Quick Info
Project Date
Jan. 15, 2018 - Present
PIs:
Leah Findlater (PI)
Jon E. Froehlich (Co-PI)
Sponsors:
NSF
Keywords:
accessibility,
deaf,
deaf and hard of hearing,
smarthome
News

Dec 11, 2020 | Jon
It's my pleasure to announce that Dhruv Jain passed his General Exam entitled Sound Sensing & Feedback Techniques for d/Deaf & Hard of Hearing Users: A Dissertation Proposal. His dissertation work was thoughtfully presented, well rehearsed, and even included two live demos (of HomeSound and of SoundWatch). Congrats DJ! Thanks also to the wonderful committee, including co-chair Professor Findlater and fellow committee members Professors Mankoff, Ladner, Wobbrock, and Bigham—literally an all-star cast of HCI+accessibility experts. You can download the slides here or watch the whole thing on YouTube! A few screenshots of the talk (all but the presenter + interpreters had video off):

Dec 09, 2019 | Jon
The Makeability Lab had four papers accepted to CHI this year. The acceptance rate was 24% (760 accepts of 3126 submissions). Congrats to the lead PhD students: Steven Goodman (HCDE), Dhruv Jain (CSE), Seokbin Kang (CS), Wendy Roldan (HCDE), and all our wonderful collaborators. Goodman, S., Kirchner, S., Guttman, R., Jain, D., Froehlich, J., Findlater, L. Evaluating Smartwatch-based Sound Feedback for Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Users Across Contexts, CHI2020 Jain D., Mack., K., Amrous, A., Wright, M., Goodman, S., Findlater, L., Froehlich, J. HomeSound: An Iterative Field Deployment of an In-Home Sound Awareness System for Deaf or Hard of Hearing Users, CHI2020 Kang, S., Shokeen, E., Byrne, V., Norooz, L., Bonsignore, E., Williams-Pierce, C., Froehlich, J. ARMath: Augmenting Everyday Life with Math Learning, CHI2020 Roldan, W., Gao, X., Marie, A., Hishikawa, T, Li, Z., Zhang, E., Froehlich, J., Yip, J. Opportunities and Challenges in Involving Users in Project-Based HCI Education, CHI2020 We plan to post the camera-ready versions of the papers and some videos in January!

Nov 20, 2019 | Jon
HomeSound won the People's Choice Award and the Madrona Prize Runner-Up at the Allen School Annual Research Showcase. GeekWire has a nice write-up about the event and awards. Congrats team!
About

Smarthome sound awareness prototype
One of the three smarthome sound awareness prototypes we explored via a wizard-of-oz study
Publications
Talks
Dec. 11, 2020 | UW General exam
Virtual
Nov. 13, 2019 | UW Qualifying exams
University of Washington
May 10, 2019 | CHI 2019
Glasgow, UK
Current Project Members

Leah Findlater
May 2018 - Present
Associate Professor
HCDE
University of Washington
HandSight | Touchscreen Accessibility | SoundWatch


Dhruv Jain
Sep 2018 - Present
PhD Student
Computer Science
University of Washington
SoundWatch | AR Captioning | HomeSound

Kelly Mack
Aug 2019 - Present
PhD Student
Computer Science
University of Washington
Accessibility Literature Survey | HomeSound
Past Project Members

Aileen Zeng
Jul 2018 - Sep 2018
Undergrad
Computer Science
University of Washington
Project Sidewalk | Deep Learning for Sidewalk Assessment | HomeSound