Mikey Saugstad

Mikey Saugstad

Research Scientist, Computer Science

University of Washington

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Mikey Saugstad is currently a Research Scientist in the Makeability Lab. Mikey has been in the lab for 8.0 years and contributed to 4 projects, including LabelAId, Project Sidewalk + Community Science, Sidewalk Gallery, and as well as 17 publications. During their time in the lab, Mikey mentored 70 Makeability Lab students, including Aileen Zeng, Parik Kukreja, and Andrew Guterman.

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Projects

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LabelAId

2023 – 2024

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Project Sidewalk + Community Science

2021 – Present

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Sidewalk Gallery

2019 – 2021

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Project Sidewalk

2012 – Present

Recent Papers

Towards Fine-Grained Sidewalk Accessibility Assessment with Deep Learning: Initial Benchmarks and an Open Dataset

ASSETS 2024

Alex Liu, Kevin Wu, Minchu Kulkarni, Mikey Saugstad, Peyton Rapo, Jeremy Freiburger, Maryam Hosseini, Chu Li, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | doi | Citation | Deep Learning for Sidewalk Assessment • Project Sidewalk

“I never realized sidewalks were a big deal”: A Case Study of a Community-Driven Sidewalk Audit Using Project Sidewalk

CHI 2024

Chu Li, Katrina Ma, Mikey Saugstad, Kie Fujii, Molly Delany, Yochai Eisenberg, Delphine Labbé, Judy L. Shanley, Devon Snyder, Florian P. Thomas, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | doi | Citation | Project Sidewalk + Community Science • Project Sidewalk

LabelAId: Just-in-time AI Interventions for Improving Human Labeling Quality and Domain Knowledge in Crowdsourcing Systems

CHI 2024

Chu Li, Zhihan Zhang, Mikey Saugstad, Esteban Safranchik, Minchu Kulkarni, Xiaoyu Huang, Shwetak Patel, Vikram Iyer, Tim Althoff, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | doi | Citation | LabelAId • Project Sidewalk

Videos

BusStopCV: A Real-time AI Assistant for Labeling Bus Stop Features in Streetscape Imagery

YouTube | Paper • 1 year ago

Experimental Crowd+AI Approaches to Track Accessibility Features in Sidewalk Intersections Over Time

YouTube | Paper • 3 years ago

Sidewalk Gallery: An Interactive, Filterable Image Gallery of Sidewalk Accessibility Problems

YouTube | Paper • 3 years ago

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.