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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
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
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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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July 01, 2026

McDevitt Middle School Earns State Recognition for Urban Accessibility Effort with Project Sidewalk

June 13, 2026

Makeability Lab End-of-Year Celebration

June 12, 2026

Hooding PhD Student Xia Su!

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