Recommended Reads for Equity is a collection of equity-, diversity-, and inclusion-focused books curated by members of the University of Washington community. The collection grows based on book recommendations that create an evolving representation of our community’s collective and individual experiences. Our work in organization, outreach, and accessibility revitalized focus on the project and re-engaged the UW community. We re-designed the webpage, formalized protocols, promoted and expanded the collection, and created a repository of community booktalks. Ultimately, this collection builds connections between community members by bridging themes of equity, diversity, and inclusion in books through sharing meaningful personal experiences.

The Caltech Archives hold a heterogeneous audio collection consisting of over 1300 cassettes, digital audio tapes (DATs), and CDs with content from 1932-2004 that has been slowly degrading while trapped in the archive. This project’s aim was to answer how this collection could be preserved and made more accessible to the community. It involved checking the physical items, streamlining the metadata in OpenRefine and reimporting it into ArchiveSpace as a resource record. This will allow the archive staff to move forward with preserving the audio through digitization and transcriptions that can be linked to the resource record for further accessibility.

Landing a good job and having a well-planned career path is necessary for every college student or graduate. While during this process, connecting with seniors or networking plays an important role to figure out the career path. But recently, some discovered facts show that many students don’t realize the value of networking and don’t know how to manage the networking process. This project aims to create a holistic user evaluated digital experience that could improve students’ experience and journey of choosing from their career options and appropriating steps they should take to reach their goals.

Stroke survivors need constant and effective rehabilitation to restore their life to normal, but not everyone can afford the time and money to visit doctors or care centers. Building a VR rehabilitation product, we bring the medical professionals to patients at home, monitoring their rehabilitation data, connecting doctors and patients online, and providing dynamic advice to speed up their rehabilitation progress. The product makes their rehab experience cheaper and more efficient with AI monitored exercises. With our project, our sponsor Kaspect can work on combining clinical side experience with patient side and begin experimenting with this new experience

The goal for this project was to envision possibilities for reorganizing the fixtures and collection of the Roosevelt library to make it a more dynamic space. Though the project was significantly impacted by COVID-19, weeding between January and March reduced the collection by just over 1,000 volumes. Recommendations for improving the library’s overall flexibility and accessibility include completing the weeding work, purchasing new shelving units on casters, and reorganizing the book collection to make it more accessible. Potential impacts include increased library use, greater campus unity, and readiness for a future as a 1:1 school.

Employee scheduling is a crucial task for most organizations regardless of their size. Currently, the Public Services team at SPL manually prepares the schedules of their employees using Microsoft Excel and Sharepoint. This manual process takes a lot of time and effort to create as well as manage schedules. We conducted research to build a flexible solution providing user-friendly interface and easy customizations. This solution would enable the scheduling team to be agile in creating and changing schedules as per the library branches’ requirements, thus enabling resource optimization and quick decision making.

AO3 is a nonprofit run fanwork database with a staff of volunteers organized into committees. AO3 Support frequently receives questions about how to perform basic site functions already answered in FAQs. Video tutorials may make it easier for users to find answers to their questions. However, there are many aspects of the video medium which differ from text. I researched software and created and tested a process for creating screencasts so that AO3 Docs volunteers can create quality tutorials without having to reinvent the wheel.

Seattle Children’s Hospital offers many resources that can make a significant difference in the quality of life for patient families. Ranging from food banks, to gas reimbursement, to unit food delivery, these critical resources are hidden within the information architecture of their website. Our mission is to centralize available resources so families can easily find resources relevant to their situations. The addition of a family resources tab allows families to quickly and easily discover, identify, and utilize the resources available.

The food pantry program within the Seattle Children’s Hospital offers food to some outpatients and any inpatients families for free. Currently, the staff needs to make updates manually and perform weekly inventory updates based on food availability. A transition from the current physical order form to an online form would benefit from automatic form rendering based on food availability in the pantry and easier food inventory tracking. Additionally, an online application allows for more customizations, such as generating the form in a patient’s native language. Our mission is to make the ordering process as seamless and intuitive as possible.

To ensure the transparency and reproducibility of scientific discoveries, more and more journals have adopted data policies to encourage data sharing. Many previous studies have investigated the prevalence of journal data policies (JDPs) in certain disciplines. However, it is still unclear 1) how the prevalence of JDPs has changed over time and varied by discipline; and 2) when trying to interpret JDPs, what aspects researchers are most concerned about. This capstone project reviewed 27 relevant publications and built a toolkit that contains a dataset and a meta-analysis report so users can easily understand the development of JDPs.