Now that the #CHI2025 deadline is over, it's time to work on your UrbanAccess2024 submissions 🙌🏽. Deadline Sept 20 11:59PM AOE. accessiblecities.github.io/UrbanAccess202…

📅UrbanAccess'24 deadline extended to Sept 27th. Submit those Urban+AI thought pieces, position papers, works-in-progress, demos, and more! accessiblecities.github.io/UrbanAccess202…

For the last decade+, my group has developed new interactive tools to advance understanding of the accessibility of the physical world for people with disabilities—projects like AccessScore, AccessVis, and Sidewalk Equity.

Congrats to Hoda Allahbakhshi and Annina Ardüser on their paper "Navigation Challenges in Urban Areas for Persons with Mobility Restrictions", which used Project Sidewalk in Zurich to gather participatory data on sidewalk accessibility! drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/docum…

How did we miss this? Check out this amazing "Story Map" of using Project Sidewalk to evaluate sidewalk accessibility around transit stations in Chicago: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/72a8c2… #Chicago #UrbanAccessibility

Here’s to all the #VerizonVolunteers participating in the Project Sidewalk #CitizenScience project through SciStarter’s corporate volunteer program. More than 10,000 digital observations from @verizon volunteers have helped researchers identify accessibility issues pertaining to

We are too! Thanks to you and the Active Transporation Alliance! 💜

📢 Do you use disability parking? We're conducting an interview study to better understand opportunities & challenges with disability parking & the role of emerging technology therein. Interested? Fill out this screener: 🔗 tinyurl.com/uw-parking-scr… 💸 $25/hr compensation

This Martin Luther King Jr. Day, let's honor his legacy through service. We're giving back by participating in #CitizenScience projects like Project Sidewalk, where classifying street-view photos helps make cities more accessible. Watch the full SciStarter LIVE episode featuring

In honor of Danville native, Gene Hackman's passing at 95 yrs - working on his childhood home section in Project Sidewalk. #GeneHackman #Danville Downtown Danville, VermilionCountyFirst.com, Danville Underground, Matt

How well do crowdsourcing assessments of sidewalks compare with government data? Find out in our new Journal of Urban Science paper: Validating Pedestrian Infrastructure Data: How Well Do Street-View Imagery Audits Compare to Government Field Data? mdpi.com/2413-8851/9/4/…

Our pilot in India 🇮🇳 is now live 🎉🥳

📢We've completely redesigned our API pages! It's never been easier to: ✔️ Download data in CSV, GeoJSON, or Shapefiles. ✔️ Access data programmatically through our revised API. ✔️ Build tools that champion accessibility & improve urban mobility. sidewalk-chicago.cs.washington.edu/api