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

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 Gender and Race in COVID-19: A Critical Information and Data Studies Approach to Pandemic Data, COVID Dashboards, and Discourses of Equity and Justice.
Maria Garrido for Blending/Merging Research and STEM Education for Gender-Inclusive Technology Development in Ghana.
Tanu Mitra for Designing Systems to Signal Credibility.
Chirag Shah for Responsible AI Applications and Experiences (RAISE).

Jevin West and Benjamin M. Althouse were awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant of $7,840,250 for West African Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases. Of the total award, $265,749 will come to the iSchool.

Jin Ha Lee had a paper accepted to CHI 2021: “Armed in ARMY: A case study of how BTS fans successfully collaborated to #MatchAMillion for Black Lives Matter.” The paper was co-authored with So Yeon Park, Nicole Santero, and Blair Kaneshiro.

Chris Holstrom and Joseph T. Tennis had the following paper accepted to iConference 2021: "Studying Subject Ontogeny at Scale in a Polyhierarchical Indexing Language." The paper presents initial findings from research funded by the iSchool Strategic Research Fund.

Chris Jowaisas and Bree Norlander’s poster, “E-rate Funding and Libraries: Preliminary Analysis of Trends Post-Modernization,” was accepted to iConference 2021.

Annie Searle’s latest column for the Risk Universe Newsletter on residual risk after the election was published last week.

Jason Young and Kurtis Heimerl were featured in a Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering news article titled, “UW researchers work to decrease the digital divide in the Puget Sound region.”

Michelle H. Martin:

in collaboration with Milly Romeijn-Stout, Emily Beran, Jennifer Stetson, Jamie Poirier, Justine Rea, Rea Harris, Nicole Breiner, Austin Foglesong, Jennifer Ching, Chelsea Riddle, and Chelsea Davies, published “Harry Potter in the 21^st Century: Leveraging Problematic Fiction to Infuse Social Justice into LIS Curriculum” in the December issue of ALKI: The Washington Library Association Journal.
wrote the inaugural piece for the Anti-Racism, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion column in the same issue: “Checking Your Privilege.”
was interviewed for a KQED article on diversifying collections: “Diversifying Your Classroom Book Collections? Avoid These 7 Pitfalls.”

Chirag Shah published an article in Aslib Journal of Information Management titled, “Understanding the spread of prevention and cessation messages on social media for substance use in youth.” The article was co-authored with Soumik Mandal, Stephanie Peña-Alves, Michael L. Hecht, Shannon D. Glenn, Anne E. Ray, and Kathryn Greene.

Erin Beneteau:

had an article published in CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing titled, “’Eavesdropping': An Information Source for Inpatients.” The article was co-authored with Shefali Haldar, Sonali R. Mishra (iSchool PhD alum), and Wanda Pratt.
presented early findings on research she conducted at Microsoft Research this summer at the International ALS/MND Associations Allied Professionals Conference. The title of her presentation was "Benefits and Barriers to Telehealth Video Conferencing for Adults who use AAC."

Adam Moore’s article, “Taxation, Forced Labor, and Theft: Why Taxation is 'On a Par' with Forced Labor,” was published in the Southern Journal of Philosophy. The SJP has an acceptance rate of 12%, publishes 5 issues per year, publishes ~30 articles per year, and has a H-index of 20.

Jin Ha Lee’s paper reporting findings from the VR project with Washington State Library has been accepted to Journal of Documentation: “Perceptions and experiences of Virtual Reality in public libraries.” The paper was co-authored with Negin Dahya, Mx WE King, Kung Jin Lee.

Miranda Belarde-Lewis:

was featured on the Tribal Nations page of UW in Your Community that gets sent to WA state legislators to show impact of research and work at UW.
participated on the panel, "Embracing a Complicated Relationship: Indigenous Museum Work," for the Neubeauer Collegium Director's Lecture at the University of Chicago. You can watch a recording of the panel discussion here.

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

How do Alexa and Siri affect kids? iSchool's Hiniker investigates

Friday, January 8, 2021

Many families have unwittingly been taking part in a huge social experiment. They’ve invited conversational agents such as Siri and Alexa into their homes, but how do these new technologies affect children’s social development? The answer to that is one big “shrug” emoji. Backed by a prestigious fellowship, the UW Information School’s...

Researchers work to bridge digital divide in Tacoma

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic has shown how internet access has become a crucial lifeline for many. It has also highlighted a key facet of Jason Young’s research at the Information School: the gap between those who have broadband internet access and those who don’t. A UW research team that includes Young, an Information School senior research...

2 iSchool students earn honorable mentions in Computing Research Association awards

Monday, December 21, 2020

When the Computing Research Association announced its recipients for the 2021 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards, two iSchool students were excited to see their names among the honorable mentions. The iSchool nominees, Emily Bascom and Jenny Liang, faced a competitive group of students who have been involved in multiple research...

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