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Project Sidewalk in the Local News!

Manaswi Saha

By Manaswi Saha

Apr 30, 2019

Screenshot of the Crosscut article showing the title along with a header image of two people walking on a sidewalk that's disheveled
With the recent Seattle and Newberg launch of Project Sidewalk, we have been getting a lot of media attention. Here are a few articles so far (many more to come!):

Newberg streets second in nation to be studied with new accessibility metric (The Newberg Graphic, April 2019)
Seattle's got terrible sidewalks. You can help fix them. (Crosscut, April 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.

Recent News

Jan. 26, 2026

Professor Sobti Presents "Towards Human-AI Accessibility Mapping in India" at AI4UP

Dec. 10, 2025

Project Sidewalk Awarded Mapillary Camera Grant

Dec. 08, 2025

Distinguished Lecture at UMN CRAY Colloquium

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