Subletting is a common solution for University of Washington students struggling to cover high rents during breaks. However, finding suitable tenants often proves difficult. This financial pressure led our team to develop a reliable platform that connects UW leaseholders with potential tenants. Using detailed search filters, users can find properties that fit their needs and communicate directly with leaseholders. Simple listing instructions enable leaseholders to easily add their properties and manage tenant requests. Our platform offers an essential solution to the subleasing challenges faced by UW students and also helps those seeking short-term accommodation in the UW area.

The purpose of this project was to research and produce a proposal for implementing the Brian Deer Classification System (BDCS) in the Archives and Library in the Atwood Resource Center at the Anchorage Museum. The intended changes will improve the searchability of library holdings and more respectfully reflect the diverse communities the museum serves and the knowledge that it stewards. This project is in line with the museum’s stated goal to support and implement decolonizing practices.

The Military Legal Resource Collection was adopted by the LoC, originally from the William Winthrop Memorial Library at the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General (JAG)’s Legal Center and School. Over time the collection has grown by building on top of it's legacy information architecture, and thus this project aims to review this collection in its entirety to propose changes for a more uniform, accessible, and comprehensive navigation and user experience for LoC visitors. Additionally, due to the collection's history with JAG, this capstone will be mindful its historical legacy to JAG and make appropriate suggestions with care and respect.

The Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations digital collections in the Law Library of Congress require updated organization and metadata to optimize user experience. This project reviewed these and other FR / CFR collections to identify solutions for improving UX / UI design. The primary deliverable of this Capstone project is a whitepaper report highlighting opportunities for improvement and providing recommendations to enhance accessibility, organization, and navigation in the collections. The project will broaden access to free legal resources that researchers—particularly nonprofits and small organizations—can use to further their work, saving them time and resources.

Stroke can have severe impacts on individuals, including paralysis and speech impairments. To address this, many patients meet with various therapists and complete assigned exercises to improve their mobility and cognitive abilities. However, this is found to be inefficient and unmotivating for stroke patients. To address this, we’ve created inStroketor, a stroke rehabilitation website that provides an individualized and clear rehabilitation progress plan, the ability to walk through rehabilitation exercises step-by-step, and resources to connect with other stroke patients local to you. Through effortless progress monitoring, inStroketor empowers patients and improves their recovery journey in a fun, adoptable manner!

Flickr Foundation provided a design brief and call to action for students to reimagine information preservation, cultural stewardship, and the future of memory work in an open culture setting. Over 10 weeks students assessed and debated how digitized photography collections should be stored, described, and accessed now and in the future. Taking on board critical concerns around social justice, decolonization, generative AI, and sustainability, students crafted new proposals to assist Flickr Foundation’s planning as a “life boat”, “bunker”, and time capsule for other people’s visual memories.Students: Joshua Auvaa, Dorothy Clement, Umme-Kulsum Darugar,Allyson Wang Graylin, Ariba Aswad Janoo, Jainaba Jawara, Eric Von Carlos II Latham, Michael Quoc Pham, Archita Singh, Chun Hin Matthew So, Cecelia Kaulawena Thomas, Olivia Wei, Qinruo Yang, Sonia Yeh, Yunjing Zhang, Xingyuan Zhao

This project was a novel experiment where students researched the intersection of music recording and artificial intelligence. They examined the distribution of music as an information medium, and ways in which music serves purposes beyond just entertainment. Then, students composed music - regardless of any prior experience playing an instrument or musical education - at Odegaard and Area 01 Sound Lab recording studios with Large Language Models (LLMs) as members of their musical ensembles. Students produced three song EPs of their musical compositions with LLMs and released them to Spotify and other streaming services.  This project was sponsored by Fishing Comets Farm, a Seattle-based record label.Students: Xinyu Chang, Kassy Chaput, Brian Chien, Mike Deng, Lily Dong, Kexuan Feng, Lewis Going, Jake Harper, Kunyang Li, Lydia Lin, Siyu Lin, Luna Liu, Maria Mayuzhuo, Shammu Meyyappan, Sloane Shea, Joshua Shin, Danny Yue, Zhuoyi Zhao (Informatics)

With the rise of AI-powered language models, there has been growing interest in their creative and critical capabilities. In this study, we investigated ChatGPT generating and evaluating poetry. We conducted experiments to test ChatGPT's proficiency in categorizing and producing poems in various forms and styles. Our findings reveal distinctive linguistic patterns in ChatGPT-generated poetry, such as the prominent use of the first-person plural (“we,” “us,” “our”), as well as forms and styles that the model can identify with surprising accuracy. Our research contributes to a growing body of literature on AI-powered language models in the field of literature and poetry.

This project was intended to evaluate the existing status of digital course material accessibility to better understand potential points of improvement the iSchool can make. We found that while Canvas site design almost always met the standards recommended by Washington State Policy #188, text materials and video content had areas where they lack. The results of this project will allow the iSchool to better understand where to begin remediating its courses to align with legal accessibility standards and accessibility best practices, ensuring disabled iSchool students get the support they need.