Project Sidewalk Featured as 'Tweet of the Week' in UW Today
Published Sep 06, 2019
Project Sidewalk
Project Sidewalk was featured as the 'Tweet of the Week' in the UW Today email. Here's the tweet.
Published Sep 06, 2019
Project Sidewalk
Recent News from Jon
Oct 03, 2019 | Jon
Makeability Labbers Aileen Zeng and Manaswi Saha attended the Grace Hopper Conference--the largest gathering of women technologists in the world.
Around noon on Saturday Sept 22, Makeability Lab collaborator and UW CSE PhD student, Galen Weld, became the 76th person to summit the 100 highest mountains in Washington and the youngest person to do so! Congrats Galen!
Above, a picture of Galen on top of Buck Mountain in the Glacier Peak Wilderness--the final mountain in the list.
GIS enthusiast and map maker, Barbara Moreno, created an interactive visualization of Project Sidewalk data collected in Washington DC. Check out the news story and interactive tool here.
Aug 19, 2019 | Jon
Hiking, canoeing, kayaking, potluck picnicking, games, & fun. The Summer 2019 Makeability Lab retreat was a great success. As the summer ends, also an opportunity to thank and say goodbye to our wonderful high school and ugrad interns.
Recent News from Project Sidewalk
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.
GIS enthusiast and map maker, Barbara Moreno, created an interactive visualization of Project Sidewalk data collected in Washington DC. Check out the news story and interactive tool here.
Aug 09, 2019 | Jon
Makeability Lab PhD student, Manaswi Saha, has been accepted into the ASSETS'19 Doctoral Consortium where she will present and receive feedback on her doctoral work entitled "Interactive Tools for Assessing and Understanding Urban Accessibility At Scale". Congratulations Manaswi!
Aug 01, 2019 | Jon
Project Sidewalk featured in the August issue of the Seattle Met in an article entitled "Can Project Sidewalk Use Crowdsourcing to Help Seattleites Get Around?". The article describes Project Sidewalk and includes perspectives from pedestrian activist Douglas MacDonald (a former WA State Transportation Secretary) and Ross McFarland, the SDOT Sidewalk Repair Program Manager.
