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Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Wow! Our research on developing a context-sensitive bike routing tool 🚴🏽, called Bike Butler, was featured by the Seattle Times today: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news....

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UW doctoral and Issaquah high school students team up on Seattle bike map

Amid Seattle's frenzy of bikeway building, the creators of Bike Butler set out to train AI to think like a bicycling human.

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Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Please consider donating to the amazing UW Allen School! A great opportunity to support our fantastic students, including our undergraduate scholarship fund, student success fund, and our graduate student fellowship fund.

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Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Attending CHI'26 in Barcelona? Come to my SIGCHI Societal Impact Award talk entitled "'You Don't Do HCI' — Stories of Persistence, Pushback, & Pursuit" on Tues, Apr 14 at 4:30PM in the Auditorium.

A screenshot of my SIGCHI Societal Impact Award talk title slide with mountains in the background and a big, bold yellow title stating "You don't do HCI" - Stories of Persistence, Pushback, & Pursuit.

After the title is my name and affiliation followed by lab logos and UW

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Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Had Gemini 3.1 Pro fill out my 🏀 NCAA bracket this morning based purely on "CS Grad School Rankings" 🤣 CC @markriedl.bsky.social

A screenshot of the upper-half of the NCAA tourney bracket filled out based on CS rankings

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Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Can you sink a hole-in-one? ⛳ Join us Mon, March 16 for MHCI+D's first-ever interactive mini-golf extravaganza! 🏌🏽‍♀️🎉 Students in my Prototyping Studio designed & built a fully playable 12-hole course from scratch. Come play & vote for your favorites! (Flyer designed by Peggy Shen)

A Prototyping Studio advertising flyer for the mini-golf showcase with a graphic of a golf holf and a large golf ball with the time and date information

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Makeability Lab @makeabilitylab.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Happy Valentine's Day from the Makeability Lab. Sending 💕during this time of tumultuousness. Take care of yourself and those around you.

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SciStarter @scistarter.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Honor Dr. King’s legacy by helping create cities that work for everyone with Project Sidewalk. Using Google Street View, volunteers spot and label sidewalk accessibility issues, like missing curb ramps or obstructions, from anywhere in the world. 👉 Get started: scistarter.org/project-side...

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jonathan zong @jonathanzong.com · 04/09/2025

Interested in accessibility, visualization, or data ethics? I'm looking for Ph.D. students to join @data-and-design.org at CU Boulder Info Sci in Fall 2026. data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd

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Recruiting Ph.D. Students for Fall 2026

We are an interdisciplinary research group at the University of Colorado Boulder that uses design to understand and reimagine socio-technical systems.

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Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

I am recruiting new PhD students this year in: 🌆 Urban Computing / GeoAI 🥽 Augmented Reality 🎨 Creativity Support Tools Why join us? Work on state-of-the-art Human-AI research that has real-world impact at one of the top CS programs in the world. Deadline: Dec 15 See: jonfroehlich.github.io

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Jon E. Froehlich

Professor Froehlich’s academic webpage.

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Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

📢🚨Folks, you can only submit 25 papers this year to CVPR (25 submissions per author cap). So, please plan accordingly.

A screenshot of the OpenReview.net form that says "Submission Cap Confirmed" and "I understand that if I submit more than 25 papers, any submissions beyond the twenty-fifth will be desk rejected"

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Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Join us at the UW Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. We are hiring tenure-track faculty positions. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174303

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Katharina Reinecke @katharinareinecke.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

I’m thrilled to start my little book tour at the place where I wrote a good chunk of the book! 📚☕️👩‍💻

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Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The CHI video 🎥 deadline is Sept 18th. To help, check out our lab's "How to Video" guide: docs.google.com/presentation... We'd love to feature more videos, especially 30 sec previews. Don't be shy in promoting your own work! 🍿

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Makeability Lab - How to Videos

How to Videos makeabilitylab.cs.uw.edu Thanks to Professor Liang He for recommending some examples

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Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Who is this guy? And what's he doing in Google Street View?! www.google.com/maps/@47.648...

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Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

With the CHI deadline fast approaching, I'm resharing our lab's resource on making figures for HCI papers: docs.google.com/presentation... New content suggestions always appreciated. Don't be shy to promote your own work!

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Makeability Lab - How to Figures

How to figures makeabilitylab.cs.uw.edu

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Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I have had the incredible privilege to spend my 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, real-time AI & voice interaction. youtu.be/wY_2vfDikkQ

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StreetViewAI: Making Street View Accessible Using Context-Aware Multimodal AI (30-Sec Preview)

YouTube video by Jon E. Froehlich

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Project Sidewalk @projectsidewalk.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

We're launching RampNet, an open-source AI that helps detect curb ramps with near-human accuracy. The most amazing part? The entire project was conceived of and led by high school student John O'Meara. 🧵 A thread on what we built and why it matters.

