Makeability Lab

The Makeability Lab's mission is to design, build, & study interactive tools and techniques to address pressing societal challenges. Join us!

[Makeability Lab @makeabilitylab]

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[Xia Su @XiaSu09]

🚀 Excited to share that our paper “CapNav: Benchmarking Vision Language Models on Capability-conditioned Indoor Navigation” has been accepted to #CVPR2026 (main track)!
📄: https://t.co/ZdSpsMPBJY
💻GitHub: https://t.co/1XkvpxywEY
🤗Hugging Face: https://t.co/LzQ77EykX4
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[Makeability Lab @makeabilitylab]

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: https://t.co/SJmTgPEcHN

[Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich]

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

[Makeability Lab @makeabilitylab]

@GromitC Thank you! Code here: https://t.co/IzaSAl1orE

[Project Sidewalk @projsidewalk]

📢 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. 🎉🥳🎈🎊

[Arnavi Chheda-Kothary @arnavic]

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

[Makeability Lab @makeabilitylab]

(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): https://t.co/J1E0fiTFcR

[Makeability Lab @makeabilitylab]

Today, we kick off hashtag#ASSETS2024 in beautiful St. John's, Newfoundland. Would love to meet up with you if you're also here!

[Makeability Lab @makeabilitylab]

(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.

[Allen School @uwcse]

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 https://t.co/u7p59MzAv4

[Makeability Lab @makeabilitylab]

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! https://t.co/cQKY5Pwu6d

[Arnavi Chheda-Kothary @arnavic]

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)

[Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich]

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.

[Chu Li @Chimichurrichu]

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

[Makeability Lab @makeabilitylab]

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

[Makeability Lab @makeabilitylab]

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

[Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich]

So excited for the #UIST2024 Demo Session tonight. Come check out @makeabilitylab demos spanning drones, AR, and mobile fabrication. A 🧵.