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Join Project Sidewalk for Summer 2017

By Jon E. Froehlich • Apr 12, 2017
Jon and Tom at the CS department Sloan celebration

Froehlich Named Sloan Fellow

By Jon E. Froehlich • Feb 21, 2017
A child building an interactive wearable vest

MakerWear Honored with Best Paper at CHI2017

By Jon E. Froehlich • Feb 17, 2017
Google Faculty Award on GlassEar

Google Faculty Award on GlassEar

By Jon E. Froehlich • Feb 15, 2017
Working on a MakerWear wearable sleeve

NSF CAREER Award!

By Jon E. Froehlich • Feb 14, 2017
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Project Sidewalk Listed on Citizenscience.gov

By Jon E. Froehlich • Feb 09, 2017
Manaswi Saha presenting at the event

Project Sidewalk presents at WalkHackNight II

By Manaswi Saha • Feb 08, 2017
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Majeed Kazemitabaar visiting UC Berkeley

By Majeed Kazemitabaar • Feb 03, 2017
UMD Homepage Featuring Project Sidewalk

Project Sidewalk Featured on UMD Homepage

By Jon E. Froehlich • Jan 05, 2017
The Makeability Lab came together to collectively design and make a custom, laser-cut plaque for Kotaro in Japanese and English for a graduation gift.

Graduation Gift for Kotaro

By Jon E. Froehlich • Dec 22, 2016
Kotaro, Jon, and Ladan

Congrats Dr. Kotaro Hara and Ladan Najafizadeh, MS

By Jon E. Froehlich • Dec 21, 2016
Matt and his Phd committee

Congratulations to Matt Mauriello for Passing his PhD Proposal

By Jon E. Froehlich • Dec 16, 2016
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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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