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: Faculty position
Lorri Mon, 2006
- Dissertation Title: User Perceptions of Digital Reference Services
- Committee Chair: Joe Janes
- Post Graduation: Faculty 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: Faculty position
Patricia Katapol, 2007
- Dissertation Title: Information Culture of Support Staff in Municipal Government And Implications for Managerial Decision-Making
- Committee Chair: Raya Fidel
- Post Graduation: Faculty position
Nathan Freier, 2007
- Dissertation Title: Children Distinguish Conventional from Moral Violations in Interactions with a Personified Agent
- Committee Chair: Batya Friedman
- Post Graduation: Faculty 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: Non-Profit Administration
Meliha Yetisgen Yildiz, 2007
- Dissertation Title: Using Statistical and Knowledge-Based Approaches for Literature-Based Discovery
- Committee Chair: Wanda Pratt
- Post Graduation: Research Faculty
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: Business/Industry
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: Faculty Position
Sunny Consolvo, 2008
- Dissertation Title: Designing and Evaluating a Persuasive Technology to Encourage Lifestyle Behavior Change
- Committee Chair: David McDonald
- Post Graduation: Business/Industry
Melanie Feinberg, 2008
- Dissertation Title: Classification as Communication: Properties and Design
- Committee Chair: Allyson Carlyle
- Post Graduation: Faculty Position
Deborah Turner, 2009
- Dissertation Title: Conceptualizing Oral Documents
- Committee Chair: Harry Bruce
- Post Graduation: Faculty 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: Business/Industry
Lisa Nathan, 2009
- Dissertation Title: Ecovillages, Sustainability, and Information Tools: An ethnography of values, adaptation, and tension
- Committee Chair: Batya Friedman
- Post Graduation: Faculty Position
Kris Unsworth, 2009
- Dissertation Title: Identifying the Enemy: Social categorization and national security policy
- Committee Chair: Adam Moore
- Post Graduation: Faculty Position
Predrag Kalasnja, 2010
- Dissertation Title: Supporting Unanchored Information Work of Cancer Patients with Mobile Technology
- Committee Chair: Wanda Pratt
- Post Graduation: Faculty 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: Faculty Position
Volodymyr Lysenko, 2011
- Dissertation Title: Political Cyberprotest as an Information System in (Semi)Authoritarian Societies
- Committee Chair: Adam Moore
- Post Graduation: Research Faculty
Shaun Kane, 2011
- Dissertation Title: Understanding and Creating Accessible Touch Screen Interactions for Blind People
- Committee Chair: Jake Wobbrock / Richard Ladner
- Post Graduation: Faculty Position
Charles (Chic) Naumer, 2012
- Dissertation Title: Understanding Information Needs and Framing: A grounded theory study
- Committee Chair: Karen Fisher
- Post Graduation: Business/Industry
Jiranida (Ammy) Phuwanartnurak, 2013
- Dissertation Title: Exploring the Use of Wikis for Information Sharing in Interdisciplinary Design
- Committee Chair: David Hendry
- Post Graduation: Business/Industry
Peyina Lin, 2013
- Dissertation Title: Channeling Friendships across Social Types via Mediated Communication and High School Clubs
- Committee Chair: Michael Eisenberg
- Post Graduation: Guest Faculty
Marilyn Ostergren, 2013
- Dissertation Title: How Scientists Develop Competence in Visual Communication
- Committee Chair: David Levy
- Post Graduation: Guest Faculty
Parmit Chilana, 2013
- Dissertation Title: Supporting Users After Software Deployment through Selection-Based Crowdsourced Contextual Help
- Committee Chair: Jake Wobbrock/Andy Ko
- Post Graduation: Faculty Position
Jeff Huang, 2013
- Dissertation Title: Modeling User Behavior and Attention in Search
- Committee Chair: Jake Wobbrock/ Dumas
- Post Graduation: Faculty Position
Marisa Duarte, 2013
- Dissertation Title: Network Sovereignty: Investigating the Implications of Tribally Owned Internet Infrastructures
- Committee Chair: Cheryl Metoyer
- Post Graduation: Faculty position
Miranda Belarde-Lewis, 2013
- Dissertation Title: From Six Directions: Protecting Zuni Knowledge in Multiple Environments
- Committee Chair: Cheryl Metoyer
- Post Graduation: Faculty 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: Director, Research Labs
Gifford Cheung, 2013
- Dissertation Title: Let’s Play Our Way: Designing Flexibility into Card Game Systems
- Committee Chair: David Hendry
- Post Graduation: Business/Industry
Jeff Hemsley, 2014
- Dissertation Title: Studying Network Structural Changes Using Information Event Signatures
- Committee Chair: Bob Mason
- Post Graduation: Faculty 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
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: Lecturer
Eun Kyoung Choe, 2014
- Dissertation Title: Designing Self-Monitoring Technology to Promote Data Capture and Reflection
- Committee Chair: Julie Kientz
- Post Graduation: Faculty Position
Elisabeth Jones, 2014
- Dissertation Title: Constructing the Universal Library
- Committee Chair: Joe Janes
- Post Graduation: Business/Industry, Lecturer
Yuan Lin, 2014
- Dissertation Title: Dynamics in Organizational Problem Solving and the Leveraging of Social Capital
- Committee Chair: Hans J. Scholl
- Post Graduation: Post Doc./Fellowship
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: Teacher
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: 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: Faculty Position
Michael Lee, 2015
- Dissertation Title: Teaching and Engaging with Debugging Puzzles
- Committee Chair: Andy Ko
- Post Graduation: Faculty Position
Rachel Clarke, 2016
- Dissertation Title: It’s Not
RocketLibrary Science: Design Epistemology and American Librarianship - Committee Chair: Allyson Carlyle
- Post Graduation: Faculty Position
Paul Li, 2016
- Dissertation Title: What Makes a Great Software Engineer?
- Committee Chair: Andy Ko
- Post Graduation: Business/Industry
Katherine Thornton, 2016
- Dissertation Title: Powerful Structure: Inspecting the Infrastructure of Information Organization in Wikimedia Foundation Projects
- Committee Chair: Allyson Carlyle
- Post Graduation: Post Doc./Fellowship
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: Business/Industry
Juan-Carlos Chavez, 2017
- Dissertation Title: Native American Telecommunication Independence: One Step Above Smoke Signals
- Committee Chair: Cheryl Metoyer
- Post Graduation: PI / Non-Profit Adminstration
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: Faculty 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: Faculty Position