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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

Venkatesh showing our UITalk poster at ASSETS'19

Venkatesh Presents UITalk Poster

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Oct 29, 2019

Image showing an opening slide at ASSETS'19 with Jeff Bigham visible on the stage

Two ASSETS'19 Papers Nominated for Best Paper

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Oct 28, 2019

Poster setup at the National MS Society luncheon

Aileen Zeng Presents Project Sidewalk at National MS Society Luncheon

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Oct 23, 2019

Liang He giving talk at UIST'19 on Ondule

Liang He Gives UIST'19 Talk on Ondulé

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Oct 22, 2019

Aileen and Manaswi at Grace Hopper

Makeability Labbers at Grace Hopper

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Oct 03, 2019

Manaswi giving the keynote

Manaswi Keynote Speaker at WSRO Conference

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Sep 30, 2019

Galen Weld on top of Buck Mountain, the final climb out of the 100 highest mountains in Washington. Galen is holding a champagne bottle spraying champagne!

ML Collaborator Galen Weld Summits 100 Highest Mounts in Washington

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Sep 22, 2019

A screenshot showing a top-down map of Barbara Moreno's Project Sidewalk visualization tool

Barbara Moreno Makes Interactive Visualization of Project Sidewalk Data

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Sep 10, 2019

Screen capture of a tweet that says: "Yikes, an impenetrable double pole obstacle! Help us find and validate sidewalk accessibility barriers like these using your web browser"

Project Sidewalk Featured as 'Tweet of the Week' in UW Today

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Sep 06, 2019

Picture of the Summer 2019 Makeability Lab Retreat attendees

Makeability Lab Summer 2019 Retreat!

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Aug 19, 2019

A grid of urban accessibility visualizations

Manaswi Saha Accepted into ASSETS'19 Doctoral Consortium

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Aug 09, 2019

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