Research Updates

Jan. 21, 2020
Ricardo Gomez and collaborators have published the following papers: “Humanitarian organizations' information practices: Procedures and privacy concerns for serving the undocumented” was co-authored by Sara Vannini, Diane Lopez, Sigifredo Mora, Julia Clare Morrison, Julee Tanner, Lena...

Dec. 23, 2019
J. Elizabeth Mills, Kathleen Campana, and Michelle H. Martin published a white paper with the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) titled, "Engage, Cultivate, Provide, and Assess: An Outreach Model for Serving All Children and Families." This white paper is based on the IMLS-funded...

Dec. 16, 2019
Stacey Wedlake participated in a webinar panel for the Office of Family Assistance. The webinar, titled “Adult Literacy and Education: Strategies to Alleviate the Literacy Gap,” provided an overview of the current state of adult literacy and education in the United States and explored how...

Dec. 9, 2019
Katie Davis had an article published in The Library Quarterly, “Using Technology to Support Equity and Inclusion in Youth Library Programming: Current Practices and Future Opportunities.” The article was co-authored by Saba Kawas and colleagues from the University of Maryland. It has been...

Nov. 25, 2019
Joseph T. Tennis and other members of OntōGroup had the following papers accepted to the 2020 Conference of the International Society for Knowledge Organization in Alborg, Denmark: Claire McDonald: “Call us by our name(s): Conflicting representations of the transgender community in...

Nov. 18, 2019
Co-directors Batya Friedman, Ryan Calo, and Yoshi Kohno received a gift of $50K from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation to continue their innovative work with the UW Tech Policy Lab. The UW Tech Policy Lab aims to bridge the gap between policymakers and technologists in the service of wiser,...

Nov. 5, 2019
Jevin West gave an invited lecture for the Indiana University Libraries to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their Herman B Wells Library. The title of his talk was “The Changing Landscape of Scholarly Communication.” Hans Jochen Scholl had a paper titled, “Mapping Potential Impact Areas...

Oct. 21, 2019
Marika Cifor presented a paper at the Memory Lives On: Documenting the HIV/AIDS Epidemic conference at University of California San Francisco on Oct. 5. Her paper is titled, “Archive as Cure: The Promises of Visual AIDS Activist Archiving.” Chirag Shah and Ruoyuan Gao presented a paper...

Oct. 7, 2019
Anna Lauren Hoffmann: Presented as an invited speaker for the 4th Annual Information + Humanities Conference, convened by Penn State's Center for Humanities and Information. Her talk was titled “Beyond Fairness: Data, Violence, and the Limits of Antidiscrimination Discourse.” Gave an...

Sept. 30, 2019
Jevin West gave the following talks: An invited lecture at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany titled, "Gender-based homophily in collaborations across a heterogeneous scholarly landscape." A plenary talk at the meConvention in Frankfurt, Germany...

Sept. 23, 2019
Jacob O. Wobbrock and his (now graduated) 2017 undergraduate Capstone team of Anya Hsu (INFO), Marijn Burger (UW Bothell CS), and Michael Magee (INFO) won the Douglas Engelbart Award for Best Paper at ACM Hypertext & Social Media 2019 (HT’19). The paper titled, “Isolating the Effects of Web...

Sept. 9, 2019
Yolanda Barton was quoted in the GeekWire article, How a VR project documenting Seattle’s music history revealed the risk of a new digital divide. The piece highlights the way she connects Seattle’s tech present to its musically rich past by using virtual and augmented reality for those...

Aug. 19, 2019
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...

Aug. 5, 2019
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...

July 30, 2019
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...