Jon E. Froehlich
Professor
Builds human-AI systems for urban accessibility, including crowdsourced and computer-vision sidewalk assessment, and AR tools.
Jon E. Froehlich's lab at UW works on human-AI collaboration & trust and accessibility, health & wellbeing. 65 papers since 2023, 23 at top venues, mostly CHI and UIST. 6 PhD students and 1 master's student. 257 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 17/ year
- at T1 venues
- 35%
- PhD students
- 6
- MS students
- 1
- alumni listed
- 257
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 14 papers2026 · T1 5 · collecting
- 19 papers2025 · T1 7
- 22 papers2024 · T1 10
- 10 papers2023 · T1 1
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CHI, UIST, CVPR, IUI
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Accessibility, health & wellbeing15 papers
- accessibility14 papers
- Human-AI collaboration & trust4 papers
- human-ai systems0 papers
- crowdsourced0 papers
Paper list
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202614 papers
- Demo Proceedings of UISTAgentCube: AI-Assisted In-Situ Authoring for Physical Computing (opens in a new tab)
- UIST (T1)ArtScape: Detecting, Characterizing, and Interactively Exploring Urban Art at Scale Using Vision Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)BikeButler: A Personalized, Context-sensitive Bike Routing Tool using Open Data and VLM-based Analyses of Street View Imagery (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)CapNav: Benchmarking Vision Language Models on Capability-conditioned Indoor Navigation
- Proceedings of MobileHCIDeploying an AI-Powered Mobile Tool to Support Connection Through Creative Visual Interpretation in Mixed Visual-Ability Families (opens in a new tab)
- Demo Proceedings of ASSETSExpanding Access to Urban Art at Scale: A Demo of ArtScape (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)GeoVisA11y: An AI-based Geovisualization Question-Answering System for Screen-Reader Users (opens in a new tab)
- GAZEHow Much Future Helps? A Controlled Study of Future-Privileged Supervision for Causal Egocentric Gaze Estimation (opens in a new tab)
- UIST (T1)LandmarkLens: Predicting and Presenting Effective Landmarks for Mixed-Reality Urban Exploration (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of ASSETSOpportunities for AI-Enhanced Visual Story Creation by Blind and Low-Vision Children (opens in a new tab)
- Poster Proceedings of UISTPreviewAR: Sketching Spaces for Scale-Aware Product Discovery in AR (opens in a new tab)
- Workshop Proceedings of AI4UPTowards Human-AI Accessibility Mapping in India: VLM-Guided Annotations and POI-Centric Analysis in Chandigarh
202519 papers
- Workshop Proceedings of ICCV CV4A11y Workshop“Does the cafe entrance look accessible? Where is the door?” Towards Geospatial AI Agents for Visual Inquiries
- Proceedings of ASSETS"Where Can I Park?" Understanding Human Perspectives and Scalably Detecting Disability Parking from Aerial Imagery (opens in a new tab)
- Demo Proceedings of ASSETSA Demo of GeoQA3 : Towards An Accessible AI-based Question-Answering System for Geoanalytics (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Accessibility for Whom? Perceptions of Mobility Barriers Across Disability Groups and Implications for Designing Personalized Maps (opens in a new tab)
- UIST (T1)Accessibility Scout: Personalized Accessibility Scans of Built Environments (opens in a new tab)
- IUIArtInsight: Enabling AI-Powered Artwork Engagement for Mixed Visual-Ability Families (opens in a new tab)
- Extended Abstract Proceedings of CHIAuthoring 2.5D Designs with Depth Estimation (opens in a new tab)
- UIST (T1)FlyMeThrough: Human-AI Collaborative 3D Indoor Mapping with Commodity Drones (opens in a new tab)
- UIST (T1)ImaginateAR: AI-Assisted In-Situ Authoring in Augmented Reality (opens in a new tab)
- Workshop Proceedings of CV4A11yIntroduction to the First Workshop on Vision Foundation Models and Generative AI for Accessibility
- Demo Proceedings of ASSETSMaking Street View Accessible Using Context-Aware Multimodal AI: A Demo of StreetReaderAI (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)NightLight: Passively Mapping Nighttime Sidewalk Light Data for Improved Pedestrian Routing (opens in a new tab)
202422 papers
- CHI (T1)“Caption It in an Accessible Way That Is Also Enjoyable”: Characterizing User-Driven Captioning Practices on TikTok (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)“I never realized sidewalks were a big deal”: A Case Study of a Community-Driven Sidewalk Audit Using Project Sidewalk (opens in a new tab)
- Demo Proceedings of UISTA Demo of DIAM: Drone-based Indoor Accessibility Mapping (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of IEEE VISAltGeoViz: Facilitating Accessible Geovisualization (opens in a new tab)
- Workshop Proceedings of TRBAt the Intersection of Disability Justice, Pedestrian Safety, and Health
- UIST (T1)CookAR: Affordance Augmentations in Wearable AR to Support Kitchen Tool Interactions for People with Low Vision (opens in a new tab)
- Demo Proceedings of UISTEmbodied AR Language Learning Through Everyday Object Interactions: A Demonstration of EARLL (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of ASSETSEngaging with Children’s Artwork in Mixed Visual-Ability Families (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)GazePointAR: A Context-Aware Multimodal Voice Assistant for Pronoun Disambiguation in Wearable Augmented Reality (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)LabelAId: Just-in-time AI Interventions for Improving Human Labeling Quality and Domain Knowledge in Crowdsourcing Systems (opens in a new tab)
- Workshop Proceedings of UrbanAccessMaking Urban Art Accessible: Current Art Access Techniques, Design Considerations, and the Role of AI
- UIST (T1)MobiPrint: A Mobile 3D Printer for Environment-Scale Design and Fabrication (opens in a new tab)
202310 papers
- CHI (T1)“Easier or Harder, Depending on Who the Hearing Person Is”: Codesigning Videoconferencing Tools for Small Groups with Mixed Hearing Status (opens in a new tab)
- Demo Proceedings of ASSETSA Demonstration of RASSAR: Room Accessibility and Safety Scanning in Augmented Reality (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of ASSETSA Large-Scale Mixed-Methods Analysis of Blind and Low-vision Research in ACM and IEEE (opens in a new tab)
- Workshop Proceedings of SuMobAccessible Area Mapper for Inclusive and Sustainable Urban Mobility: A Preliminary Investigation of Airborne Point Clouds for Pathway Analysis (opens in a new tab)
- Poster Proceedings of ASSETSBusStopCV: A Real-time AI Assistant for Labeling Bus Stop Accessibility Features in Streetscape Imagery (opens in a new tab)
- Demo Proceedings of ASCIP Annual MeetingImplementing a Community-Based Virtual Tool To Characterize Sidewalk Accessibility in a Northern New Jersey (NJ) Town
- DisabilitiesMultiple-Stakeholder Perspectives on Accessibility Data and the Use of Socio-Technical Tools to Improve Sidewalk Accessibility (opens in a new tab)
- Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive TechnologyOff to the Park: A Geospatial Investigation of Adapted Ride-on Car Usage (opens in a new tab)
- Demo Proceedings of UISTTowards Designing a Context-Aware Multimodal Voice Assistant for Pronoun Disambiguation: A Demonstration of GazePointAR (opens in a new tab)
- Demo Proceedings of UISTTowards Real-time Computer Vision and Augmented Reality to Support Low Vision Sports: A Demonstration of ARTennis (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went257 listed
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