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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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...
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
📢🚨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! 🍿
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!
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.
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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
📢 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...
Send in those submissions: cv4a11y.github.io/ICCV2025/ind...
cv4a11y.github.io
August 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
📢 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...
Send in those submissions: cv4a11y.github.io/ICCV2025/ind...
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#ICYMI, two #UWAllen Ph.D. graduates were recognized by @acm.org for their research in #AI #NLP: Ashish Sharma, senior applied scientist at @microsoft.com, and @sewonm.bsky.social, research scientist at @ai2.bsky.social and incoming faculty at UC Berkeley. www.geekwire.com/2025/extreme... #ThisIsUW
‘Extremely rare’: UW PhD computer science grads recognized with prestigious dissertation honors
University of Washington computer science PhD graduates Ashish Sharma, left and Sewon Min. (Photos via UW) Two PhD graduates from the University of
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June 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
#ICYMI, two #UWAllen Ph.D. graduates were recognized by @acm.org for their research in #AI #NLP: Ashish Sharma, senior applied scientist at @microsoft.com, and @sewonm.bsky.social, research scientist at @ai2.bsky.social and incoming faculty at UC Berkeley. www.geekwire.com/2025/extreme... #ThisIsUW
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...
Trump Administration Live Updates: U.S. Suspends Visa Interviews for Foreign Students
www.nytimes.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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...
📢 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...
Two submission tracks: extended abstracts and full papers—the latter published in the ICCV workshop proceedings.
cv4a11y.github.io/ICCV2025/ind...
Vision Foundation Models and Generative AI for Accessibility Workshop
CV4A11y, ICCV 2025 Workshop
cv4a11y.github.io
May 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
📢 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...
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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[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/
Code: github.com/AvaLovelace1...
Website: avalovelace1.github.io/LegoGPT/
May 10, 2025 at 3:06 AM
[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/
Code: github.com/AvaLovelace1...
Website: avalovelace1.github.io/LegoGPT/
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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
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...
makeabilitylab.cs.washington.edu
April 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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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#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...
April 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
#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...
📢 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...
April 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
📢 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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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.
April 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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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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.
March 3, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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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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...
More: www.washington.edu/news/2025/02...
February 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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...
More: www.washington.edu/news/2025/02...
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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
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org
March 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org