Makeability Lab
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The Makeability Lab's mission is to design, build, & study interactive tools and techniques to address pressing societal challenges. Join us!
Seattle, WA
Joined May 2013
We are recruiting new PhD students this year in: 🌆 Urban Computing / GeoAI: Building accessible, intelligent cities 🥽 AR: Enhancing human capabilities 🎨 Creativity Support Tools: AI-powered imagination systems Deadline: Dec 15, 2025 More:
jonfroehlich.github.io
Professor Froehlich’s academic webpage.
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I have had the incredible privilege to sabbatical at Google Research. What have I been up to? Attempting to make Street View accessible to all! 🌍✨ StreetViewAI is a new, accessible street view prototype using context-aware AI & voice interaction. https://t.co/VwpK2YKJe7
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📢 Huge milestone reached! Project Sidewalk now has over **ONE MILLION** sidewalk accessibility labels (1,163,413 labels to be exact) across 21,368 km of city streets. 🎉🥳🎈🎊
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Excited, honored, and humbled to receive the #ASSETS24 Best Paper award for our work, “Engaging with Children’s Artwork in Mixed Visual-Ability Families”! Huge shoutout to my wonderful advisors, @wobbrockjo and @jonfroehlich. Check out the full paper at: https://t.co/AL4gyUVpiF
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(3) Daniel Campos Zamora research with @liang_fab_akira on how digital fabrication technologies such as 3D printing, CNC milling, vacuum forming, and heat transfer melting can enable the production of custom tactile surface indicators (TSIs):
dl.acm.org
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(2) A new dataset & benchmarks for classifying 33 sidewalk accessibility problems using deep learning: https://t.co/2fPyOsfjps. This work was co-led by two @uwcse undergraduate students Xinlei Liu & Kevin Wu with mentorship from @hoominchu, @chimichurrichu & @cpencils.
github.com
Training code for classification and prediction of Project Sidewalk tags and severity levels. - ProjectSidewalk/sidewalk-tagger-ai
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Then we will be presenting three posters: (1) @XiaSu09's research on RAIS, a robotic mapping and assessment tool for indoor accessibility using commodity hardware:
makeabilitylab.cs.washington.edu
We introduce RAIS (Robotic Accessibility Indoor Scanner), a robotic-based indoor mapping and accessibility assessment system.
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This afternoon in the Creativity Session (Session 1A), PhD student @arnavic will be presenting our "Best Paper Nominated" work on examining how blind and low-vision families engage with their children's artwork: https://t.co/EiYuLjP76y. This is joint work with @wobbrockjo.
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Today, we kick off hashtag#ASSETS2024 in beautiful St. John's, Newfoundland. Would love to meet up with you if you're also here!
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Can your robot vacuum do this? Researchers in @UW @uwengineering #UWAllen’s @makeabilitylab adapted one to create MobiPrint, a 3D printer on wheels that maps a room and prints objects on location, on demand based on a user's needs. #UWinnovates #NSFfunded
washington.edu
University of Washington researchers created MobiPrint, a mobile 3D printer that can automatically measure a room and print objects onto the floor. The team’s graphic interface lets users design...
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Congrats to Makeability Lab PhD student @jaewook_jae & collaborators on our Best Paper Award for ARSports at the ISMAR'24 workshop IDEATExR. Jae is on a roll, coming off a "Best Paper Inclusion Award" at UIST'24 two weeks ago!
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Thrilled to be heading to #ASSETS24 to present “Engaging with Children’s Artwork in Mixed Visual-Ability Settings”, done with my wonderful collaborators and advisors @wobbrockjo and @jonfroehlich! I will be presenting on Mon, Oct 28 as a part of Session 1A: Creativity 🖼️🎨 (1/7)
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For the last decade+, my group has developed new interactive tools to advance understanding of the accessibility of the physical world for people with disabilities—projects like AccessScore, AccessVis, and Sidewalk Equity.
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Excited to present this work at VIS'24!🙌 Join me tomorrow (Oct 17th) at 12pm EST in the "Analytics and Applications" session to learn how screen-reader users can interact with dynamic geovisualizations.🤓 @ieeevis #Accessibility #Visualization
Ever wondered how screen-reader users interact with dynamic geovisualizations? 🤔 Check out our latest @ieeevis short paper—AltGeoViz: Facilitating Accessible Geovisualization.🤗 Preprint: https://t.co/nsxbaIE5F3 Github: https://t.co/RKdLEBUyN8
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And then PhD student @jaewook_jae will present our joint work w/Prof @YuhangZhao1 & @YapengTian on the award-winning CookAR, head-mounted AR with real-time object affordance augmentations for kitchen tools. Talk is: 3:35-4:35PM in Allegheny 2. https://t.co/CrBLf31ybY
makeabilitylab.cs.washington.edu
Drawing on recent advancements in computer vision (CV), we present CookAR, a head-mounted AR system with real-time object affordance augmentations to support safe and efficient interactions with...
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On this last day of #UIST2024, PhD student @XiaSu09 will be presenting our joint work w/Chang Xiao and Eunyee Koh at Adobe Research on SonifyAR, which uses LLMs to generate contextual sound effects in AR environments. Talk is 2-3:15PM in Allegheny 2. https://t.co/NuJXkWehlS
makeabilitylab.cs.washington.edu
SonifyAR is a custom AR sound authoring pipeline that generates context-matching sounds for AR events in situ using generative AI.
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So excited for the #UIST2024 Demo Session tonight. Come check out @makeabilitylab demos spanning drones, AR, and mobile fabrication. A 🧵.
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An exciting Oct: 11 papers, posters, & demos at UIST, ASSETS, & VIS! 🎉 Congrats to our students & collaborators. Special rec to Jae Lee for a Best Paper Inclusion Award at UIST’24, Arnavi Chedda-Kothary for a Best Paper Nom at ASSETS’24, & Chu Li for our lab's 1st ever VIS paper
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Huge Congrats @Daniel_C_Z!
Congratulations to @UW @uwengineering #UWAllen @makeabilitylab Ph.D. student @Daniel_C_Z, who received First Prize in the @TheOfficialACM Graduate Student Research Competition at the @cmdit #TAPIA2024 Celebration of Diversity in Computing for MoiréWidgets! #HuskyExperience 1/2
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