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...

Karen Fisher and collaborators Kate Starbird, Jevin West, Reem Talhouk (Newcastle University, Open Lab), and Eiad Yafi (University of Kuala Lumpur) were just awarded $50,000 from Facebook Crisis Informatics Research Awards. Their proposal, “Data & Design Methods for Supporting Crisis...

Jake Wobbrock and his Ph.D. student Abdullah Ali just returned from the ACM UIST (User Interface Software and Technology) conference in Berlin, Germany, where they had a co-authored paper accepted, along with Affiliate Professor Meredith Ringel Morris. The paper is titled, “Crowdsourcing...

Miranda Belarde-Lewis celebrated the opening of her third exhibition: Preston Singletary: Raven and the Box of Daylight. It is now on view at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma (until October 2019) after which it will travel the country with stops scheduled at the Wichita Art Museum and the...

Amy Ko, Michael Ernst (Principal Investigator; UW CSE), Jennifer Mankoff (UW CSE), and Zachary Tatlock (UW CSE) were awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to study FMitF: Formal Verification of Accessibility. This $738,125 (amount awarded to date) research project begins this January...

Ricardo Gomez has had all of the following published: Based on his work with indigenous communities in Chiapas, Mexico: “Radio, Library and Storytelling: Building an information system for indigenous community development in Chiapas, Mexico” in Electronic Journal of Information...

Joseph T. Tennis is an advisor to an NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant, Level II on “Developing the Data Set of Nineteenth-Century Knowledge.”  This complements his work on the history and ontology of Nineteenth-Century Classification and its relationship to contemporary design...

Jason Yip and collaborators were awarded $15,000 from the Jakobs Foundation, Society of Research in Children Development, for their Young Scholar Exchange and Research Collaboration. The project will use participatory action research and human-computer interaction to create a set of innovative...