Research Updates
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Feb. 9, 2018
Congratulations to iSchoolers who received Best Paper Honorable Mentions from CHI 2018! The papers are: Designing a Reclamation of Body and Health: Cancer Survivor Tattoos as Coping Ritual by Jordan Eschler, Arpita Bhattacharya, and Wanda Pratt “Suddenly, we got to become therapists for...
![Jin Ha Lee](/sites/default/files/2018-02/JinHaLee_headshot-250x.jpg)
Feb. 3, 2018
Jin Ha Lee, Michelle Carter, and Marc Schmalz’s article titled, “It’s Not You, It’s Me: Identity, Self-Verification, and Amazon Reviews,” was accepted by ACM SIGMIS Database: The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems.
![Emma Spiro](/sites/default/files/2018-01/espiro-200x.jpg)
Jan. 26, 2018
Emma Spiro has terrific news to share: She had the following two papers accepted: “Engage Early, Correct More: How Journalists Participate in False Rumors Online during Crisis Events” in Proceedings of the CHI 2018 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems along with Kate...
![Alexis Hiniker](/sites/default/files/2018-01/AlexisHiniker-250x.jpg)
Jan. 22, 2018
Alexis Hiniker had several papers accepted for publication: “Mindless Scrolling and Micro Escapes. Why is Smartphone Use Sometimes so Meaningless?” will appear in Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies along with Kai Lukoff, Cissy Yu, and Julie...
![Jacob O. Wobbrock](/sites/default/files/2018-01/jake_wobbrock_180x180.jpg)
Jan. 12, 2018
Jacob O. Wobbrock had two research papers accepted for CHI 2018 as well as a journal acceptance: Mariakakis, A., Parsi, S., Patel, S.N. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2018). Drunk User Interfaces: Determining blood alcohol level through everyday smartphone tasks. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on...
![Hala Annabi](/sites/default/files/2018-01/hala_annabi300x300.jpg)
Jan. 8, 2018
Congratulations to our iSchool Strategic Research Fund (SRF) recipients this year! Hala Annabi for The Untold Story: The Masked Experiences of Women with Autism Working in IT; Alexis Hiniker for iPads and Early Childhood: Do Interactive Technologies Shrink the “Video Deficit”; Clarita...
![Jason Yip](/sites/default/files/2017-12/yip-200x.jpg)
Dec. 19, 2017
Jason Yip and Julie Kientz will serve as co-PIs for the 2017H2 Mozilla Research Grant awarded to Alexis Hiniker in the amount of $67,572. Their research is titled, Understanding Design Opportunities for In-Home Digital Assistants for Low- and Middle-Income Families. Wanda Pratt and her team had...
![Alexis Hiniker](/sites/default/files/2017-12/AlexisHiniker-250x.jpg)
Dec. 11, 2017
Alexis Hiniker was awarded $67,572 as a recipient of the 2017H2 Mozilla Research Grants for her research Understanding Design Opportunities for In-Home Digital Assistants for Low- and Middle-Income Families. Congratulations, Alexis! Ricardo Gomez has terrific news of both poster and paper...
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Nov. 20, 2017
Bill Howe traveled to give talks and was featured by govtech.com: As part of his work with Data Responsibly, he was interviewed by MetroLab’s Executive Director Ben Levine for the govtech.com article titled University Researchers Use 'Fake' Data for Social Good. He, along with Julia...
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Nov. 9, 2017
Joe Janes gave a lecture at the National Archives in Washington D.C. about his book titled, Documents That Changed the Way We Live. This was part of the McGowan Theater Book Lecture Series. His talk is available on youtube. Jessica Hullman gave a Distinguished Lecture at Northwestern...
![Batya Friedman](/sites/default/files/2017-11/batya-200x.jpg)
Nov. 6, 2017
Batya Friedman has terrific news to share: Along with Ryan Calo and Tadayoshi Kohno, received a three-year grant for 1 million dollars from the MacArthur Foundation to support on-going work at the UW Tech Policy Lab, with an emphasis on activities at the intersection of tech policy and...
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Oct. 27, 2017
Susan Hildreth gave the keynote address for the Friends of the Truckee, California Public Library. Her talk titled, Public Libraries of the Future, helped kick-off an initiative to build a new branch library. It was held at the Emigrant Trail Museum in Donner Memorial State Park. Anna Lauren...
![Michelle Martin](/sites/default/files/2017-10/martin_michelle-250x.jpg)
Oct. 22, 2017
Michelle Martin has lots of news to share: Along with Liz Mills and Katie Campana, she received two acceptances to ALISE 2018 that include: Paper: “Mind the Gap: Bringing Research Methods out of the Classroom and into Everyday Youth Services to Build Research Literacy.” Poster:...
![Ian King](/sites/default/files/2017-10/IanKing180.jpg)
Oct. 13, 2017
Ian S. King gave an invited talk at the Vintage Computer Festival in Berlin. His talk titled, “Computer History From Below: Reading Human Values in Artifacts”, connected his hands-on experiences as a founder of the Living Computer Museum with the theoretical studies for his dissertation. He was...
Oct. 7, 2017
Anna Hoffmann has terrific publication news that include two book chapters and one article: Spaces for the Future: A Companion to Philosophy of Technology (edited by Joseph Pitt and Ashley Shew) included her chapter, “Data, technology and gender: Thinking about (and from) trans lives” as...