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icon representing human-computer interactionThe 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

  • Julia Deeb-Swihart
  • Anind Dey
  • Batya Friedman
  • David Hendry
  • Alexis Hiniker
  • Amy Ko
  • Lindah Kotut
  • Tanu Mitra
  • Wanda Pratt
  • Chirag Shah
  • Jaime Snyder
  • Kyle Thayer
  • 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

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Summit brings online MSIM students to campus

Monday, March 20, 2023
Journalist and author Mónica Guzman’s advice for Master of Science in Information Management students: “Where you can, welcome disagreement.” She shared those words with dozens of online students March 17 at the opening keynote...
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World struggles to make progress on meaningful access to information

Thursday, March 16, 2023
Information access is a fundamental driver of many of the goals in the United Nations’ 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, yet many countries are struggling to make progress. A new analysis has found that statistical indicators of...
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Events

Apr 1
 
9:00-2:30PM

WE Rise Annual Conference

Husky Union Building
Apr 3
 
12:30-1:20PM

iSchool Research Symposium: Meredith Broussard

Zoom only
Apr 4
 
12:30-1:00PM

Alternative Summer Plan

Online
Apr 5
 
6:00-7:00PM

MSIM Program Overview

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