Urban Accessibility. as well as 14 publications. During their time in the lab, Kotaro mentored 8 Makeability Lab students, including Daniil Zadorozhnyy, Christine Chan, and Victoria Le.

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Projects

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Accessibility-Infused Maps

2016 – Present

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Project Sidewalk

2012 – Present

An image of Manaswi Saha conducting an in-person study session with a wheelchair user

Multi-Stakeholder Interviews to Examine Urban Accessibility

2015 – Present

Recent Papers

Project Sidewalk: A Web-based Crowdsourcing Tool for Collecting Sidewalk Accessibility Data at Scale

CHI 2019 | Best Paper Award

Manaswi Saha, Mikey Saugstad, Teja Maddali, Aileen Zeng, Ryan Holland, Steven Bower, Aditya Dash, Sage Chen, Anthony Li, Kotaro Hara, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | doi | Citation | Code | Project Sidewalk

Grand challenges in accessible maps

Interactions 2019

Jon E. Froehlich, Anke Brock, Anat Caspi, Joao Guerreiro, Kotaro Hara, Reuben Kirkham, Johannes Schoning, Benjamin Tannert

PDF | doi | Citation | Project Sidewalk • Accessibility-Infused Maps

A Pilot Deployment of an Online Tool for Large-Scale Virtual Auditing of Urban Accessibility

ASSETS 2017

Manaswi Saha, Kotaro Hara, Soheil Behnezhad, Anthony Li, Mikey Saugstad, Teja Maddali, Sage Chen, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | doi | Citation | Project Sidewalk

Talks

Characterizing Physical World Accessibility at Scale

Nov. 3, 2016 | GroupSight @ HCOMP2016

Austin, Texas

PDF | Project Sidewalk

Improving Public Transit Accessibility for Blind Riders by Crowdsourcing Bus Stop Landmark Locations with Google Street View

Oct. 1, 2013 | Proceedings of ASSETS 2013

Bellevue, Washington

PDF | PPTX Paper | Crowdsourcing Bus Stop Landmarks

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.