Jacob O. Wobbrock, along with UW iSchool alum Shaun Kane and UW Computer Science and Engineering alum Jeffrey Bigham, have won the 2019 SIGACCESS ASSETS Paper Impact Award for their paper, “Slide Rule: Making mobile touch screens accessible to blind people using multi-touch interaction...

David Levy and his work were cited in the Thrive Global article, This Is How We Can Save Ourselves from Information Overload, which explores the concept he labeled as “informational environmentalism” and the need to save ourselves from the “pollutants” of communications overload. UW...

Miranda Belarde-Lewis wrote a piece for Pacific NW Magazine in the Seattle Times titled, There are many versions of the Tlingit ‘Raven’ story, but its truth and hopeful message are universal. The piece was excerpted from her book, Preston Singletary: Raven and the Box of Daylight with John...

Ricardo Gomez was awarded a $13,000 Washington State Labor Research Grant from the UW Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies for his research, “Life Histories of Labor and Resilience: 25 years of Casa Latina in Seattle.” The Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies also invited Ricardo to become...

Michelle Martin, Ricardo Gomez, and J. Elizabeth Mills, in partnership with Katie Campana at Kent State University, received an IMLS Research in Service to Practice Grant of $421,533 for “Project VOICE (Value-sensitive design of Outcomes Informing Community Engagement) for...

Jevin West was a guest on National Public Radio station KUOW’s, The Record, for the show You can’t believe your eyes. In his segment, Deepfakes, he discussed technology that makes fake images nearly indistinguishable from those that are real. The Washington Post featured Jevin West’s and...

J. Elizabeth Mills, Katie Campana, and Michelle H. Martin will attend the 2019 ALA Annual Conference in Washington D.C. where they will present the talk titled: "Engage, Cultivate, Provide, and Assess: An Outreach Model for Serving All Children and Families." They will unveil their white paper with...

Michelle H. Martin: NPR’s Morning Edition interviewed her for the segment, A Very Happy 50th Birthday To 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'. BBC World News also interviewed her for the article, Very Hungry Caterpillar still being devoured 50 years on.  Will give the Francelia Butler...

Jevin West: gave a talk titled, "Reasoning about data, machines and deep fakes” at the UW Astro Colloquium for the UW Department of Astronomy; was interviewed on NPR’s Marketplace about his whichfaceisreal project; served as a panelist for the "Data, Mapping, and...

Ryan Biava was selected for the 2019 Marshall Memorial Fellowship (MMF). Of the 75 Marshall Memorial Fellows selected, 40 were from Europe and 35 from the United States. Selected fellows engage in 6 months of preparation designed to enhance their understanding of transatlantic relations before...

Jason Yip was awarded $68,833 in a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant titled, “Pilot mobile-wearable just-in-time adaptive intervention (JITAI) for sun safety among children.” He will work with Principal Investigator Jim Huh from the University of Southern California (USC) on this...

Anna Lauren Hoffmann spoke as part of the community panel discussion "Connecting the Dots: Racism and White Supremacy in Algorithms," hosted by UW's Critical Platform Studies Group and organized by Meg Young, Mike Katell, and Pete Krafft. Other panelists included Nikkita Oliver (Seattle...

Anna Lauren Hoffmann was cited in the Slate article Ethics Alone Can’t Fix Big Tech, the USA Today article The problem with AI? Study says it's too white and male, calls for more women, minorities, and the AI Now report Discriminating Systems: Gender, Race, and Power in AI.   Jevin...

Alexis Hiniker was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Award of $175,000 for her research, “Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating Application Software for Meaningful Smartphone Use.”...

Rolf Hapel, the iSchool’s Distinguished Practitioner In Residence (DPIR) is speaking at Computers in Libraries 2019.  With more than 1,100 participants, it is the largest conference of its kind. Rolf will speak on three different program points and topics: Design, Smart Communities...