Manaswi Saha

PhD Student, CSE
University of Washington

Recent News

Manaswi Keynote Speaker at WSRO Conference

Sep 30, 2019 | Manaswi

Makeability Lab member Manaswi Saha was an invited keynote speaker to the Washingtion State Ridesharing Organization (WSRO) conference. She gave a talk on Project Sidewalk entitled Project Sidewalk: Mapping the accessibility of the physical world at scale using interactive computational tools. Congrats Manaswi and thanks for representing the Project Sidewalk team.

Project Sidewalk in the Local News!

Apr 30, 2019 | Manaswi

With the recent Seattle and Newberg launch of Project Sidewalk, we have been getting a lot of media attention. Here are a few articles so far (many more to come!): Newberg streets second in nation to be studied with new accessibility metric (The Newberg Graphic, April 2019) Seattle's got terrible sidewalks. You can help fix them. (Crosscut, April 2019)

Project Sidewalk presents at WalkHackNight II

Feb 08, 2017 | Manaswi

Transportation Techies DC had hosted their second WalkHackNight in Crystal City. Project Sidewalk team was honored to be invited to give a talk at this event. It is the second time for Project Sidewalk to be presenting at this event.

Project Sidewalk featured in the local news!

Nov 17, 2016 | Manaswi

Project Sidewalk was covered by a DC TV station, WUSA9. Check out the video coverage and the news report now! This is exciting!

Accessibility Research Team at the Diversity in Computing Summit

Nov 08, 2016 | Manaswi

We were honored to participate in the inaugural Diversity in Computing Summit. Makeability Lab and Inclusive Design Lab members presented a joint session on their accessibility research. The session, entitled "Interactive Computational Tools for Accessibility," covered work on Project Sidewalk (by Manaswi Saha), Temporal Tracking of Accessibility Features in Cities (by Ladan Najafizadeh) , Health and Fitness for the Mobility Impaired (by Meethu Malu), Accessible On-body Interaction for the Visually Impaired (by Uran Oh) and HandSight (by Lee Stearns). Talk slides are available here.

Projects

Accessibility-Infused Maps

2016 – Present

Project Sidewalk

2012 – Present

Pervasive Thermography

2014 – 2019

AccessVis

2018 – Present

Publications

The Future of Urban Accessibility for People with Disabilities: Data Collection, Analytics, Policy, and Tools

Jon E. Froehlich, Yochai Eisenberg, Maryam Hosseini, Fabio Miranda, Marc Adams, Anat Caspi, Holger Dieterich, Heather Feldner, Aldo Gonzalez, Claudina de Gyves, Joy Hammel, Reuben Kirkham, Melanie Kneisel, Delphine Labbé, Stephen J. Mooney, Victor Pineda, Cláudia Pinhão, Ana Rodríguez, Manaswi Saha, Mikey Saugstad, Judy L. Shanley, Ather Sharif, Qing Shen, Claudio Silva, Maarten Sukel, Eric K. Tokuda, Sebastian Felix Zappe, Anna Zivarts

Extended Abstract ASSETS'22 Workshop on The Future of Urban Accessibility

keywords: accessible urban navigation, urban informatics, urban accessibility, sidewalks, sidewalk accessibility, urban visualization

PDF | doi | Citation | Project Sidewalk • Urban Accessibility Evolution • Deep Learning for Sidewalk Assessment • Accessibility-Infused Maps

Designing Interactive Data-Driven Tools for Understanding Urban Accessibility at Scale

Manaswi Saha

UW CS PhD Dissertation

keywords: sidewalks, sidewalk assessment, sidewalk accessibility, sidewalk problems, sidewalk visualization, urban accessibility, urban visualization

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

Visualizing Urban Accessibility: Investigating Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives through a Map-based Design Probe Study

Manaswi Saha, Siddhant Patil, Emily Cho, Evie Yu-Yen Cheng, Chris Horng, Devanshi Chauhan, Rachel Kangas, Richard McGovern, Anthony Li, Jeffrey Heer, Jon E. Froehlich

Proceedings of CHI 2022 | Acceptance Rate: 24.7% (637 / 2579)

keywords: design probes, urban accessibility, geo-visualization, sidewalk accessibility, urban visualization, sensemaking, sidewalk visualization

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

The Future of Global-Scale Spatial Data Collection and Analyses on Urban (in)Accessibility for People with Disabilities

Jon E. Froehlich, Fabio Miranda, Maryam Hosseini, Nicholas Bolten, Anat Caspi, Roberto M. Cesar Jr., Holger Dieterich, Yochai Eisenberg, Victor Pineda, Manaswi Saha, Mikey Saugstad, Andres Sevtsuk, Cláudio T. Silva, Eric K. Tokuda, Sebastian Felix Zappe

Extended Abstract Spatial Data Science Symposium 2021

keywords: accessibility, accessible urban navigation, wheelchair, urban informatics, urban accessibility, human mobility

PDF | Citation | Project Sidewalk • Urban Accessibility Evolution • Deep Learning for Sidewalk Assessment • AccessVis • Accessibility-Infused Maps • Sidewalk Gallery

Urban Accessibility as a Socio-Political Problem: A Multi-Stakeholder Analysis

Manaswi Saha, Devanshi Chauhan, Siddhant Patil, Rachel Kangas, Jeffrey Heer, Jon E. Froehlich

CSCW 2020

keywords: urban informatics, urban accessibility, sidewalk assessment, sidewalk accessibility, policy, civic tech, socio-political challenges, disability rights

PDF | doi | Citation | Project Sidewalk

Towards Mapping and Assessing Sidewalk Accessibility Across Socio-cultural and Geographic Contexts

Jon E. Froehlich, Mikey Saugstad, Manaswi Saha, Matthew Johnson

Extended Abstract Data4Good

keywords: urban informatics, urban accessibility, sidewalks, Mexico, sidewalk assessment, sidewalk accessibility, policy, disability rights

PDF | doi | Citation | Project Sidewalk

Interactive Computational Tools for Assessing and Understanding Urban Accessibility At Scale

Manaswi Saha

SIGACCESS Newsletter 2020

keywords: accessibility, crowdsourcing accessibility, accessible cities, physical world accessibility, street-level accessibility, accessibility map visualizations, crowd-powered streetview accessibility, urban accessibility

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