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Seattle, WA
Joined May 2013
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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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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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📢 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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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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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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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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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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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/al…
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So excited for the #UIST2024 Demo Session tonight. Come check out @makeabilitylab demos spanning drones, AR, and mobile fabrication. A 🧵.
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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
ALT Three smiling men standing side-by-side onstage, with the one in the center holding an award certificate
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We are ecstatic to have you! 🎉🎈🎊 Welcome to @uwcse and the @makeabilitylab!
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!
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Exciting update: I went on to present at the #TAPIA2024 graduate research competition and won 1st place 🥇 so thankful to my Adobe mentors and my UW advisor for all their guidance
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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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HCI systems papers need to tell visual stories. As we near the CHI deadline, here's a set of exemplary figures curated by my lab. Hope it helps inspire! Feel free to contribute some examples. docs.google.com/presentation…
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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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📢Do you work on Urban + AI topics? How will AI impact the design of equitable & accessible cities, transit systems, and mapping tools? Submit to the 4th Annual Workshop on "The Future of Urban Accessibility: The Role of AI"; Deadline Sept 20th. CFP: accessiblecities.github.io/U…
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🔔 NEW: We are now offering $10 compensation for every valid survey response! Spread the word and contribute to a more inclusive community! 🤗
Fill out the screening form here: tinyurl.com/sidewalk-survey
📢Calling all mobility aid users. We just launched our most ambitious @projsidewalk study yet. We need 100+ participants who use mobility devices such as wheelchairs, walkers, scooters for an online survey. You'll look at images of sidewalk barriers. See tinyurl.com/sidewalk-survey
ALT Mobility aid flyer for our study showing three images of different sidewalk barriers and eligibility criteria
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4,359 labels to *ONE MILLION*. Let's go! 🚀
ALT A screenshot of Project Sidewalk showing a pole in the middle of the sidewalk, which is being labeled as an obstacle and rated as a "severe obstacle"
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Thank you for supporting our research in making sidewalks more accessible! ♿️
📢Calling all mobility aid users. We just launched our most ambitious @projsidewalk study yet. We need 100+ participants who use mobility devices such as wheelchairs, walkers, scooters for an online survey. You'll look at images of sidewalk barriers. See tinyurl.com/sidewalk-survey
ALT Mobility aid flyer for our study showing three images of different sidewalk barriers and eligibility criteria
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This is huge. Let's make maps better for people who use mobility aids. See tinyurl.com/sidewalk-survey. Study lead by the amazing PhD student @Chimichurrichu.
📢Calling all mobility aid users. We just launched our most ambitious @projsidewalk study yet. We need 100+ participants who use mobility devices such as wheelchairs, walkers, scooters for an online survey. You'll look at images of sidewalk barriers. See tinyurl.com/sidewalk-survey
ALT Mobility aid flyer for our study showing three images of different sidewalk barriers and eligibility criteria