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...

Amanda Menking, Vaibhavi Rangarajan, and Michael Gilbert had a paper titled, “Sharing Small Pieces of the World”: Increasing and Broadening Participation in Wikimedia Commons, accepted to OpenSym 2018. The conference will take place in Paris, France from August 22nd to...

Michelle Martin contributed a chapter to Shapers of American Childhood: Essays on Visionaries from L. Frank Baum to Dr. Spock to J.K. Rowling. This (beautiful) book will be published by McFarland Books and available August 31, 2018. Alexis Hiniker gave an invited talk at the University of...

Wanda Pratt gave a keynote talk for the Hillman Scholars Program in Nursing Innovation at Academy Health 2018. Quinn Dupont was cited in a Yakima Herald news article titled, Yakima Valley enthusiasts see 'digital gold' in bitcoin. Wanda Pratt and her research group, including Sonali R....

Jevin West and Jason Portenoy were awarded $20,000 from the Science History Institute to develop methods for history annotation. The project will use the biotech industry in the San Francisco Bay Area as its case study. Lovenoor Aulck, Kishore Vasan, and Jevin West had a...

Alexis Hiniker is a UW Royalty Research Fund recipient! She was awarded $39,000 to study “Preventing Unintended and Malicious Audio Capture on Android Devices.” Congratulations, Alexis! Also this week, her interview for the Top of the Mind with Julie Rose podcast on BYU Radio aired. The segment...

Katie Davis and Joshua Lawler were awarded a Population Health Innovation Fund grant of $50,000! The award came from the Population Health Initiative and CoMotion to pursue commercialization of the NatureCollections app developed by her group. The app aims to reverse the trend of children spending...

Jaime Snyder was awarded $7,500 by the Group Health Foundation for a presentation about the process, challenges, successes, and key learnings related to her engagement with communities on health equity issues. This was Group Health Foundation’s inaugural Request for Proposals titled, Lessons...