David Levy was featured in Zeit Online in the article Tech people for the first time admit: we have a real problem. The article addresses whether smartphones can be addictive. The English translation will be available soon. In the meantime, try using Google Translate. Li Zeng received...

Ian S. King’s paper titled Science fiction as a value scenario for historical technology was published online in the journal Ethics & Information Technology. It will also appear in a printed special edition of the journal. This week Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom were interviewed by Bill...

Amanda Menking, Vaibhavi Rangarajan, and Michael Gilbert had a paper titled, “Sharing Small Pieces of the World”: Increasing and Broadening Participation in Wikimedia Commons, accepted to OpenSym 2018. The conference will take place in Paris, France from August 22nd to...

Michelle Martin contributed a chapter to Shapers of American Childhood: Essays on Visionaries from L. Frank Baum to Dr. Spock to J.K. Rowling. This (beautiful) book will be published by McFarland Books and available August 31, 2018. Alexis Hiniker gave an invited talk at the University of...

Wanda Pratt gave a keynote talk for the Hillman Scholars Program in Nursing Innovation at Academy Health 2018. Quinn Dupont was cited in a Yakima Herald news article titled, Yakima Valley enthusiasts see 'digital gold' in bitcoin. Wanda Pratt and her research group, including Sonali R....

Jevin West and Jason Portenoy were awarded $20,000 from the Science History Institute to develop methods for history annotation. The project will use the biotech industry in the San Francisco Bay Area as its case study. Lovenoor Aulck, Kishore Vasan, and Jevin West had a...

Alexis Hiniker is a UW Royalty Research Fund recipient! She was awarded $39,000 to study “Preventing Unintended and Malicious Audio Capture on Android Devices.” Congratulations, Alexis! Also this week, her interview for the Top of the Mind with Julie Rose podcast on BYU Radio aired. The segment...

Katie Davis and Joshua Lawler were awarded a Population Health Innovation Fund grant of $50,000! The award came from the Population Health Initiative and CoMotion to pursue commercialization of the NatureCollections app developed by her group. The app aims to reverse the trend of children spending...

Jaime Snyder was awarded $7,500 by the Group Health Foundation for a presentation about the process, challenges, successes, and key learnings related to her engagement with communities on health equity issues. This was Group Health Foundation’s inaugural Request for Proposals titled, Lessons...

Jevin D. West was awarded $110,000 from JSTOR to continue his research on improving access to scholarly literature. He also gave one of the keynote presentations at the "Future of Facts in a 'Post-Truth’ World” meeting held at the The Phillips Collection Museum in Washington DC. This...

Quinn DuPont will give an invited lecture at the University of Chicago's Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science on Friday, May 18 titled, "Origins of the Encrypted Information Society (1945-2013)." Later this month he will also participate in a panel presentation titled, "The...

Jake Wobbrock presented to about 150 people at the Puget Sound SIGCHI local chapter a talk entitled, “Ability-Based Design: Making Technologies Match All People’s Abilities and Context.” The event was the best attended in the Puget Sound SIGCHI speaker series to-date. It was held in the UW...

Katie Davis had two papers accepted and appeared on an education podcast: “Using digital badges to promote student agency and identity in science learning” will appear in Proceedings of the Connected Learning Summit (CLS ’18) along with Caroline Pitt, Adam Bell, and Ada Kim....

The iSchool has not just one, but two recipients of the IMLS 2018 National Leadership Grants for Libraries! Jason Yip and Jin Ha Lee were awarded $353,071 for “Supporting Intergenerational Participatory Design Groups for Librarians and Youth for Design Thinking Around Digital...

Jessica Hullman has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER award. The total amount of the award will be $523,516. Her project CAREER: Enhancing Critical Reflection on Data by Integrating Users’ Expectations in Visualization Interaction begins June 1, 2018 and ends May 31, 2023....