Quick Info
Project Date
Sept. 1, 2016 - Present
Sponsors:
NSF
Keywords:
accessibility,
accessible cities,
information visualization,
physical world accessibility,
accessibility map visualizations
News

Jan 22, 2020 | Jon
Manaswi Saha gave an invited Google Tech Talk on Project Sidewalk and interactive accessibility geo-visualizations. The talk slides are here.

Sep 30, 2019 | Manaswi
Makeability Lab member Manaswi Saha was an invited keynote speaker to the Washingtion State Ridesharing Organization (WSRO) conference. She gave a talk on Project Sidewalk entitled Project Sidewalk: Mapping the accessibility of the physical world at scale using interactive computational tools. Congrats Manaswi and thanks for representing the Project Sidewalk team.

Aug 09, 2019 | Jon
Makeability Lab PhD student, Manaswi Saha, has been accepted into the ASSETS'19 Doctoral Consortium where she will present and receive feedback on her doctoral work entitled "Interactive Tools for Assessing and Understanding Urban Accessibility At Scale". Congratulations Manaswi!
About

A screenshot of one of our AccessScore prototype visualizations
Our interactive visualizations of city accessibility are intended to address questions like "is this region accessible?" and "why does this neighborhood have poor accessibility?"
Publications
Interactive Computational Tools for Assessing and Understanding Urban Accessibility At Scale
SIGACCESS Newsletter 2020
PDF | Citation • Project Sidewalk • AccessVis • Accessibility-Infused Maps
Interactively Modeling and Visualizing Neighborhood Accessibility at Scale: An Initial Study of Washington DC
Extended Abstract Proceedings of ASSETS 2018
PDF | doi | Citation • Project Sidewalk • Accessibility-Infused Maps • AccessVis
Talks
Jan. 22, 2020 | Google Tech Talk
Seattle, WA
PDF | PPTX | Project Sidewalk | Deep Learning for Sidewalk Assessment | AccessVis | Accessibility-Infused Maps | Urban Accessibility Evolution | Transportation Analytics
Current Project Members



Manaswi Saha
Sep 2016 - Present
PhD Student
Computer Science and Engineering
University of Washington
Project Sidewalk | Accessibility-Infused Maps | AccessVis
Past Project Members

Anthony Li
Mar 2018 - Jul 2019
Undergrad
Computer Science
University of Maryland
Project Sidewalk | Deep Learning for Sidewalk Assessment | Accessibility-Infused Maps