Daniel presents the recent work of the Makeability Lab at the Ability/LEAP Accessibility Research Night. Congrats to the successful talk! Here's a copy of the presentation.
Mar 03, 2023 | Xia
Chu and Xia just had a wonderful ski day with the great Allen School Community!
MLab members Jae, Xia, Andrew, Arvind, Davin and Jun just had a fun trip to T-mobile's Tech Experience Center! Here are some pictures: (This guy is not caged into this glass box)
Feb 02, 2023 | Xia
Daniel Campos Zamora ran a design workshop for the HuskyADAPT design teams! HuskyADAPT (Accessible Design And Play Technology) forms student teams collaborating with community co-designers who have disabilities, and work together for quarters to brainstorm a solution and then prototype a design. Thank you Daniel for your contribution to the accessibility community! And congrats to the successful workshop!
Dec 14, 2022 | Xia
Huge congrats on Chu's successful presentation of Project Sidewalk at Intelligent Transportation Systems Washington 2022! A huge step for Project Sidewalk to go beyond the HCI community!
Jan 11, 2023 | Jon
We were honored and delighted to give a talk on SciStarter in honor of MLK Jr.'s Day of Service. You can view the slides here.
In the words of Dr. King:
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere
These words still resonate today as we continue to attempt to address systemic inequities in human mobility and transit access—for which Project Sidewalk is but one small movement forward.
SciStarter is a platform for community science featuring over 1,000 research projects, including Project Sidewalk. If you join SciStarter, you can get credit for using Project Sidewalk—just make sure you're using the same email addresses on both platforms.
Dec 16, 2022 | Jon
Huge news: Michael Duan was selected as a Finalist for the extremely competitive CRA Undergraduate Research Award based on his work on Scaling Crowd+AI Sidewalk Accessibility Assessments and Sidewalk Gallery.
This is the first time in the Makeability Lab's history that one of our ugrads earned such a distinction. Congratulations Michael on this well-deserved recognition. The Allen School should be producing a story about this soon.
See the full list of awardees here.
Dec 14, 2022 | Xia
Huge congrats on Chu's successful presentation of Project Sidewalk at Intelligent Transportation Systems Washington 2022! A huge step for Project Sidewalk to go beyond the HCI community!
At the 2022 PacTrans Region 10 Transportation Conference, Professor Froehlich received the PacTrans Outstanding Researcher Award for "outstanding research with significant outcomes, incorporating meaningful student contributions, and robust community service/leadership involvement."
Professor Froehlich said "this is really a collective award recognizing the work of PhD students Manaswi Saha, Chu Li, research scientist Michael Saugstad, and our collaborators and partners across the world, including UIC's Institute on Disability and Human Development, WorldEnabled.org, Liga Peatonal, and Gemeente Amsterdam."
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Mar 04, 2023 | Jon
Congrats to Chu Li for presenting our work on Project Sidewalk and sidewalk equity for the World Information Architecture Day in Seattle. Pictures below courtesy of Zhihan Zhang.
Xia Su presented his recent work on the RASSAR project at the annual CSE Industry Affiliates Research Day.
Interestingly, the session of the presentation is hosted by Jon! Such a nice collab between the wonderful Makability Lab members!
Congrats to the team!
The great Makeability Lab members presented 2 posters at the CSE Industry Affiliates Research Day. Daniel Campos Zamora presented our work on sPrintr, while Jaewook Lee presented RemoteLab. Huge congrats to their work!