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Danyel Fisher @danyelf.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

A friend posted a photo, sunbathing from Scandanavia a little bit ago, captioned "60 degrees at 60 degrees!" That made me wonder how often that really happens -- where on earth is the temperature the same as the latitude, and how often? I answered that at danyel.github.io/degree-degree

A screenshot of a visualization showing a globe; a purple streak runs across the northern Atlantic ocean and diffuses into a darker purple across Asia. A control panel on the left would allow the user to explore the map further.

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Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

📢 Breaking news: we have extended the Extended Abstract deadline for our ICCV AI+Accessibility workshop to Aug 6th. You've got this 💪🏽! Send in those submissions: cv4a11y.github.io/ICCV2025/ind...

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Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

This saddens me deeply. I have greatly benefited from working w/extraordinary international students; they have brought me & my lab incredible energy, ideas, & helped create some of the most gratifying & important breakthroughs in my career. They are in fear. Not OK! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...

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Trump Administration Live Updates: U.S. Suspends Visa Interviews for Foreign Students

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Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

📢 We are delighted to announce our ICCV 2025 workshop on "Vision Foundation Models and Generative AI for Accessibility: Challenges & Opportunities"! Two submission tracks: extended abstracts and full papers—the latter published in the ICCV workshop proceedings. cv4a11y.github.io/ICCV2025/ind...

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Vision Foundation Models and Generative AI for Accessibility Workshop

CV4A11y, ICCV 2025 Workshop

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Jun-Yan Zhu @junyanz.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

[1/2] We've released the code for LegoGPT. Our autoregressive model generates physically stable and buildable designs from text prompts by integrating physics laws and assembly constraints into LLM training and inference. Code: github.com/AvaLovelace1... Website: avalovelace1.github.io/LegoGPT/

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Project Sidewalk @projectsidewalk.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

One map fits all? 🤔 Unfortunately, no! Our #CHI2025 study reveals significant differences in how cane, walker, scooter & wheelchair users perceive sidewalk barriers. Dataset & paper: makeabilitylab.cs.washington.edu/project/acce... This is work led by the amazing @chimichurrichu.bsky.social

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Accessibility for Whom?

We present a large-scale online survey exploring how five mobility groups—users of canes, walkers, mobility scooters, manual wheelchairs, and motorized wheelchairs—perceive sidewalk barriers and diffe...

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Makeability Lab @makeabilitylab.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

#CHI2015 in Japan is here! The Makeability Lab has 3 full papers and 1 late-breaking work spanning research on urban accessibility & urban sensing, sound rec, & creative design tools using depth estimation. Congrats Chu, Daniel, & Xia! See: makeabilitylab.cs.washington.edu/news/four-pa...

Thumbnails of our four papers at CHI with logos from CHI, the Makeability Lab, DUB, and the Allen School

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Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

📢 HUGE NEWS! Project Sidewalk just crossed 1.1 MILLION manual sidewalk accessibility annotations across 21,000+ km of streets! 🎉 (1,163,413 labels to be exact!). To celebrate and help others build on our work, we have posted a sidewalk feature/barrier dataset to @hf.co huggingface.co/projectsidew...

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

If any journalists are writing about the recent NSF cancellations, I can give you a good example of a grant that was framed as AI workforce development (and is not about misinformation) that seems as if it was cancelled due to a control-F for the word misinformation.

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Martin Wattenberg @wattenberg.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

The wind map at hint.fm/wind/ has been running since 2012, relying on weather data from NOAA. We added a notice like this today. Thanks to @cambecc.bsky.social for the inspiration.

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UW News @uwnews.uw.edu · 20/02/2025

Danli Luo & @uw-hcde.bsky.social developed a system to turn used coffee grounds into a paste for 3D printing objects such as packing materials and a vase. The paste is inoculated with mushroom spores making it a fully compostable alternative to plastic. More: www.washington.edu/news/2025/02...

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

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STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

March 7, 2025. Washington DC and nationwide. Because science is for everyone.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Seattle folks: I'm giving a (free) public lecture Feb 24, where I'll explain what our team's decade of research on online rumors & disinformation reveals about the once-alternative media ecosystem that is driving the rise of right wing populism around the world. www.washington.edu/facultystaff...

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2025 University Faculty Lecture

A Spotlight on Rumors: Illuminating How Influence and Improvisation Shape Online Conversations

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Writing is thinking. It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.

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Andrew Head @andrewhead.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

It's great to come on to Bluesky and see so many old friends here. A good first post may be to remind everyone that Penn's PhD application deadline this is Dec. 16. We at Penn HCI are recruiting this year! Myself in the areas of HCI/PL and augmented reading. We welcome your application!

Locust Walk, our campus's main 6-block-long promenade under a leafy canopy. This could be the path you walk to the office every day!

