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Jon Froehlich

@jonfroehlich.bsky.social

🎓 HCI Professor, UW CS 🛠️ Director, makeabilitylab.cs.washington.edu ♿️ Co-founder, projectsidewalk.org 🤖 Visiting Researcher, Google Research

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Jon Froehlich@jonfroehlich.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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.

Allen School@uwcse.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#HuskyGivingDay is here! Gifts of any amount help unlock up to $10K more for #UWAllen priorities like undergraduate scholarships, which ensures that an Allen School education remains within reach of students regardless of their means. Let's go! bit.ly/hgd-allen-sc... #PoweredByYou #HuskyExperience

Portrait of Benjamin Moskalensky (B.S., ‘25) with quote: “Being able to complete this experience of going to college, getting a high-level education, providing back to the research community, getting involved in my own startup — all these things were made possible.”
Jon Froehlich@jonfroehlich.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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
Jon Froehlich@jonfroehlich.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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
Project Sidewalk@projectsidewalk.bsky.social · 12mo ago

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 two-stage RampNet banner
Allen School@uwcse.bsky.social · last yr.

#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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Project Sidewalk@projectsidewalk.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

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Dr. Casey Fiesler@cfiesler.bsky.social · last yr.

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.