A collection of the latest honors and awards received by CREATE leaders, faculty members, post doctoral researchers, and students.
CHI 2026: Papers and Presentations on Accessibility
March 23, 2026 Accessibility-related papers, presentations, and workshops from CREATE researchers at CHI 2026, the ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. We appreciate your patience as we continue to update this page. Congratulations to CREATE associate director Jon E. Froehlich, who will be honored with a Societal Impact Award at the 2026 SIGCHI Conference in Barcelona!…
Kane, Jayant, Wobbrock, Ladner: 2025 SIGACCESS ASSETS Paper Impact Award
March 6, 2026 A paper on mobile device accessibility and co-authored by CREATE leaders was honored with the 10-Year Lasting Impact Award at the International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS ’25). The 2009 ACM ASSETS paper, Freedom to roam: A study of mobile device adoption and accessibility for people with visual and…
Richard Ladner: SIGCSE Outstanding Contribution to CS Education Award
March 5, 2026 Richard Ladner, CREATE's Founding Director for Education Emeritus and a continuing CREATE faculty member, received the 2026 Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education Award at the ACM SIGCSE Conference. The award cited Ladner’s contributions to accessible computer science education at the K-12, college, and graduate levels and was given “in recognition of…
Jon E. Froehlich Honored with SIGCHI Societal Impact Award
March 3, 2026 CREATE associate director Jon E. Froehlich will be honored with a Societal Impact Award at the 2026 SIGCHI Conference in Barcelona this spring. As fellow CREATE associate director Jacob O. Wobbrock noted, "His research in urban accessibility has achieved what few HCI researchers ever accomplish: direct, measurable change on a global scale.…
Hackfest project for children with cerebral palsy goes on to win design awards
January 29, 2026 Internationally recognized research to address a real-world need got its start at a CREATE hackfest. In 2024, students Lige Yang and Richard Li teamed up at the CREATE AI+Accessibility Hackfest to explore the concept of an AI tool that could monitor a person’s seated position, identify when they are in a posture…
Hala Annabi to lead new UW Institute for Neurodiversity and Employment
October 21, 2025 CREATE congratulates faculty member Dr. Hala Annabi on her new role as the Founding Director of the new UW Institute for Neurodiversity and Employment. The institute will bring together an interdisciplinary team of leading scholars, practitioners, and employers. Together they will work to build the capacity of the UW, Washington state, and…
With new NIH funding, CREATE postdoc Bethany Sloane continues research for children with cerebral palsy, motor delays
September 15, 2025 CREATE postdoctoral researcher Bethany Sloane has been working to expand power mobility options for young children with cerebral palsy and other mobility delays. The NIH K23 Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award will allow her to pursue her research for the next four years. Exploration and self-initiated mobility are known to support…
ASSETS 2025: CREATE Papers, Presentations and Demos
August 27, 2025 CREATE faculty, students, and alumni will be well represented at ASSETS 2025 in Denver this fall. In addition to the papers and experience reports listed below, these CREATE members are part of the ASSETS 2025 Program Committee: CREATE associate director Leah Findlater and several CREATE postdoctoral researchers: Emma McDonnell (also a CREATE…
James Fogarty inducted into SIGCHI Academy
May 13, 2025 CREATE associate director James Fogarty has been inducted into the SIGCHI Academy Class of 2025. Each class of the the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction represents the principal leaders of the field, whose research has helped shape how we think of HCI. A central figure in Seattle’s human-computer interaction (HCI) community…
CHI 2025: CREATE Papers and Presentations
March 24, 2025 Papers Presentations Workshops Student Games Papers, presentations, and workshops from CREATE researchers at CHI 2025, the ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. We appreciate your patience as we continue to update this page. The conference takes place April 26 - May 1 in Yokohama Japan. Awards and honors Congratulations…
Paper by Jaewook Lee and Jon E. Froehlich earns recognition
October 8, 2024 People with low vision face hazards in the kitchen – namely sharp knives and hot pans. A research team led by CREATE Ph.D. student Jaewook Lee and including CREATE associate director Jon E. Froehlich authored CookAR: Affordance Augmentations in Wearable AR to Support Kitchen Tool Interactions for People with Low Vision. CookAR…
CREATE at ASSETS 2024: Papers & Workshops
September 25, 2024 CREATE faculty, students, and alumni had a large presence at ASSETS 2024, the international ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. If we missed any CREATE research, please email Liz Diether-Martin with the details. Awards ASSETS 2024 Best Paper Award:Engaging with Children's Artwork in Mixed Visual-Ability FamiliesArnavi Chheda-Kothary, Jacob O. Wobbrock (CREATE associate…
CREATE awarded $4.6M for research on AI risks, opportunities for people with disabilities
September 10, 2024 We are excited to announce that CREATE has been awarded a five-year, $4.6 million grant to advance crucial research on artificial intelligence (AI) and generative artificial intelligence (GAI). Research and development projects will explore questions about recent developments in AI and GAI: What risks do they pose for people with disabilities? And…
Anat Caspi speaks at White House panel on AI in Transportation
June 17, 2024 CREATE associate director Anat Caspi spoke on ‘Mapping, Visualizing, and Building the Future’ as part of a White House panel on AI in Transportation. Focused on developing a national transportation infrastructure observatory and an accompanying application ecosystem, the panel gathered innovators in transportation, aiming to align end users, researchers, entrepreneurs, and federal…
Gatzert Child Welfare Fellowship for Reham Abuatiq
June 13, 2024 Congratulations to CREATE Ph.D. student Reham Abuatiq, who has received the 2024 Gatzert Child Welfare Fellowship, which will fully fund her for one quarter for her dissertation writing phase! Advised by CREATE associate director Heather Feldner, Abuatiq's dissertation work explores the Healthcare Transition of Middle Eastern Youth with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and…
CREATE Students Honored in Husky100
Two students selected for the 2024 Husky 100 exemplify CREATE's mission to make technology accessible and make the world accessible through technology while involving people with lived disability experiences in their research. Kianna Bolante Kianna Bolante is an undergraduate student studying computer science who has deepened her understanding of accessibility needs and computing education research…
Amy Ko named ACM Distinguished Member
March 18, 2024 Congratulations to CREATE faculty Amy J. Ko, who has been recognized as a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for her work on human-centered theories of program understanding and the development of tools and learning technologies. “I'm honored to be recognized by my nominators, all of whom have been role models and mentors…
Zhang is CREATE’s Newest Apple AIML fellow
March 18, 2024 Congratulations to Zhuohao (Jerry) Zhang – the most recent CREATE Ph.D. student to receive an Apple Scholars in AIML PhD fellowship. The prestigious award supports students through funding, internship opportunities, and mentorship with an Apple researcher. Zhang is a 3rd-year iSchool Ph.D. student advised by Prof. Jacob. O Wobbrock. His research focuses…
Anat Caspi receives Human Rights Educator Award
Congratulations to Anat Caspi on receiving the 2023 Human Rights Education Award from the Seattle Human Rights Commission! Caspi, a CREATE associate director and the founder and director of the Taskar Center for Accessible Technology, thanked the commission for recognition of her individual dedication and emphasized that it also celebrates the collective efforts of the…
CREATE Open Source Projects Awarded at Web4All
July 6, 2023 CREATE researchers shone this spring at the 2023 Web4All 2023 conference that, in part, seeks to "make the internet more accessible to the more than one billion people who struggle to interact with digital content each day due to neurodivergence, disability or other impairments." Two CREATE-funded open source projects won accolades. Best…