The Makeability Lab's mission is to design, build, & study interactive tools and techniques to address pressing societal challenges. Join us!
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11 Nov 2024
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🚀 Excited to share that our paper “CapNav: Benchmarking Vision Language Models on Capability-conditioned Indoor Navigation” has been accepted to #CVPR2026 (main track)!
📄: arxiv.org/abs/2602.18424
💻GitHub: github.com/makeabilitylab/Ca…
🤗Hugging Face: huggingface.co/datasets/Rich…
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10 Nov 2025
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/
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20 Aug 2025
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.
youtu.be/wY_2vfDikkQ
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23 Apr 2025
📢 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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31 Oct 2024
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: doi.org/10.1145/3663548.3675…
ALT A certificate showing the ASSETS 2024 conference best paper award for: “Engaging with Children’s Artwork in Mixed Visual-Ability Families” by Arnavi Chheda-Kothary, Jacob O. Wobbrock, and Jon E. Froehlich. The certificate is signed by the General Chairs and Program Chairs of the conference.
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28 Oct 2024
Today, we kick off hashtag#ASSETS2024 in beautiful St. John's, Newfoundland. Would love to meet up with you if you're also here!
ALT Rainbow over St. John's harbor
ALT A look outward at the Atlantic Ocean from North Head Trail in St. John's
ALT The sun setting over St. John's harbor
ALT Rain clouds over St John's harbor
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28 Oct 2024
(2) A new dataset & benchmarks for classifying 33 sidewalk accessibility problems using deep learning: github.com/ProjectSidewalk/s…. This work was co-led by two @uwcse undergraduate students Xinlei Liu & Kevin Wu with mentorship from @hoominchu, @chimichurrichu & @cpencils.
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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/doi/10.1145/36635…
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25 Oct 2024
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/news/2024/10/…
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28 Oct 2024
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! makeabilitylab.cs.washington…
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24 Oct 2024
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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Makeability Lab retweeted
17 Oct 2024
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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17 Oct 2024
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
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Ever wondered how screen-reader users interact with dynamic geovisualizations? 🤔
Check out our latest @ieeevis short paper—AltGeoViz: Facilitating Accessible Geovisualization.🤗
Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2406.13853
Github: github.com/makeabilitylab/al…
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16 Oct 2024
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.
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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.
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Makeability Lab retweeted
14 Oct 2024
So excited for the #UIST2024 Demo Session tonight. Come check out @makeabilitylab demos spanning drones, AR, and mobile fabrication. A 🧵.
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11 Oct 2024
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
ALT A flyer showing thumbnails of the 11 papers and a QR code to the Makeability Lab website
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