Batya Friedman presented a keynote at the iConference last week titled “Structure, Scale, and Time: iSchools, Artificial Intelligence, and which Future.” Jochen Scholl had a peer-reviewed book chapter published titled "Digital Government Research: A Diverse Domain" in Y. Charalabidis,...

Dave Hendry and Esther Min (UW School of Public Health/Front and Centered) were awarded a Living Landscapes Incubator grant of $25,000 for Toward the Design of a Sociotechnical Platform for Environmental Reporting, Response, and Action to Support Thriving Communities. Chris Coward, Julie Kientz...

Chirag Shah and Yunhe Feng were interviewed for a UW News article titled, “Google’s ‘CEO’ image search gender bias hasn’t really been fixed.” Yunhe Feng was awarded an iSchool Strategic Research Fund (SRF) Proposal Development grant of $4,000 for Investigating Fairness and...

Bill Howe was included in a list of “leading academic data leaders” by Chief Data Officer Magazine: “CDO Magazine Announces Its 2022 List of Leading Academic Data Leaders.” Katherine Cross published an editorial in Sociological Review's COVID Refigurations issue about how the pandemic...

Jacob O. Wobbrock published a 70-page journal article in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI): Vatavu, R.-D. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2022). Clarifying agreement calculations and analysis for end-user elicitation studies. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 29 (1). Article...

Carole Palmer, Miranda Belarde-Lewis, Sandy Littletree, Nicholas Weber, Christopher Teuton (UW American Indian Studies), and Tami Hohn (UW American Indian Studies) received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation award of $500,000 for Data Services for Indigenous Scholarship and Sovereignty. Christopher...

Karen Fisher and Ayat Nashwan have been awarded a $50,000 Foundational Integrity Research program grant by Facebook for Digital Literacy and Social Media UX of Marginalized Women and Girls in Jordan. Amy J. Ko published a new book titled Critically Conscious Computing: Methods for Secondary...

Aylin Caliskan had two papers published at EMNLP 2021 and presented them at the conference last month: Robert Wolfe and Aylin Caliskan. “Low Frequency Names Exhibit Bias and Overfitting in Contextualizing Language Models.” Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP...

Jackson Brown and Nic Weber had their open-source software project CDP accepted into the Code for Science & Society’s public interest tech incubator. Read more here: https://incubator.codeforscience.org/cohort Tanu Mitra gave a keynote at a workshop organized by Google on “Long-term...

ASIS&T launched Information Matters, for which Chirag Shah is the Founding Editor-in-Chief. Chirag has also been elected as the Chair for SIG-AI. Sandy Littletree was a panelist for an ASIS&T 2021 SIG-HFIS session: “Welcome to Information Science.” ASIS&T Annual Meeting...

Batya Friedman, Ryan Calo (Law School), and Tadayoshi Kohno (Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering) received a gift of $350K from Microsoft Corporation to support the Tech Policy Lab at the University of Washington (2021 - 2022). Of the total amount, $116,666 will come to the...

Tanu Mitra and Shruti Phadke received a Best Paper Honorable Mention award at ACM CSCW 2021: Shruti Phadke, Mattia Samory, Tanu Mitra. 2021. Characterizing Social Imaginaries and Self-Disclosures of Dissonance in Online Conspiracy Discussion Communities. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. Computer...

Anind Dey, Ian Li (Carnegie Mellon University), and Jodi Forlizzi (Carnegie Mellon University) received a 10-year impact award at UbiComp/ISWC 2021 for their paper (published in 2011) “Understanding My Data, Myself: Supporting Self-Reflection with Ubicomp Technologies.” Anind Dey gave the...

Stacey Wedlake and partner organizations presented “’Help is really necessary’: Case study of a technology distribution program for unemployed workers” at DIPRC2021: Digital Inclusion Policy and Research Conference. Stacey Wedlake and research partners from the Seattle Jobs Initiative,...

Julie Kientz (UW HCDE), Jason Yip, and Alexis Hiniker are collaborating on the new Connecting the EdTech Research EcoSystem (CERES) Network, an $11M initiative funded by the Jacobs Foundation. Of the $11M total award to the University of California, Irvine, $500,000 will come to the University of...