Research

Impact Stories

Contemplative Practices

A technologist by training, David Levy’s scholarship examines how individuals can live healthy, creative, reflective, and productive lives in an always-on, information-saturated world. His body of work includes two books — Scrolling...

TASCHA, the Technology and Social Change Group

In 1999, TASCHA (then the Center for Internet Studies) was founded to unite and mobilize a multidisciplinary network of researchers, practitioners, and policy experts to explore the design, use, and effects of information and communication...

Value Sensitive Design

Value Sensitive Design (VSD) is a theoretically grounded approach to the design of technology that accounts for human values in a principled and comprehensive manner throughout the design process. Pioneered by UW professors with landmark studies on...

Research Updates

UW Continuum College created an online toolbox for effective online teaching, based on and illustrated by the practice of Ricardo Gomez in LIS 570: Research, Assessment and Design. Each of the Seven Principles for Effective Teaching includes an explanation and examples drawn from his teaching practice:

Principle #1 - Communicate with Your Learners (17 min)
Principle #2 - Nurture a Learning Community (18 min)
Principle #3 - Encourage Active Learning (17 min)
Principles #4 & #5 - Be Present & Get Organized (18 min)
Principle #6 - Hold High Standards (18 min)
Principle #7 - Put People First (24 min)

Ricardo Gomez also published two papers:

“Mind the Five Card game: Participatory games to strengthen information practices and privacy protections of migrants” in the International Journal of Information, Diversity & Inclusion. The paper was coauthored with Bryce Clayton Newell and Sara Vannini.
“The information practices and politics of migrant-aid work in the US-Mexico borderlands” in the journal The Information Society. The paper was coauthored with Bryce Clayton Newell and Sara Vannini.

Hala Annabi, Michelle H. Martin, Milly Romeijn-Stout, Christine Moeller (incoming PhD student), and Jill Locke (UW Speech & Hearing Sciences) received an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program award of $476,568 for Autism-Ready Libraries: Early Literacy Services for Autistic Children and Their Families. This project will conduct research aimed to improve libraries' capacity to include children with autism and their families in early literacy programming.

Chris Jowaisas and Bree Norlander received an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program award of $100,000 for Leveraging Use of Open Data by Public Library Staff for Community Benefit. This project will investigate ways in which public library staff can gain a better understanding of their local community using open data.

Karen Fisher was awarded an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Laura Bush 21^st Century Librarian Program grant of $498,081 for Trauma in the Library: Symptoms of PTSD Among Staff and Methods for Ensuring Trauma-Informed Care. This project will research whether public library staff experience symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder due to incidents in the workplace.

Katie Davis, Chris Coward, Mega Subramaniam (University of Maryland), and Kelly Hoffman (University of Maryland) were awarded an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Laura Bush 21^st Century Librarian Program grant of $427,062 for Connecting Rural and Small Libraries to Connected Learning. This project will scale the ConnectedLib Toolkit to support public librarians serving teens in small and rural libraries, and indirectly the young adult patrons who will benefit from the librarian's transformed practices. Of the total award, $284,259 will come to the iSchool.

Jin Ha Lee had the following papers accepted to the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2020):

“How music fans shape commercial music services: a case study of BTS and ARMY.” The paper was coauthored with Anh Thu Nguyen.
“User perceptions underlying social music behavior.” The paper was coauthored with Louis Spinelli and Josephine Lau.

Ron Johnson was quoted in several articles in The Kitsap Sun about teleworking and internet access:

“These Kitsap residents wanted fiber optic internet. Here's how they got it.”
“How a Kitsap water utility is now filling the county with ultrafast internet.”
“New normal: Why telecommuting in Kitsap isn't going anywhere even after pandemic ends.”

More Research Updates

Research Centers and Groups

ACE Lab

Jacob O. Wobbrock, Director

ACE (Accessible Computing Experiences) Lab is a group of human-computer interaction (HCI) researchers interested in mobile and accessible design.

Center for an Informed Public

Jevin West, Director

Resisting strategic misinformation, promoting an informed society, and strengthening democratic discourse.

Code & Cognition Lab

Amy J. Ko, Director

The C&C Lab studies the human aspects of programming.

DataLab

Multiple iSchool Faculty

The DataLab is the nexus for research on Data Science and Analytics at the UW iSchool.

Digital Youth Lab

Katie Davis, Director

Digital Youth explores the interactions of young people with digital information and technology.

DUB Group (design:use:build)

Multiple Departments

DUB is an alliance of faculty and students across the UW exploring Human-Computer Interaction and Design.

Gamer Group

Jin Ha Lee, Director

The GAMER Group explores new ideas and approaches for organizing and accessing to video games and interactive media.

iMed

Wanda Pratt, Director

iMed develops and evaluates IT to help people find, share, manage, and use information as it relates to healthcare.

Indigenous Information Research Group

Cheryl Metoyer, Director

IIRG research lies at the intersection of technology, information policy, and Indigenous issues.

Knowledge Organization

Joseph T. Tennis, Director

KO is concerned with the processes of organizing and representing documents that societies see as worthy of preserving.

Social Media Lab

Emma Spiro and Kate Starbird, Co-Directors

SoMe Lab at UW is a nexus for research and collaboration on social media issues.

Technology & Social Change Group

Christopher Coward, Director

TASCHA explores the design, use and effects of ICTs in communities facing social and economic challenges.

The User Empowerment Lab

Alexis Hiniker, Director

The User Empowerment Lab studies the ways in which digital technologies make life worse for their users.

Value Sensitive Design Lab

Batya Friedman and David Hendry, Co-Directors

VSD is an approach to technology design that accounts for human values in a principled and systematic manner.

News

IMLS awards $1.5 million to iSchool-led research projects

Friday, July 31, 2020

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has awarded a total of more than $1.5 million in funding for four projects led by the University of Washington Information School. The projects span several initiatives to benefit libraries and their users: making libraries more inclusive for children with autism, using open data to...

Seattle teacher adopts Center for an Informed Public's mission with 'MisinfoDay Jr.'

Thursday, July 30, 2020

Shawn Lee and his AP U.S. History students at Seattle’s Ballard High School were gearing up to attend MisinfoDay at the University of Washington in March when concerns over the coronavirus forced the Center for an Informed Public to rethink its planned in-person event. “We were all ramped up and ready,” Lee said in a recent interview...

New way to dig into data on access to information

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Meaningful access to information around the world can be studied at a national and regional level by exploring trends in key indicators related to Connectivity, Freedom, and Gender Equity, according to researchers at the Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) at the University of Washington Information School. A new set of...

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