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A picture of the CMD-IT logo, which has a starburst-like shape colored sequentially in red, blue, green, and yellow along with text that says: "CMD-IT: Fostering Innovation Through Inclusion"

Dhruv Jain Selected for Google-CMD-IT LEAP Alliance Fellowship

By Jon E. Froehlich • Aug 05, 2021
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Liang He Receives Bob Bandes Memorial Honorable Mention Teaching Award

By Jon E. Froehlich • Jun 14, 2021
A picture of a cat using a laptop and visiting the Makeability Lab Physical Computing teaching website

Froehlich Selected for Outstanding Faculty Award

By Jon E. Froehlich • Jun 07, 2021
A picture of Manaswi Saha's General Exam showing a slide that reads "People and Infrastructure Problem: Socio-political Environmental Analysis" and states a research question: "How do stakeholders assess urban accessibility and how do they make decisions?"

Manaswi Saha Passes General Exam

By Jon E. Froehlich • May 28, 2021
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Dhruv Jain Receives Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant

By Jon E. Froehlich • May 24, 2021
A screenshot of Skribbl.io, a drawing + guessing game. The image shows a person drawing an object with a mouse and four video feeds of the game players.

Virtual Lab Hangout with Skribbl.io!

By Jon E. Froehlich • Jan 21, 2021
An image showing a Zoom screenshot of Liang's title slide (with the title and Liang's affiliation) along with a sidebar of Zoom attendees

Liang He Passes General Exam

By Jon E. Froehlich • Dec 18, 2020
DJ holding an Android watch running SoundWatch that shows Speech has been recognized (at 64 dB). The alert can be snoozed for 10 minutes

Dhruv Jain Passes General Exam

By Jon E. Froehlich • Dec 11, 2020
A screenshot of the opening slide of Seokbin Kang's PhD defense showing a picture of PrototypAR and some of the committee members

Announcing Dr. Seokbin Kang

By Jon E. Froehlich • Nov 10, 2020
Image shows a person wearing an Android smartwatch with the SoundWatch user interface, which shows a "Car Honk" recognized sound with 98% accuracy and 101 decibels.

SoundWatch Wins Best Artifact Award at ASSETS

By Jon E. Froehlich • Oct 29, 2020
A picture of Manaswi Saha showing her standing in front of tree with a yellow shirt

Manaswi Saha Honored with Google PhD Fellowship

By Jon E. Froehlich • Oct 07, 2020
A picture of a sidewalk and street scene showing six different zones related to sidewalks (and non-motorized traffic)

CSCW2020 Paper on "Urban Accessibility as a Socio-Political Problem" Accepted!

By Jon E. Froehlich • Aug 04, 2020
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Makeability Lab

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.

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Dec. 10, 2025

Project Sidewalk Awarded Mapillary Camera Grant

Dec. 08, 2025

Distinguished Lecture at UMN CRAY Colloquium

Nov. 13, 2025

Goodbye to Yotam

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University of Washington