Quick Info
Project Date
Jan. 15, 2018 - Present
PIs:
Leah Findlater (PI)
Sponsors:
NSF
News

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
Exploring Sound Awareness in the Home for People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
Proceedings of CHI 2019 | Acceptance Rate: 23.7% (701 / 2960)
Current Project Members

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


Dhruv Jain
Sep 2018 - Present
PhD Student
Computer Science
University of Washington
AR Captioning | Deaf Travel Autoethnography | Smarthome Sound Awareness