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...

Jacob O. Wobbrock was ranked #1 out of the top 100 people in Human-Computer Interaction on the AMiner Most Influential Scholar Annual List for influence over the 2007-2017 decade. According to AMiner, “the list is conferred in recognition of outstanding technical achievements with lasting...

Jaime Snyder was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award totaling $549,966. In her 5-year critical design study, titled Visually Encoding Personal Data for Vulnerable Populations, she will look at alternatives to the design of...

Peter Krafft will join the faculty of the Oxford Internet Institute, the Social Sciences Division, of the University of Oxford this June. Read more in its blog post, New Research Fellow Joins the Oxford Internet Institute. Congratulations, Peter! TASCHA’s (Technology and Social Change Group)...

Jacob Wobbrock, along with several of his students, had the following three papers accepted to CHI 2019, to be held in Glasgow, Scotland: Mingrui Ray Zhang, Zhai, S. and Jacob Wobbrock (2019). “Text entry throughput: Towards unifying speed and accuracy in a single performance metric.”...

Amy Ko testified at the public hearing on Washington Senate bill 5088, which would require all Washington state public high schools to offer a Computer Science class. She wrote a blog about his experience on medium.com Bits and Behavior in the article CS education policymaking: how a (state) bill...

Annie Searle was interviewed by KIRO-TV for the story City of Sammamish: City’s computer system under ransomware attack. Her interview is featured in the second of the three videos.   Andy Ko testified at the public hearing on Washington Senate bill 5088,...

Jochen Scholl presented the paper titled, "Situational Awareness during a Catastrophic Incident: Insights from the CR16 Exercise”, at the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-52). The paper was co-authored with iSchool students Karyn Hubbel and Jeffrey G. Leonard. The...

Miranda Belarde-Lewis was quoted in the KUOW story The Pacific Northwest was already internationally recognized for glass art. Then came Preston Singletary. Amanda Menking, Ingrid Erickson, and Wanda Pratt had their paper “People Who Can Take It: How Women Wikipedians Negotiate Safety”...

Sonali R. Mishra, Predrag Klasnja, John MacDuffie Woodburn, Eric Hekler, Larsson Omberg, Michael Kellen, and Lara Mangravite had their paper “Supporting Coping with Parkinson’s Disease Through Self Tracking” accepted to CHI 2019. Miranda Belarde-Lewis: Published an article titled,...

Jochen Scholl was invited and conducted a three-day doctoral research seminar/workshop on “Digital Government” at the Department of Information Systems and Computer Science at the Politechnical University of Valencia, Spain. The seminar was attended by students and faculty from Spain, Ecuador,...

Wanda Pratt and Pedja Klasnja (iSchool alumnus) had their paper titled Healthcare in the Pocket: Mapping the Space of Mobile-Phone Health Interventions honored by the Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics in its special anniversary editorial. In this issue, it lists papers that have had a...