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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Jon E. Froehlich is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research spans interdisciplinary fields with notable contributions in computer science and social sciences, producing 19 and 16 publications respectively in these areas. Their work focuses extensively on the intersection of technology and accessibility.

The scientist's main research topics cover:

  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Music and Audio Processing
  • Digital Accessibility for Disabilities
  • Assistive Technology in Communication and Mobility
  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
  • Traffic and Road Safety

Froehlich's subfields of study include:

  • Transportation
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Signal Processing
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Human Factors and Ergonomics

Frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Froehlich include:

  • What Do We Mean by "Accessibility Research"? A Literature Survey of Accessibility Papers in CHI and ASSETS from 1994 to 2019, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • ProtoSound: A Personalized and Scalable Sound Recognition System for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Users, 2022, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Urban Accessibility as a Socio-Political Problem, 2021, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • Toward User-Driven Sound Recognizer Personalization with People Who Are d/Deaf or Hard of Hearing, 2021, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
  • Visualizing Urban Accessibility: Investigating Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives through a Map-based Design Probe Study, 2022, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Frequent coauthors working alongside Froehlich include:

  • Leah Findlater
  • Dhruv Jain
  • Michael Saugstad
  • Emma J. McDonnell
  • Steven M. Goodman

In 2017, Froehlich received the distinction of Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Best Publications

  • Activity sensing in the wild: a field trial of ubifit garden

    Sunny Consolvo;David W. McDonald;Tammy Toscos;Mike Y. Chen

  • The design of eco-feedback technology

    Jon Froehlich;Leah Findlater;James Landay

  • UbiGreen: investigating a mobile tool for tracking and supporting green transportation habits

    Jon Froehlich;Tawanna Dillahunt;Predrag Klasnja;Jennifer Mankoff

  • MyExperience: a system for in situ tracing and capturing of user feedback on mobile phones

    Jon Froehlich;Mike Y. Chen;Sunny Consolvo;Beverly Harrison

  • Ability-Based Design: Concept, Principles and Examples

    Jacob O. Wobbrock;Shaun K. Kane;Krzysztof Z. Gajos;Susumu Harada

  • Flowers or a robot army?: encouraging awareness & activity with personal, mobile displays

    Sunny Consolvo;Predrag Klasnja;David W. McDonald;Daniel Avrahami

  • Sensing and predicting the pulse of the city through shared bicycling

    Jon Froehlich;Joachim Neumann;Nuria Oliver

  • Disaggregated End-Use Energy Sensing for the Smart Grid

    J Froehlich;E Larson;S Gupta;G Cohn

  • Mind the theoretical gap: interpreting, using, and developing behavioral theory in HCI research

    Eric B. Hekler;Predrag Klasnja;Jon E. Froehlich;Matthew P. Buman

  • Route Prediction from Trip Observations

    Jon Froehlich;John Krumm

  • What Do We Mean by “Accessibility Research”?: A Literature Survey of Accessibility Papers in CHI and ASSETS from 1994 to 2019

    Kelly Mack;Emma McDonnell;Dhruv Jain;Lucy Lu Wang

  • Unifying artifacts and activities in a visual tool for distributed software development teams

    Jon Froehlich;Paul Dourish

  • HydroSense: infrastructure-mediated single-point sensing of whole-home water activity

    Jon E. Froehlich;Eric Larson;Tim Campbell;Conor Haggerty

  • Combining crowdsourcing and google street view to identify street-level accessibility problems

    Kotaro Hara;Vicki Le;Jon Froehlich

  • Are GSM Phones THE Solution for Localization

    A. Varshavsky;Mike Y. Chen;E. de Lara;J. Froehlich

  • The design and evaluation of prototype eco-feedback displays for fixture-level water usage data

    Jon Froehlich;Leah Findlater;Marilyn Ostergren;Solai Ramanathan

  • Age-related differences in performance with touchscreens compared to traditional mouse input

    Leah Findlater;Jon E. Froehlich;Kays Fattal;Jacob O. Wobbrock

  • Seeking the source: software source code as a social and technical artifact

    Cleidson de Souza;Jon Froehlich;Paul Dourish

  • Social fabric fitness: the design and evaluation of wearable E-textile displays to support group running

    Matthew Mauriello;Michael Gubbels;Jon E. Froehlich

  • Improving Public Transit Accessibility for Blind Riders by Crowdsourcing Bus Stop Landmark Locations with Google Street View: An Extended Analysis

    Kotaro Hara;Shiri Azenkot;Megan Campbell;Cynthia L. Bennett

  • Improving public transit accessibility for blind riders by crowdsourcing bus stop landmark locations with Google street view

    Kotaro Hara;Shiri Azenkot;Megan Campbell;Cynthia L. Bennett

Frequent Co-Authors

Leah Findlater
Leah Findlater University of Washington
Shwetak N. Patel
Shwetak N. Patel University of Washington
James A. Landay
James A. Landay Stanford University
James Fogarty
James Fogarty University of Washington
Sunny Consolvo
Sunny Consolvo Google (United States)
Beverly L. Harrison
Beverly L. Harrison Microsoft (United States)
Mike Y. Chen
Mike Y. Chen National Taiwan University
Predrag Klasnja
Predrag Klasnja University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Rama Chellappa
Rama Chellappa Johns Hopkins University
Les Atlas
Les Atlas University of Washington

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