Completed Dissertations
Copies of dissertations are available through the UW libraries.
Joe Tennis, 2005
- Dissertation Title: Conceptions of Subject Analysis: A Metatheoretical Investigation
- Committee Chair: Allyson Carlyle
- Post-Graduation Position: Tenure Track Faculty
- Current Position
Lorri Mon, 2006
- Dissertation Title: User Perceptions of Digital Reference Services
- Committee Chair: Joe Janes
- Post-Graduation Position: Tenure Track Faculty
- Current Position
Martha Smith, 2006
- Dissertation Title: Art Information Use and Needs of Non-Specialists: Evidence in Art Museum Visitor Studies
- Committee Chair: Allison Carlyle
- Post-Graduation Position: Tenure Track Faculty
Patricia Katopol, 2007
- Dissertation Title: Information Culture of Support Staff in Municipal Government And Implications for Managerial Decision-Making
- Committee Chair: Raya Fidel
- Post-Graduation Position: Tenure Track Faculty
Nathan Freier, 2007
- Dissertation Title: Children Distinguish Conventional from Moral Violations in Interactions with a Personified Agent
- Committee Chair: Batya Friedman
- Post-Graduation Position: Tenure Track Faculty
- Current Position
Kent Unruh, 2007
- Dissertation Title: Information and the Cancer Experience: A Study of Patient Work in Cancer Care
- Committee Chair: Wanda Pratt
- Post-Graduation Position: Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Current Position
Meliha Yetisgen Yildiz, 2007
- Dissertation Title: Using Statistical and Knowledge-Based Approaches for Literature-Based Discovery
- Committee Chair: Wanda Pratt
- Post-Graduation Position: Business/Industry Researcher
- Current Position
Tammara Combs (Turner), 2008
- Dissertation Title: Understanding Community: The Implications of Social Interactions and Information Flow in Online Discussion Groups
- Committee Chair: Karen Fisher
- Post-Graduation Position: Business/Industry
- Current Position
Ok Nam Park, 2008
- Dissertation Title: Current Practice in Classification System Design - An empirical investigation of classification system design team practice
- Committee Chair: Allyson Carlyle
- Post-Graduation Position: Faculty Position
Sunny Consolvo, 2008
- Dissertation Title: Designing and Evaluating a Persuasive Technology to Encourage Lifestyle Behavior Change
- Committee Chair: David McDonald
- Post-Graduation Position: Business/Industry Researcher
- Current Position
Melanie Feinberg, 2008
- Dissertation Title: Classification as Communication: Properties and Design
- Committee Chair: Allyson Carlyle
- Post-Graduation Position: Tenure Track Faculty
- Current Position
Deborah Turner, 2009
- Dissertation Title: Conceptualizing Oral Documents
- Committee Chair: Harry Bruce
- Post-Graduation Position: Tenure Track Faculty
- Current Position
Monica (Shujua) Liu, 2009
- Dissertation Title: What shapes employees’ decisions to share knowledge in real work practices: An exploration of knowledge sharing processes and factors shaping workers’ knowledge sharing when performing a task
- Committee Chair: Raya Fidel
- Post-Graduation Position: Business/Industry
- Current Position
Lisa Nathan, 2009
- Dissertation Title: Ecovillages, Sustainability, and Information Tools: An ethnography of values, adaptation, and tension
- Committee Chair: Batya Friedman
- Post-Graduation Position: Tenure Track Faculty
- Current Position
Kris Unsworth, 2009
- Dissertation Title: Identifying the Enemy: Social categorization and national security policy
- Committee Chair: Adam Moore
- Post-Graduation Position: Tenure Track Faculty
- Current Position
Predrag Klasnja, 2010
- Dissertation Title: Supporting Unanchored Information Work of Cancer Patients with Mobile Technology
- Committee Chair: Wanda Pratt
- Post-Graduation Position: Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Current Position
Eric Myers, 2011
- Dissertation Title: The Nature and Impact of Group Information Problem Solving in the Middle School Classroom
- Committee Chair: Michael Eisenberg
- Post-Graduation Position: Tenure Track Faculty
- Current Position
Volodymyr Lysenko, 2011
- Dissertation Title: Political Cyberprotest as an Information System in (Semi)Authoritarian Societies
- Committee Chair: Adam Moore
- Post-Graduation Position: Research Faculty/Lecturer
- Current Position
Shaun Kane, 2011
- Dissertation Title: Understanding and Creating Accessible Touch Screen Interactions for Blind People
- Committee Chair: Jake Wobbrock / Richard Ladner
- Post-Graduation Position: Tenure Track Faculty
- Current Position
Charles (Chic) Naumer, 2012
- Dissertation Title: Understanding Information Needs and Framing: A grounded theory study
- Committee Chair: Karen Fisher
