Makeability Lab
@makeabilitylab
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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📢 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. 🎉🥳🎈🎊
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/10.1145/366354…
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/2024/10/2…
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.edu/media/publicat…
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)
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.
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: arxiv.org/pdf/2406.13853 Github: github.com/makeabilitylab…
So excited for the #UIST2024 Demo Session tonight. Come check out @makeabilitylab demos spanning drones, AR, and mobile fabrication. A 🧵.
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
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
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
Woohoo! 🚀
I am ecstatic to announce that I am starting my PhD in CS at the UW Allen School @uwcse. I'll be working with the @makeabilitylab and @jonfroehlich making cities more sustainable, accessible, and equitable. I'm incredibly grateful for this opportunity and excited to get to work!