Karen Fisher and Ayat Nashwan have been awarded a $50,000 Foundational Integrity Research program grant by Facebook for Digital Literacy and Social Media UX of Marginalized Women and Girls in Jordan. Amy J. Ko published a new book titled Critically Conscious Computing: Methods for Secondary...

Aylin Caliskan had two papers published at EMNLP 2021 and presented them at the conference last month: Robert Wolfe and Aylin Caliskan. “Low Frequency Names Exhibit Bias and Overfitting in Contextualizing Language Models.” Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP...

Jackson Brown and Nic Weber had their open-source software project CDP accepted into the Code for Science & Society’s public interest tech incubator. Read more here: https://incubator.codeforscience.org/cohort Tanu Mitra gave a keynote at a workshop organized by Google on “Long-term...

ASIS&T launched Information Matters, for which Chirag Shah is the Founding Editor-in-Chief. Chirag has also been elected as the Chair for SIG-AI. Sandy Littletree was a panelist for an ASIS&T 2021 SIG-HFIS session: “Welcome to Information Science.” ASIS&T Annual Meeting...

Batya Friedman, Ryan Calo (Law School), and Tadayoshi Kohno (Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering) received a gift of $350K from Microsoft Corporation to support the Tech Policy Lab at the University of Washington (2021 - 2022). Of the total amount, $116,666 will come to the...

Tanu Mitra and Shruti Phadke received a Best Paper Honorable Mention award at ACM CSCW 2021: Shruti Phadke, Mattia Samory, Tanu Mitra. 2021. Characterizing Social Imaginaries and Self-Disclosures of Dissonance in Online Conspiracy Discussion Communities. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. Computer...

Anind Dey, Ian Li (Carnegie Mellon University), and Jodi Forlizzi (Carnegie Mellon University) received a 10-year impact award at UbiComp/ISWC 2021 for their paper (published in 2011) “Understanding My Data, Myself: Supporting Self-Reflection with Ubicomp Technologies.” Anind Dey gave the...

Stacey Wedlake and partner organizations presented “’Help is really necessary’: Case study of a technology distribution program for unemployed workers” at DIPRC2021: Digital Inclusion Policy and Research Conference. Stacey Wedlake and research partners from the Seattle Jobs Initiative,...

Julie Kientz (UW HCDE), Jason Yip, and Alexis Hiniker are collaborating on the new Connecting the EdTech Research EcoSystem (CERES) Network, an $11M initiative funded by the Jacobs Foundation. Of the $11M total award to the University of California, Irvine, $500,000 will come to the University of...

Under the title "Digital Government Research — Then, Now, and in Years to Come,” Hans Jochen Scholl gave the keynote speech at the EGOV-CeDEM-ePart conference held at the University of Granada, Spain. The conference was held in a hybrid format with about 40 attendees on...

Lisa Dirks has received a four-year Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (Parent F31-Diversity) for Co-designing a Technology-based Health Research Results Dissemination Tool with AIAN People....

Alexis Hiniker and colleagues from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor have been awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Project (R01) grant of $85,071 for Technology Use and Emerging Executive Functioning in Early Childhood. Yim Register and Emma Spiro had their paper accepted for...

Bill Howe has been awarded a $200,000 grant by Cisco Systems, Inc. for Ethical AI in the Public Sector: Towards A Semi-Synthetic Data Fabric for AI Evaluation. Chris Coward and Jin Ha Lee have been awarded an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants for...

Kate Starbird, Emma Spiro, and Jevin West have been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) grant of $2.25M for their project Building Rapid-Response Frameworks to Support Multi-Stakeholder Collaborations for Mitigating Online Disinformation. Chirag...

Jason Yip, along with colleagues from the University of Amsterdam and the University of the Witwatersrand, was awarded a CDN $50,000 grant by CIFAR and the Jacobs Foundation for Understanding socioeconomic disparities in education through the lens of children’s self-perceptions. Alexis...