- Post-Graduation Position: Business/Industry
- Current Position
Jiranida (Ammy) Phuwanartnurak, 2013
- Dissertation Title: Exploring the Use of Wikis for Information Sharing in Interdisciplinary Design
- Committee Chair: David Hendry
- Post-Graduation Position: Business/Industry
- Current Position
Peyina Lin-Roberts, 2013
- Dissertation Title: Channeling Friendships across Social Types via Mediated Communication and High School Clubs
- Committee Chair: Michael Eisenberg
- Post-Graduation Position: Faculty Lecturer
- Current Position
Marilyn Ostergren, 2013
- Dissertation Title: How Scientists Develop Competence in Visual Communication
- Committee Chair: David Levy
- Post-Graduation Position: Faculty Lecturer
Parmit Chilana, 2013
- Dissertation Title: Supporting Users After Software Deployment through Selection-Based Crowdsourced Contextual Help
- Committee Chair: Jake Wobbrock/Amy Ko
- Post-Graduation Position: Tenure Track Faculty
- Current Position
Jeff Huang, 2013
- Dissertation Title: Modeling User Behavior and Attention in Search
- Committee Chair: Jake Wobbrock/ Dumais
- Post-Graduation Position: Tenure Track Faculty
- Current Position
Marisa Duarte, 2013
- Dissertation Title: Network Sovereignty: Investigating the Implications of Tribally Owned Internet Infrastructures
- Committee Chair: Cheryl Metoyer
- Post-Graduation Position: Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Current Position
Miranda Belarde-Lewis, 2013
- Dissertation Title: From Six Directions: Protecting Zuni Knowledge in Multiple Environments
- Committee Chair: Cheryl Metoyer
- Post-Graduation Position: Museum Curator, Faculty Lecturer
- Current Position
Luis Fernando Baron, 2013
- Dissertation Title: The Power of Associations | Social Media and Social Movements: Facebook in the interactions of Social Movement Organizations
- Committee Chair: Ricardo Gomez
- Post-Graduation Position: Faculty
- Current Position
Gifford Cheung, 2013
- Dissertation Title: Let’s Play Our Way: Designing Flexibility into Card Game Systems
- Committee Chair: David Hendry
- Post-Graduation Position: Researcher
- Current Position
Jeff Hemsley, 2014
- Dissertation Title: Studying Network Structural Changes Using Information Event Signatures
- Committee Chair: Bob Mason
- Post-Graduation Position: Tenure Track Faculty
- Current Position
Jill Woelfer, 2014
- Dissertation Title: Tuned Souls: The Role of Music in the Lives of Homeless Young People
- Committee Chair: David Hendry
- Post-Graduation: Business/Industry Researcher
- Current Position
Marc Dupuis, 2014
- Dissertation Title: The Role of Trait Affect in the Information Security Behavior of Home Users
- Committee Chair: Hazel Taylor/ Barbara Endicott-Popovsky
- Post-Graduation Position: Faculty Lecturer
- Current Position
Eun Kyoung Choe, 2014
- Dissertation Title: Designing Self-Monitoring Technology to Promote Data Capture and Reflection
- Committee Chair: Julie Kientz
- Post-Graduation Position: Tenure Track Faculty
- Current Position
Elisabeth Jones, 2014
- Dissertation Title: Constructing the Universal Library
- Committee Chair: Joe Janes
- Post-Graduation Position: Business/Industry, Faculty Lecturer
- Current Position
Yuan Lin, 2014
- Dissertation Title: Dynamics in Organizational Problem Solving and the Leveraging of Social Capital
- Committee Chair: Hans J. Scholl
- Post-Graduation Position: Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Current Position
David Willer, 2014
- Dissertation Title: Targeting Success. An Evaluation of Information Literacy Standards: A Mixed Method Approach Utilizing the Judgments of National Board Certified Teachers
- Committee Chair: Mike Eisenberg
- Post-Graduation Position: Teacher
- Current Position
Carol Landry, 2014
- Dissertation Title: The Impacts of Time Pressure and Emotion on the Information Behavior of High Stakes Decision Makers: The Home Buying Experience
- Committee Chair: Karen Fisher
- Post-Graduation Position: Unknown
Bryce Newell, 2015
- Dissertation Title: Transparent Lives and the Surveillance State: Policing, New Visibility, and Information Policy
- Committee Chair: Adam D. Moore
- Post-Graduation Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
- Current Position
Michael Lee, 2015
- Dissertation Title: Teaching and Engaging with Debugging Puzzles
- Committee Chair: Amy Ko
- Post-Graduation Position: Tenure Track Faculty
- Current Position
Rachel Clarke, 2016
- Dissertation Title: It’s Not
RocketLibrary Science: Design Epistemology and American Librarianship - Committee Chair: Allyson Carlyle
- Post-Graduation Position: Tenure Track Faculty
- Current Position
Paul Li, 2016
- Dissertation Title: What Makes a Great Software Engineer?
