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...

Emma Spiro served as a keynote speaker at the 2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining. Her talk was titled Understanding Social Behavior During Crisis Events using Digital Traces. The conference took place in Barcelona, Spain. Alexis Hiniker and...

Negin Dahya, Jessica Luke, Jason Yip, Jin Ha Lee, and Ian Chapman were awarded an Institute of Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grant (IMLS-NLG-L) in the amount of $89,000! The title of their research project is “Co-Creating Concept Art and Stories for Virtual Reality (VR):...

Amy Ko and Greg Nelson won a best paper award at the ACM International Computing Education Research conference (ICER) 2018 for their paper titled, “On Use of Theory in Computing Education Research.” There were two best paper awards and theirs was for “taking risks and venturing into the...

Alexis Hiniker has been quoted in numerous articles citing the original paper Why Doesn’t It Work? Voice-Driven Interfaces and Young Children’s Communication Repair Strategies, by Yi Cheng, Kate Yen, Yeqi Chen, Sijin Chen and Alexis Hiniker, published in the Proceedings of the 17th Annual ACM...

Annie Searle’s book titled, Risk Reconsidered, was published by Tautegory Press on July 31, 2018. In her collection of essays she tackles the challenges of the last two decades’ worth of international and domestic crises. The book includes 20 articles on operational risk first...

Hyerim Cho, Thomas Disher, Wan-Chen Lee, Stephen Keating, and Jin Ha Lee had their paper “Facet Analysis of Anime Genres: the challenges of defining genre information for popular cultural objects” accepted to Knowledge Organization. Alexis Hiniker’s...

David Levy was featured in Zeit Online in the article Tech people for the first time admit: we have a real problem. The article addresses whether smartphones can be addictive. The English translation will be available soon. In the meantime, try using Google Translate. Li Zeng received...

Ian S. King’s paper titled Science fiction as a value scenario for historical technology was published online in the journal Ethics & Information Technology. It will also appear in a printed special edition of the journal. This week Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom were interviewed by Bill...