Jon Froehlich

So excited and honored to visit the University of Chicago for this talk and to engage with the incredible scholarly community there. Please join us.

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.

Had Gemini 3.1 Pro fill out my 🏀 NCAA bracket this morning based purely on "CS Grad School Rankings" 🤣 CC @markriedl.bsky.social

It's (finally) getting easier to produce accessible PDFs with LaTeX in Overleaf: www.overleaf.com/blog/accessi...

Happy Valentine's Day from the Makeability Lab. Sending 💕during this time of tumultuousness. Take care of yourself and those around you.

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...

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

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

📢🚨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

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! 🍿

Who is this guy? And what's he doing in Google Street View?! www.google.com/maps/@47.648...

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!

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.

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...

#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...

[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/

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

#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...

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.

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.

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...

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

Seattle folks: I'm giving a (free) public lecture Feb 24, where I'll explain what our team's decade of research on online rumors & disinformation reveals about the once-alternative media ecosystem that is driving the rise of right wing populism around the world. www.washington.edu/facultystaff...

Writing is thinking. It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.

It's great to come on to Bluesky and see so many old friends here. A good first post may be to remind everyone that Penn's PhD application deadline this is Dec. 16. We at Penn HCI are recruiting this year! Myself in the areas of HCI/PL and augmented reading. We welcome your application!

⚠️ We're recruiting participants for a research study! We'd like to understand how people use disability parking. Fill out this screener if you fit the criteria, and we may reach out to interview you. 🔗 tinyurl.com/uw-parking-screener 💸 $25/hr compensation