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Screenshot of the front page of our proposal showing the title and three figures of rendering sound feedback in an AR display

UW Reality Lab Funding for Moving Beyond Speech Transcription in AR

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Apr 03, 2020

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DJ Featured in "I am CSE" Series

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Mar 16, 2020

Liang He Awarded GPSS Travel Grant to Attend CHI!

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Mar 03, 2020

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Project Sidewalk Columbus, OH Deployment in the News

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Feb 07, 2020

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Makeability Lab Video Game Night!

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Jan 31, 2020

Project Tokyo uses an adapted HoloLens and real-time computer vision to recognize people's faces. This image shows a blind person wearing the HoloLens (augmented reality head-mounted display) and looking at a nearby person's face.

Project Tokyo: Using AI to Help Blind People Identify Faces

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Jan 28, 2020

Five lab members standing in front of Din Tai Fung

Happy Chinese New Year!

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Jan 27, 2020

Google Tech Talk title slide showing a picture of someone in a wheelchair with the talk title on top

Manaswi Gives Google Tech Talk on Project Sidewalk

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Jan 22, 2020

Four Papers Accepted to CHI2020!

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Dec 09, 2019

Playing Codenames

Makeability Lab Thanksgiving!

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Nov 30, 2019

HomeSound lead graduate student Dhruv Jain standing with Professor Ed Lazowska

HomeSound Wins People's Choice Award

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Nov 20, 2019

Galen Weld and Jon Froehlich holding the awards

Deep Learning for Sidewalk Accessibility Awarded 'Best Student Paper' at ASSETS'19

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Oct 29, 2019

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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.