Thank you @pedrolopes.org. I am deeply honored with the award and grateful that you attended. 🙏

On Fri, come hear my PhD student, @chimichurrichu.bsky.social, present her Best Paper on an AI-based geovisualization QA system for screen-reader users called GeoVisA11y & my PhD student, @jaredhwang.bsky.social, present his first-ever CHI paper on bike routing using VLMs called BikeButler.

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

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.

Showing Jon’s actual picks with a ranking of 10.4m (62% correct) and CS Grad Rankinfs (16.5m, 39.9% correct)

Not so good Mark, not so good. I blame reductions in funding at NSF, misplaced priorities, inadequate pipelines, GRFP cutbacks, etc.

Screenshot of AI bot NCAA bracket performance with Claude Sonnet ranked 19k in the world, Opus 890k, Gemini 3.1 Pro 1.9m

As an update, Claude is dominating (as per my usual experience with it)!

A screenshot of the upper-half of the NCAA tourney bracket filled out based on CS rankings

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

HCID521 Wi'26 Design Prompt: Prototyping Interactive Mini-Golf HCID521 Prototyping Studio Wi’26 Prototype an Interactive Mini-Golf Course Public Exhibit: Mon, 3/16; Deliverables: Wed, 3/18 | 🏠Course Website | 🗃️Canvas | 📅Schedule | ➡️CP1 Figure 1. A lo-fi protot...

Each hole has its own personality—unique mechanics, custom obstacles, interactive AV, and creative twists. How do you putt? Maybe with a club, your nose 👃🏽, or foot 👞. The course reacts to you in real-time! See the design prompt here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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

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)

Accessible PDFs with LaTeX An online LaTeX editor that’s easy to use. No installation, real-time collaboration, version control, hundreds of LaTeX templates, and more.

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...

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.

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...

It makes me 😭

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!

Jon E. Froehlich Professor Froehlich’s academic webpage.

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

Change starts here Join over 500,000,000 people creating real change in their communities.

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.

A screenshot of the OpenReview.net form that says "Submission Cap Confirmed" and "I understand that if I submit more than 25 papers, any submissions beyond the twenty-fifth will be desk rejected"

📢🚨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! 📚☕️👩‍💻

Makeability Lab - How to Videos How to Videos makeabilitylab.cs.uw.edu Thanks to Professor Liang He for recommending some examples

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! 🍿

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!

Who is this guy? And what's he doing in Google Street View?!

www.google.com/maps/@47.648...

Now fixed with new post. Thanks Nuno!

Makeability Lab - How to Figures How to figures makeabilitylab.cs.uw.edu

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!

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! 🙏

📄UIST'25 preprint: makeabilitylab.cs.washington.edu/media/public...
🚀 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 🧑🏽‍💻.

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