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A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sidewalks are a critical, yet often overlooked, part of our transportation system. Join us this Monday for a special #WeekWithoutDriving book talk with author Michael Pollack. RSVP to attend in person in Seattle or on Zoom nondrivers.org/2026/08/04/s...

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

Thanks to Seattle Times transportation reporter, Nicholas Deshais, and Seattle Times photographer, Ken Lambert, for the terrific article and photographs.

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

This collaborative work was led by Makeability Lab PhD student @jaredhwang.bsky.social and high school student John O'Meara (an incoming UW'er) along with contributions from Urban Planning PhD student Zeyu Wang and @uwcse.bsky.social undergrad Jasmine Zhang. Huge congrats team!

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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 · 14/04/2026

Thank you @pedrolopes.org. I am deeply honored with the award and grateful that you attended. 🙏

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

On Fri, come hear my PhD student, @chimichurrichu.bsky.social, present her Best Paper on an AI-based geovisualization QA system for screen-reader users called GeoVisA11y & my PhD student, @jaredhwang.bsky.social, present his first-ever CHI paper on bike routing using VLMs called BikeButler.

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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 · 27/03/2026

Not so good Mark, not so good. I blame reductions in funding at NSF, misplaced priorities, inadequate pipelines, GRFP cutbacks, etc.

Showing Jon’s actual picks with a ranking of 10.4m (62% correct) and CS Grad Rankinfs (16.5m, 39.9% correct)

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Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

As an update, Claude is dominating (as per my usual experience with it)!

Screenshot of AI bot NCAA bracket performance with Claude Sonnet ranked 19k in the world, Opus 890k, Gemini 3.1 Pro 1.9m

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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

Each hole has its own personality—unique mechanics, custom obstacles, interactive AV, and creative twists. How do you putt? Maybe with a club, your nose 👃🏽, or foot 👞. The course reacts to you in real-time! See the design prompt here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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HCID521 Wi'26 Design Prompt: Prototyping Interactive Mini-Golf

HCID521 Prototyping Studio Wi’26 Prototype an Interactive Mini-Golf Course Public Exhibit: Mon, 3/16; Deliverables: Wed, 3/18 | 🏠Course Website | 🗃️Canvas | 📅Schedule | ➡️CP1 Figure 1. A lo-fi protot...

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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

data-and-design.org

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

This is the way Mark! I am encouraging my 30 PhD students and 10 postdocs to draw straws on who can submit. Gotta hit that one million citation marker somehow!

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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

Seems a little unfair given the productivity of your lab. I think they should make exceptions for the very top scholars and cap it at a more reasonable ~50-100 papers. Probably a change.org opportunity here.

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Change starts here

Join over 500,000,000 people creating real change in their communities.

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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

Hahah. Indeed! The Google offices in Seattle are so beautiful. This is along the Burke Gilman bike/pedestrian trail along the canal, which connects to the Puget Sound. Feel very fortunate!

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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

Now fixed with new post. Thanks Nuno!

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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 · 02/09/2025

Thanks. Will repost with fixed link!

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Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Thank you Pedro. It has been an incredibly fulfilling project culminating and combining so many different parts of my prior work and built up expertise! 🙏

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

📄UIST'25 preprint: makeabilitylab.cs.washington.edu/media/public... 🚀 Project page: makeabilitylab.cs.washington.edu/project/stre...

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

On a personal level, this project was like a sabbatical dream 🦄, I got to reunite with @shaunkane.bsky.social (we first worked together in 2006), collaborate with some incredible Googlers including Alex Fiannaca, Nimer Jaber, and Victor Tsaran, and even write (lots of) code in Google's monorepo 🧑🏽‍💻.

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

Research challenges ahead: 🧠 Mental models of pedestrian navigation vs. inherent limitations of streetscape imagery ⚠️ Bias towards trusting AI output (even when wrong) 🎧 Interaction design difficulties in creating concise audio feedback 🌐 Improving spatial reasoning and multimodal AI for SV tasks

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

User feedback from our lab study with 11 blind users: 🚀 "This is a huge leap forward in navigation" ✨ "This is incredible" 😊 "This is going to make a lot of blind people very happy" A key finding: users overwhelmingly preferred conversing with the AI Chat Agent about the scene & local geography

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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 · 05/08/2025

Thank you Evan. A necessary labor of love. And most certainly a living document that evolves as I and my students continue to learn and grow (and the world changes).

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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

This workshop is organized by Professors Yapeng Tian, Yuhang Zhao, @jonfroehlich.bsky.social and PhD students @chimichurrichu.bsky.social and Yuheng Wu.

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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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Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Double bonus! Makeability Lab PhD student @arnavick.bsky.social (co-advised by Prof Wobbrock) is at #CHI2025 presenting her MS work from Columbia: "'It Brought Me Joy': Opportunities for Spatial Browsing in Desktop Screen Readers." This is research with her MS advisor Prof. Brian Smith. Go Arnavi!

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