Jason Young was interviewed about his work with the Tacoma Cooperative Network for a UW Daily article titled, “UW researchers work to decrease digital divide.” Jacob O. Wobbrock was interviewed for a UW Daily article titled, “UW iSchool professor begins work on an ability-based design...

Jacob O. Wobbrock had three papers accepted to CHI 2021: Zhang, M.R., Wang, R., Xu, X., Li, Q., Sharif, A. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2021). “Voicemoji: Emoji entry using voice for visually impaired people.” Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21)....

Hala Annabi’s Autism @ Work Playbook was highlighted in SHRM: “Inclusive Strategies Create a 'More Universal Workplace.'” Megan Finn and Stacey Wedlake were awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) RAPID grant of $91,013 for COVID Data Infrastructure Builders: Creating Resilient and...

Megan Finn received a UW Royalty Research Fund award of $39,984 for Inconvenient Data. Marika Cifor and Ricardo Gomez received a UW Royalty Research Fund award of $39,975 for Sanctuary laws are not optional: Examining immigration information flows to monitor law enforcement compliance with...

Congratulations to our iSchool Strategic Research Fund (SRF) recipients this year! Katie Davis for Tracking the Long-term Effects of COVID-19 on Teens’ Wellbeing. Anna Lauren Hoffmann, Marika Cifor, Megan Finn, and Tonia Sutherland for Representing...

Alexis Hiniker has received a 165,000 CHF ($182,000 USD) award from the Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Program for Designing Digital Assistants for Prosocial Communication. The research fellowship program is open to early- and mid-career researchers from all scholarly...

Katie Davis and Howard Gardner (Harvard) co-authored a Seattle Times op-ed piece titled, “The ‘app generation’ meets the pandemic.” The article highlighted research conducted by Davis, Caroline Pitt, and Ari Hock (UW COE). Sandy Littletree served as one of...

Ricardo Gomez is one of the faculty leaders for the UW Center for Human Rights new program: Immigrant Rights Observatory. The Observatory uses public records research and community partnerships to monitor implementation of and compliance with state laws protecting immigrant rights. Recent work by...

Michelle H. Martin’s post about The Camping Trip by Jennifer K. Mann was published on Calling Caldecott, the blog of The Horn Book Magazine. Marika Cifor gave an invited talk titled “An Archival Cure: Remedy, Care, and Curation of HIV-Positive Artists' Records with the Visual AIDS Archive...

Michelle H. Martin’s Read-a-Rama program received a $25,000 grant from the Community Foundation of Snohomish County to train Sno-Isle Librarians and teachers in the surrounding schools on implementing Camp Read-a-Rama in their libraries and schools. Anna Lauren Hoffmann's work was cited in the...

Tanu Mitra, in collaboration with PesaCheck, a fact-checking organization in East Africa, has been awarded a Fact-Checking Innovation Initiative grant by the Poynter Institute for Auditing Social Media for Misinformation. The total award amount is $99,707, of which $54,707 will come to the...

Beginning in 2021, J. Elizabeth Mills and Dr. Kathleen Campana (Kent State) will conduct an evaluation of the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Read, Baby, Read initiative. Read, Baby, Read aims to increase the availability of early education for families in Philadelphia’s low-income communities...

Nicole Kuhn will present “Developing Indigenous Community-Based Participatory Design Methods to Understand Tribal Communities’ Use of Information Technologies for Addressing Critical Health Needs” as part of the American Indian & Indigenous Studies (AIIS) Scholars Program showcase on...

Jacob O. Wobbrock received funding from the Google Award for Inclusion Research program in the amount of $60K for The Ability-Based Design Mobile Toolkit: Enabling Accessible Mobile Interactions through Advanced Sensing and Modeling. Karen Fisher and Yacine Ghamri-Doudane (University of La...

Hans Jochen Scholl was interviewed for an episode of Disaster Zone in which he talked about his research on Disaster Information Management Systems. The Disaster Zone podcast is followed by a large practitioner community and focuses on all facets of disasters; the before, during and after of events...