Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
The iSchool is home to a world-renowned faculty that investigates, innovates, designs, and builds technologies and digital experiences from the perspectives of human values, access, learning, health, wellness, and life. We lead the field in ability-based design, co-design, data-driven design, patient-centered design, and value sensitive design. Our work engages children and families, patients and clinicians, young people and educators, survivors and international justice organizations, among others. In so doing, we seek to improve human well-being and ensure equitable access to information and digital experiences.
Researchers
- Anind Dey
- Batya Friedman
- David Hendry
- Alexis Hiniker
- Amy Ko
- Lindah Kotut
- Tanu Mitra
- Caroline Pitt
- Wanda Pratt
- Chirag Shah
- Hua Shen
- Jaime Snyder
- Kyle Thayer
- Spencer Williams
- Jacob Wobbrock
Current Projects and Grants
Influencing Communities and Narratives: New Techniques for Understanding Adversarial Influence Online
PI: Tanu Mitra
Funding: Office of Naval Research, $508,476
Dates: 2021
Supporting Scalable Value-Sensitive Fact-Checking through Human-AI Intelligence
PI: Tanu Mitra
Funding: Google, $60,000
Dates: 2021
Forgiveness by Design
PI: Alexis Hiniker
Funding: Facebook, $100,000
Dates: 2020
The Ability-Based Design Mobile Toolkit: Enabling Accessible Mobile Interactions through Advanced Sensing and Modeling
PI: Jacob O. Wobbrock
Funding: Google, $60,000
Dates: 2020
CREATE: Center for Research and Education on Accessible Technology Experiences
PI: Jacob O. Wobbrock (co-director)
Funding: Microsoft, $10 million
Dates: Began in 2020
CAREER: Visually Encoding Personal Data for Vulnerable Populations
PI: Jaime Snyder
Funding: National Science Foundation, $266,366
Dates: 2019-2024
Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating Apps for Meaningful — Rather than Compulsive — Phone Use
PI: Alexis Hiniker
Funding: National Science Foundation (NSF), $175,000
Dates: 2019-2021
Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) Research
PI: Anind Dey
Funding: U.S. Department of Defense; Carnegie Mellon University; $34,904
Dates: 2019-2020
Project FIGARO - Factors Important to Gather for Anticipating Relapses for Opioids
PI: Anind Dey
Funding: National Institutes of Health (via Behaivior, LLC), $47,999
Dates: 2018-2019
Preventing Unintended and Malicious Audio Capture on Android Devices
PI: Alexis Hiniker
Funding: University of Washington Royalty Research Fund (RRF), $39,000
Dates: 2018-2019
Programming Strategies
PI: Amy Ko
Funding: National Science Foundation (NSF), $503,207
Dates: 2017-2021
Improving the Accessibility of Mobile Applications by Enabling Third-Party Assessment, Repair, and Enhancement
Co-PI: Jacob Wobbrock
Funding: National Science Foundation (NSF), $1,198,547
Dates: 2017-2020
ACCESSCOMPUTING
Co-PIs: Jacob Wobbrock, Amy Ko
Funding: National Science Foundation (NSF), $4,257,252
Dates: 2015-2020