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Jared Hwang @jaredhwang.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

⚠️ We're recruiting participants for a research study! We'd like to understand how people use disability parking. Fill out this screener if you fit the criteria, and we may reach out to interview you. 🔗 tinyurl.com/uw-parking-screener 💸 $25/hr compensation

Flyer soliciting research participants. It says: "Call for study participants. Criteria: 18 years or older, lives in the US, eligible to use disability parking. Study details: ~1 hour Zoom interview, $25 per hour compensation. Help us improve disability parking by sharing your experiences! Interested? Fill out this screening form tinyurl.com/uw-parking-screener. For questions, email jaredhwa@cs.uw.edu."

At the bottom of the flyer are the logos for the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, styled as a large W with text to the side, and the Makeability Lab, styled as a large M with the text Makeability Lab underneath.

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Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Amazing postdoc opportunity at UMich working with my former student Professor @djain.bsky.social in the Soundability Lab! They are also recruiting PhD students. See below.

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Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

What is $131,742? Answer: this is how much it costs me to fund a PhD student per year for a full RAship in CS at UW (including 100% during the summer). PhD funding can be a confusing topic at US universities. Want to learn more? Take a look at our lab handbook: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Makeability Lab Handbook

Makeability Lab Handbook By Professor Jon Froehlich and lab membersAllen School of Computer Science and EngineeringUniversity of Washington Welcome to the Makeability Lab! 👋 We are so happfy that y...

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Kevin Feng @kjfeng.me · 24/11/2024

Interested in HCI? Go follow some fantastic folks from UW @uofwa.bsky.social—home to one of the largest HCI communities in the world! go.bsky.app/43Txz76

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Jeffrey Heer @jheer.org · 21/11/2024

Mosaic v0.12 is out: database-powered scalable, interactive visualization! 📈 One new addition is support for dynamic changes in the backing data. Move between smaller and larger samples to balance speed and comprehensive coverage.

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Ayman @shamur.ai · 18/11/2024

CHI 2026 Barcelona Open Call for volunteers is Open! Please sign up to join the team! This is for organizing and technical committees (excluding subcommittee chairs and area chairs for the papers program…that comes later). Details in the submission form. www.surveymonkey.com/r/GGPYYPD

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CHI 2026 Open Call for Volunteers

Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.

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Nels Numan @nels.dev · 18/11/2024

As this platform grows, I thought I'd share a starter pack of #XR + #HCI researchers I've come across! This includes individuals exploring augmented reality, virtual reality, mixed reality, and related areas. Let me know if you would like to be added or have any recommendations! #VR #AR #MR

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Daniel Shiffman @shiffman.lol · 17/11/2024

So far this seems like a nice place with nice people. Here's a 25% off code for Nature of Code: BSKY For the US, you can order direct at natureofcode.com International: github.com/nature-of-co...

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Bright pink spine of Nature of Code Book

Shot of Nature of Code book interiou: Randomness chapter

Shot of nature of code book interior, bouncing ball sketch.

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Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Love the influx of academics to Bluesky. Will this be our new 🏠? To help grow the community, I just created an HCI+Accessibility "starter pack". Help me grow the list! Many are missing! go.bsky.app/PZxHNqP

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Emily Tseng @emtseng.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I’m at #CSCW2024, which feels like the right place to use Bluesky for the first time! I’m recruiting PhD students to UW HCDE who want to think about digital safety from a sociotechnical lens.

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Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

As we work on those #CHI2025 videos (deadline: Sept 19), here is a set of inspirational videos 🎥 curated by my lab. Would love more examples, especially for other HCI research contribution types. Send them my way! docs.google.com/presentation...

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Makeability Lab - How to Videos

How to Videos makeabilitylab.cs.uw.edu Thanks to Professor Liang He for recommending some examples

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Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

I tried joining earlier but wasn’t cool enough for an invite. Alas, a repeat of the slow, network-based roll out of GMail, Facebook, etc. 🤣

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Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

Interaction design is a largely visual discipline. So too then are HCI papers. We need to craft and tell visual stories. As the CHI deadline nears, here's a set of exemplary figures curated by my lab. Hope it helps inspire! If you have other examples, please share! docs.google.com/presentation...

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Makeability Lab - How to Figures

How to figures makeabilitylab.cs.uw.edu

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Aaron Hertzmann @aaronhertzmann.com · 19/08/2024

Here's my the talk for the #SIGGRAPH 2024 Computer Graphics Achievement award, about my experiences in painting, computer graphics and the science of art. And how so much art and research are unplanned and unpredictable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehgj... aaronhertzmann.com/2024/08/19/j...

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SIGGRAPH 2024 Award Talk: My journey in art and computing (so far)

YouTube video by Aaron Hertzmann

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