2022

Misinformation Escape Room: Building a research agenda for a gamified approach to combating health misinformation

Funder: University of Washington Population Health Initiative
Amount: $24,914
PI: Chris Coward, Jin Ha Lee, Kolina Koltai, Rachel Moran, Julie A. Kientz

Just-in-Time Sun Safety Intervention for Children: Mobile SunSmart MS2

Funder: National Institutes of Health (NIH) through University of Southern California
Amount: $469,813
PI: Jason C. Yip

Digital Navigators Program

Funder: Washington State Office of Minority and Women’s Business Enterprises
Amount: $34,157
PI: Chris Jowaisas, Stacey Wedlake

The Puget Sound Clinic for Public Interest Technology at the University of Washington-Seattle

Funder: New Venture Fund
Amount: $178,808
PI: Nicholas Weber
Additional researchers: Tanu Mitra, Bill Howe

2021

Data Services for Indigenous Scholarship and Sovereignty

Funder: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Amount: $500,000
PI: Carole Palmer, Miranda Belarde-Lewis, Sandy Littletree, Nicholas Weber
Additional researchers: Christopher Teuton, Tami Hohn

Building Rapid-Response Frameworks to Support Multi-Stakeholder Collaborations for Mitigating Online Disinformation

Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Amount: $2,249,918
PI: Kate Starbird, Emma Spiro, Jevin West

Developing Valid and Equitable Tasks for Assessing Programming Proficiency: Linking Process Data to Assessment Characteristics

Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF), Collaborative Research
Amount: $877,449
PI: Amy J. Ko, Min Li

Co-designing for Trust: Reimagining Online Information Literacies with Underserved Communities

Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Amount: $750,000
PI: Jevin West, Emma Spiro, Katie Davis
Additional researchers: Carl Bergstrom, Kate Starbird, Cindy Aden, Jason Young, Jennifer Turns, Tanu Mitra, Kolina Koltai, Maddy Jalbert, Rachel Moran

Co-Designing Civic Education for the Circumpolar North

Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF) (Total award: $300,000)
Amount: $263,000
PI: Jason Young, Michelle Koutnik, Nadine Fabbi

Misinformation Escape Room: Supporting Libraries as Hubs for Misinformation Education

Funder: Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
Amount: $249,691
PI: Chris Coward, Jin Ha Lee

The Community Archives Center for Tacoma

Funder: Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) through Tacoma Public Library (Total award: $247,545)
Amount: $56,423
PI: Jason Young, Chris Jowaisas, Marika Cifor

Curating QDAS Research Objects for Exchange and Reuse

Funder: Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) through Syracuse University (Total award: $347,380)
Amount: $42,451
PI: Nicholas Weber

Broadening Participation with CS Counternarratives

Funder: Google
Amount: $70,000
PI: Amy J. Ko

Center for an Informed Public (CIP)

Funder: Craig Newmark Philanthropies
Amount: $1,000,000
PI: Jevin West, Kate Starbird, Chris Coward, Emma Spiro, Ryan Calo

E-Rate Commitments: Utilization, Trends, and Impacts on Public Libraries, 2016-2020

Funder: American Library Association (ALA)
Amount: $29,839
PI: Chris Jowaisas, Bree Norlander, Jason Young

Ethical AI in the Public Sector: Towards A Semi-Synthetic Data Fabric for AI Evaluation

Funder: Cisco Systems, Inc.
Amount: $200,000
PI: Bill Howe

Influencing Communities and Narratives: New Techniques for Understanding Adversarial Influence Online

Funder: Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program (YIP)
Amount: $508,476
PI: Tanu Mitra
Additional researchers: Emma Spiro

Co-designing a Technology-based Health Research Results Dissemination Tool with AIAN People

Funder: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Amount: $182,080
PI: Lisa G. Dirks
Additional researchers: Wanda Pratt, Miranda Belarde-Lewis

Empirical and Design Investigations to Address Misleading Online News in Social Media (REU Supplement)

Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Amount: $16,000
PI: Tanu Mitra

CAREER: Visually Encoding Personal Data for Vulnerable Populations (REU Supplement)

Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Amount: $16,000
PI: Jaime Snyder

Justice-Focused Secondary CS Teacher Education (REU Supplement)

Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Amount: $16,000
PI: Amy J. Ko

Programming Strategies (REU Supplement)

Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Amount: $8,000
PI: Amy J. Ko

Formal Verification of Accessibility (REU Supplement)

Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Amount: $16,000
PI: Amy J. Ko

Inconvenient Data

Funder: University of Washington Royalty Research Fund (RRF)
Amount: $39,984
PI: Megan Finn

Technology Use and Emerging Executive Functioning in Early Childhood

Funder: National Institutes of Health (NIH) through University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Amount: $85,071
PI: Alexis Hiniker

WA Data Stewards Training

Funder: Washington State Department of Licensing
Amount: $50,000
PI: Nicholas Weber

Setting an International, Cross-Disciplinary Agenda for Youth Digital Wellness Research

Funder: University of Washington Global Innovation Fund
Amount: $8,862
PI: Katie Davis, Alexis Hiniker, Molly Adrian

Sanctuary Laws Are Not Optional: Examining Immigration Information Flows to Monitor Law Enforcement Compliance with Sanctuary Laws in Washington