- Committee Chair: Amy Ko
- Post-Graduation Position: Business/Industry Researcher
- Current Position
Katherine Thornton, 2016
- Dissertation Title: Powerful Structure: Inspecting the Infrastructure of Information Organization in Wikimedia Foundation Projects
- Committee Chair: Allyson Carlyle
- Post-Graduation: Postdoctoral Fellowship
Jared Bauer, 2017
- Dissertation Title: Communicating Meaning in Context-Aware System Design
- Committee Chair: Julie Kientz
- Post-Graduation Position: Faculty Lecturer
- Current Position
Juan-Carlos Chavez, 2017
- Dissertation Title: Native American Telecommunication Independence: One Step Above Smoke Signals
- Committee Chair: Cheryl Metoyer
- Post-Graduation Position: PI / Higher Education Administration
- Current Position
Sheryl Day, 2017
- Dissertation Title: Talking Story: The Militarization of Guåhan and Flows of Information in Chamoru Systems of Knowledge
- Committee Chair: Cheryl Metoyer
- Post-Graduation Position: Business/Industry
- Current Position
Jordan Eschler, 2017
- Dissertation Title: Designing for the Dynamic Needs of Young Adult Cancer Survivors
- Committee Chair: Wanda Pratt
- Post-Graduation Position: Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Current Position
John Marino, 2017
- Dissertation Title: The Nature and Impact of Task Definition: Information Problem Categorization During Task Definition Within the Information Problem-Solving Process
- Committee Chair: Mike Eisenberg
- Post-Graduation Position: Tenure Track Faculty
- Current Position
Kristen Shinohara, 2017
- Dissertation Title: Design for Social Accessibility: Incorporating Social Factors in the Design of Accessible Technologies
- Committee Chair: Jacob Wobbrock / Wanda Pratt
- Post-Graduation Position: Tenure Track Faculty
- Current Position
Phil Fawcett, 2017
- Dissertation Title: The Information Lives of Immigrant and Refugee Youth Acting as Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Wayfarers
- Committee Chair: Karen Fisher
- Post-Graduation Position: Faculty Lecturer
- Current Position
Shawn Walker, 2017
- Dissertation Title: The Complexity of Collecting Digital and Social Media Data in Ephemeral Contexts
- Committee Chair: Emma Spiro
- Post-Graduation Position: Tenure Track Faculty
- Current Position
Norah Abokhodair, 2017
- Dissertation Title: Transnational Saudi Arabian Youth and Facebook Enacting Privacy and Identity
- Committee Chair: David Hendry
- Post-Graduation Position: Business/Industry Researcher
- Current Position
Tim Carlson, 2017
- Dissertation Title: Information Artifact Evaluation and Iterative Design: A Novel Mixed-Method Approach
- Committee Chair: Hans J. Scholl
- Post-Graduation Position: Business/Industry
Kathleen O'Leary, 2017
- Dissertation Title: Designing Chat Guidance for Positive Psychological Change
- Committee Chair: Jacob Wobbrock / Wanda Pratt
- Post-Graduation Position: Business/Industry Researcher
Abi Evans, 2018
- Dissertation Title: Adaptive Support for Face to Face Collaborative Learning at Tabletop Computers
- Committee Chair: Katie Davis / Jacob Wobbrock
- Post-Graduation Position: Business/Industry Researcher
- Current Position
Veronica Guajardo, 2018
- Dissertation Title: UndocuLives: Understanding the Information Behavior, Needs, and Networks of Undocu-Students in Higher Education
- Committee Chair: Ricardo Gomez
- Post-Graduation Position: Higher Education Administration
Kathleen Campana, 2018
- Dissertation Title: The Multimodal Power of Storytime: Exploring an Information Environment for Young Children
- Committee Chair: Allyson Carlyle
- Post-Graduation Position: Tenure Track Faculty
