Specializations
- Organization and Preservation of Multimedia and Interactive Media
- Play, Learning, and Creativity Support
- Cultural Knowledge and Digital Heritage
Research Areas
Biography
Michele Newman is a PhD candidate in the Information School at the University of Washington advised by Dr. Jin Ha Lee and Dr. Jason Yip. Broadly, her research explores how communities produce, organize, and preserve cultural knowledge through interactive media, ranging from from creativity support tools to video games. Drawing on frameworks from Library & Information Science as well as Human–Computer Interaction, her work aims to reframe digital interactive environments not just as tools for expression, but as lasting knowledge infrastructures.
Education
- MLIS, Library and Information Science, University of Denver, 2022
- MM, Music Theory, Indiana University, 2019
- BM, Music Composition and Theory (Double Major), University of North Texas, 2017
Publications and Contributions
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Conference ProceedingExploring the Collaborative Co-Creation Process with AI: A Case Study in Novice Music Production (2025)Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, pp. 1298-1312
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CurriculaThe Misinformation Play Pack (2025)
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Report
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Conference PaperHuman-AI music process: a dataset of AI-supported songwriting processes from the AI song contest. (2024)Proceedings of the 25th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference
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Conference PaperMediating Culture: Cultivating Socio-cultural Understanding of AI in Children through Participatory Design (2024)Designing Interactive Systems Conference, pp. 1805-1822
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Conference PaperMediating Culture: Cultivating Socio-cultural Understanding of AI in Children through Participatory Design (2024)Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '24), pp. 1805-1822
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Conference PaperMediating culture: Cultivating socio-cultural understanding of AI in children through participatory design (2024)Proceedings of ACM Designing Interactive Systems, pp. 1805 - 1822
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Journal Article, Academic JournalParticipatory Media and Game Preservation: A Taxonomy of YouTube Game‐Related Content (2024)Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 61(1), pp. 277-289, ISBN/ISSN: 2373-9231
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Conference PaperParticipatory media and game preservation: a taxonomy of Youtube game-related content. (2024)Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 61(1), pp. 277-289
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Conference PaperPurposeful play: Evaluation and co-design of casual music creation applications with children (2024)Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference
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Conference PaperPurposeful play: evaluation and co-design of casual music creation applications with children. (2024)Proceedings of the 25th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference
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Conference Paper
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Journal Article, Academic JournalYou Are Tilted!: Leveraging Tabletop Gaming to Manage Tilt and Strengthen Team Dynamics in Esports (2024)Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 8(CHI PLAY), pp. 1-29, ISBN/ISSN: 2573-0142
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Conference PaperYou are titled!: leveraging tabletop gaming to manage tile and strengthen team dynamics in esports (2024)Proceedings of CHI PLAY, 8(Unknown Issue), pp. 29
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Conference Paper“I want it to talk like Darth Vader”: Helping children construct creative self-efficacy with generative AI (2024)Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Conference Extended Abstract"Accidental Archivists": YouTube Gameplay Content and Game Preservation (2023)Proceedings of the 2023 Digital Games Research Association International Conference: The Limits and Margins of Games
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Conference PaperGender Differences in Ethical Stances for Playing AR Games: The Case of Pokémon GO (2023)Proceedings of the Digital Games Research Association Conference 2023
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Journal Article, Academic JournalHow do the kids speak? Improving educational use of text mining with child-directed language models (2023)Information and Learning Sciences, 124(1/2), pp. 25-47, ISBN/ISSN: 2398-5348
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Conference PaperHuman-AI Music Creation: Understanding the Perceptions and Experiences of Music Creators for Ethical and Productive Collaboration (2023)Proceedings of the 24th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) Conference
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Journal Article, Academic JournalWhat Makes Children's Responses to Creativity Assessments Difficult to Judge Reliably? (2023)The Journal of Creative Behavior, 57(3), pp. 419-438, ISBN/ISSN: 0022-0175
