Jon Froehlich
@jonfroehlich.bsky.social
🎓 HCI Professor, UW CS
🛠️ Director, makeabilitylab.cs.uw.edu
♿️ Co-founder, projectsidewalk.org
🤖 Visiting Researcher, Google Research
🛠️ Director, makeabilitylab.cs.uw.edu
♿️ Co-founder, projectsidewalk.org
🤖 Visiting Researcher, Google Research
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Happy Valentine's Day from the Makeability Lab. Sending 💕during this time of tumultuousness. Take care of yourself and those around you.
February 13, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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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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...
👉 Get started: scistarter.org/project-side...
January 19, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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...
👉 Get started: scistarter.org/project-side...
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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/phd
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.
data-and-design.org
September 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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/phd
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UMD CS is hiring in systems and data science, broadly construed (security definitely counts). Come work with us! www.cs.umd.edu/job/2025/jr1...
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor
The Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA is recruiting to fill multiple tenure-track faculty positions, with starting dates on or after July 1, 2026. The...
www.cs.umd.edu
November 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
UMD CS is hiring in systems and data science, broadly construed (security definitely counts). Come work with us! www.cs.umd.edu/job/2025/jr1...
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!
November 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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!
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
🌆 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
Jon E. Froehlich
Professor Froehlich’s academic webpage.
jonfroehlich.github.io
November 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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
🌆 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
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.
Change starts here
Join over 500,000,000 people creating real change in their communities.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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.
📢🚨Folks, you can only submit 25 papers this year to CVPR (25 submissions per author cap). So, please plan accordingly.
November 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
📢🚨Folks, you can only submit 25 papers this year to CVPR (25 submissions per author cap). So, please plan accordingly.
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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October 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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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I’m thrilled to start my little book tour at the place where I wrote a good chunk of the book! 📚☕️👩💻
Please join Ada's Technical Books & Cafe in welcoming @katharinareinecke.bsky.social to discuss her book, Digital Culture Shock, tomorrow (September 23rd) at 6:00 pm PDT.
Learn more about this free, in-person event here: adasbooks.com/event/2025-0....
Learn more about this free, in-person event here: adasbooks.com/event/2025-0....
September 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I’m thrilled to start my little book tour at the place where I wrote a good chunk of the book! 📚☕️👩💻
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! 🍿
We'd love to feature more videos, especially 30 sec previews. Don't be shy in promoting your own work! 🍿
Makeability Lab - How to Videos
How to Videos makeabilitylab.cs.uw.edu Thanks to Professor Liang He for recommending some examples
docs.google.com
September 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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! 🍿
We'd love to feature more videos, especially 30 sec previews. Don't be shy in promoting your own work! 🍿
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!
September 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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!
Now fixed with new post. Thanks Nuno!
September 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Now fixed with new post. Thanks Nuno!
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!
New content suggestions always appreciated. Don't be shy to promote your own work!
Makeability Lab - How to Figures
How to figures makeabilitylab.cs.uw.edu
docs.google.com
September 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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!
New content suggestions always appreciated. Don't be shy to promote your own work!
Thanks. Will repost with fixed link!
September 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Thanks. Will repost with fixed link!
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! 🙏
August 21, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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! 🙏
📄UIST'25 preprint: makeabilitylab.cs.washington.edu/media/public...
🚀 Project page: makeabilitylab.cs.washington.edu/project/stre...
🚀 Project page: makeabilitylab.cs.washington.edu/project/stre...
makeabilitylab.cs.washington.edu
August 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
📄UIST'25 preprint: makeabilitylab.cs.washington.edu/media/public...
🚀 Project page: makeabilitylab.cs.washington.edu/project/stre...
🚀 Project page: makeabilitylab.cs.washington.edu/project/stre...
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 🧑🏽💻.
August 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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 🧑🏽💻.
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
🧠 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
August 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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
🧠 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
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
🚀 "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
August 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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
🚀 "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
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
StreetViewAI is a new, accessible street view prototype using context-aware, real-time AI & voice interaction.
youtu.be/wY_2vfDikkQ
StreetViewAI: Making Street View Accessible Using Context-Aware Multimodal AI (30-Sec Preview)
YouTube video by Jon E. Froehlich
youtu.be
August 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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
StreetViewAI is a new, accessible street view prototype using context-aware, real-time AI & voice interaction.
youtu.be/wY_2vfDikkQ
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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.
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.
August 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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.
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.
Reposted by Jon Froehlich
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
August 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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