- Current Position
Chris Hubbles, 2018
- Dissertation Title: No Country for Old Media
- Committee Chair: Jin Ha Lee
- Post-Graduation Position: Industry
Natasha Karlova, 2018
- Dissertation Title: Misinformation and Disinformation in Online Games: An Exploratory Investigation of Possible Cues
- Committee Chair: Karen E. Fisher
- Post-Graduation Position: Unknown
Sandra Littletree, 2018
- Dissertation Title: Let Me Tell You About Indian Libraries: Self-Determination, Leadership and Vision--A History of Tribal Libraries in the United States
- Committee Chair: Cheryl Metoyer
- Post-Graduation Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
- Current Position
Philip Reed, 2018
- Dissertation Title: "The Spark Came from that Experience": Career Aspirations and Internet Information Access in Two Nigerian Universities
- Committee Chair: Ricardo Gomez
- Post-Graduation Position: Business/Industry
- Current Position
Daisy Yoo, 2018
- Dissertation Title: Designing with (Political) Complexity: Understanding Stakeholders, Emotions, and Technology in the Case of Medical Aid-in-Dying
- Committee Chair: Batya Friedman
- Post-Graduation Position: Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Current Position
Martez Mott, 2018
- Dissertation Title: Improving Touch Accuracy for People with Motor Impairments
- Committee Chair: Jacob Wobbrock
- Post-Graduation Position: Business/Industry Researcher
- Current Position
Moonjung Yim, 2019
- Dissertation Title: Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) Evaluation: Examining its Foci, Gaps, Challenges, and Associations with Other Areas to Strengthen the Field's Conceptual Underpinnings
- Committee Chair: Ricardo Gomez
- Post-Graduation Position: Unknown
Hyerim Cho, 2019
- Dissertation Title: Understanding Users of Cross-media Information: Contexts, Gratifications, and Information Features Focusing on Visual Narratives Materials
- Committee Chair: Jin Ha Lee
- Post-Graduation Position: Tenure Track Faculty
- Current Position
Amanda Menking, 2019
- Dissertation Title: Speculum: Characterizing the creation, curation, reproduction, and neglect of women's health information on the English language Wikipedia
- Committee Chair: Wanda Pratt/ Claire McDonald
- Post-Graduation Position: Director, UW Master of HCI + Design /Assoc. Teaching Professor, UW (iSchool)
Sonali Mishra, 2019
- Dissertation Title: Designing Technologies to Support Patient Engagement in the Hospital
- Committee Chair: Wanda Pratt
- Post-Graduation Position: Post doc fellow, Seattle Veteran's Administration
Beth Joy Patin, 2019
- Dissertation Title: Rising Together: Community Resilience and Public Libraries
- Committee Chair: Allyson Carlyle
- Post-Graduation Position: Assistant Professor, Syracuse University
Dastyni Loksa, 2020
- Dissertation Title: Explicitly Training Metacognition and Self-Regulation for Computer Programming
- Committee Chair: Amy Ko
- Post-Graduation Position: Assistant Professor at Towson University
Yea Seul Kim, 2020
- Dissertation Title: Designing Beliefs-driven Interactions with Data
- Committee Chair: Amy Ko
- Post-Graduation Position: Assistant Professor, Towson University
Abdullah Ali, 2020
- Dissertation Title: Distributed Interaction Design
- Committee Chair: Jacob O. Wobbrock
- Post-Graduation Position: Designer, Amazon Web Services
Mike Katell, 2020
- Dissertation Title: Reflections on Algorithmic Reputation: Judgment and Equity in a Digitally Mediated Society
- Committee Chair: Adam Moore
- Post-Graduation Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Alan Turning Institute