MakerWear Honored with Best Paper at CHI2017

Jon E. Froehlich

By Jon E. Froehlich

Feb 17, 2017

A child building an interactive wearable vest

We were just notified that MakerWear received the Best Paper award at CHI2017 (top 1% of all submissions at CHI). The conference received over 2400 submissions and 24 were chosen for Best paper (97 were chosen for Honorable Mention). Congrats to lead student Majeed Kazemitibaar and the whole MakerWear team!

This is the first full research publication from Froehlich's NSF CAREER award.

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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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