Kotaro Hara

Kotaro Hara

PhD Student, Computer Science

University of Maryland

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Kotaro Hara was a PhD Student in the Makeability Lab for 4.9 years (Mar 2012 to Dec 2016). Kotaro contributed to a project called Project Sidewalk as well as 10 publications. During their time in the lab, Kotaro mentored 9 Makeability Lab students, including Sean Pannella, Zachary Lawrence, and Daniil Zadorozhnyy.

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Projects

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Project Sidewalk

2012 – Present

Recent Papers

A Pilot Deployment of an Online Tool for Large-Scale Virtual Auditing of Urban Accessibility

None 2017

Manaswi Saha, Kotaro Hara, Soheil Behnezhad, Anthony Li, Mikey Saugstad, Teja Maddali, Sage Chen, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | doi | Citation | Project Sidewalk

The Design of Assistive Location-based Technologies for People with Ambulatory Disabilities: A Formative Study

None 2016

Kotaro Hara, Christine Chan, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | Citation | Project Sidewalk

Characterizing and Visualizing Physical World Accessibility at Scale Using Crowdsourcing, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning

None 2015

Kotaro Hara, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | Citation | Project Sidewalk

We design, build, and evaluate new interactive tools and techniques to address pressing societal challenges. Makeability refers both to how our technological innovations make new abilities possible for humans as well as our educational mission to help students gain new abilities as they learn and grow through research, invention, and human-centered design.