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The CHI2020 logo showing a Hawaiian flower and the text 'CHI2020'

Liang He Awarded GPSS Travel Grant to Attend CHI!

By Jon E. Froehlich • Mar 03, 2020
Project Sidewalk Columbus, OH Deployment in the News

Project Sidewalk Columbus, OH Deployment in the News

By Jon E. Froehlich • Feb 07, 2020
Makeability Lab Video Game Night!

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
The CHI2020 logo

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
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
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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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