Funder: University of Washington Royalty Research Fund (RRF)
Amount: $39,975
PI: Marika Cifor, Ricardo Gomez

COVID Data Infrastructure Builders Project

Funder: Ford Foundation and Open Collective Foundation (Total Award: $100,000)
Amount: $42,823
PI: Megan Finn, Amelia Acker, Ryan Ellis

Co-Designing Protocols for Data Creation, Analysis, and Use Among Local Care Networks in Seattle and Boston to Enhance Disaster Resilience

Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Amount: $49,997
PI: Nicholas Weber, Chris Coward, Emma Spiro, Carole Palmer

Tech Policy Lab (TPL)

Funder: Microsoft (Total award: $350,000)
Amount: $116,666
PI: Ryan Calo, Batya Friedman, Tadayoshi Kohno

Tech Policy Lab (TPL)

Funder: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Total award: $750,000)
Amount: $250,000
PI: Batya Friedman, Ryan Calo, Tadayoshi Kohno

Supporting Scalable Value-Sensitive Fact-Checking through Human-AI Intelligence

Funder: Google
Amount: $60,000
PI: Tanu Mitra

Center for an Informed Public (CIP)

Funder: Stanford University
Amount: $150,000
PI: Kate Starbird, Jevin West, Emma Spiro

COVID Data Infrastructure Builders: Creating Resilient and Sustainable Research Collaborations

Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Amount: $91,013
PI: Megan Finn
Additional researchers: Stacey Wedlake

Stanford Cardinal Service PIT Career Pipeline Expansion

Funder: New Venture Fund through Stanford University
Amount: $7,000
PI: Anind K. Dey

Caring About Teen Mental Health

Funder: Institute of Museums and Library Services (IMLS) through Seattle Public Library (Total award: $247,307)
Amount: $11,889
PI: Jin Ha Lee, Elin Bjorling

Designing Digital Assistants for Prosocial Communication

Funder: Jacobs Foundation
Amount: $180,758
PI: Alexis Hiniker

2020

Recommending VR Interaction Techniques for Users with Limited Mobility

Funder: Facebook
Amount: $74,947
PI: Jacob Wobbrock, Rachel Franz

Justice-Focused Secondary CS Teacher Education

Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF) (Total award:$999,723)
Amount: $900,846
PI: Amy J. Ko
Additional researchers: Anne Beitlers

Empowering Syrian Girls through Culturally Sensitive Mobile Technology and Media Literacy

Funder: Google
Amount: $60,000
PI: Karen E. Fisher, Yacine Ghamri-Doudane

Models and Methods for Understanding Covert Online Influence

Funder: United States Department of Defense (DOD) Minerva Research Initiative
Amount: $245,366
PI: Tanu Mitra

The Ability-Based Design Mobile Toolkit: Enabling Accessible Mobile Interactions through Advanced Sensing and Modeling

Funder: Google
Amount: $60,000
PI: Jacob Wobbrock

Center for an Informed Public (CIP)

Funder: AARP Washington
Amount: $15,000
PI: Jevin West, Kate Starbird, Chris Coward, Emma Spiro, Ryan Calo

Auditing YouTube for Misinformation

Funder: The Poynter Institute (Total award: $99,707)
Amount: $54,707
PI: Tanu Mitra

Data Afterlives: The Long-Term Impact of NSF Data Management Plans on Data Archiving and Sharing for Increased Access

Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF), Science & Technology Studies (STS), Collaborative Research (Total award: $461,085)
Amount: $174,054
PI: Megan Finn, Amelia Acker

An Integrative Measurement of Common Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms Using Passive Sensing

Funder: United States Department of Defense (DOD) through Carnegie Mellon University (Total award: $185,692)
Amount: $32,751
PI: Anind K. Dey

A Holistic Environmental Health Approach to Promoting Health, Equity, and Water Security in One Alaskan Native Village

Funder: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Total award: $359,000)
Amount: $274,992
PI: Clarita Lefthand-Begay, Maya Magarati, Terri Parr

Autism-Ready Libraries: Early Literacy Services for Autistic Children and Their Families

Funder: Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
Amount: $476,568
PI: Hala Annabi, Michelle H. Martin
Additional researchers: Jill Locke, Milly Romeijn-Stout, Christine Moeller

Center for an Informed Public (CIP)

Funder: Boeing Employees' Credit Union (BECU)
Amount: $75,000
PI: Jevin West, Kate Starbird, Chris Coward, Emma Spiro, Ryan Calo

Trauma in the Library: Symptoms of PTSD Among Staff and Methods for Ensuring Trauma-Informed Care

Funder: Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
Amount: $498,081
PI: Karen E. Fisher

Connecting Rural and Small Libraries to Connected Learning

Funder: Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) (Total award: $427,062)
Amount: $284,259
PI: Katie Davis, Chris Coward, Mega Subramaniam
Additional researchers: Stacey Wedlake

Exploring the Benefits and Challenges of Community-Powered Connectivity in The New Arctic

Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF) (Total award: $250,000)
Amount: $26,835
PI: Jason Young, Kurtis Heimerl, Spencer Sevilla

Leveraging Use of Open Data by Public Library Staff for Community Benefit

Funder: Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
Amount: $100,000
PI: Chris Jowaisas, Bree Norlander

Female Leadership Research Methodology

Funder: Ernst and Young, LLP
Amount: $1,500
PI: Maria Garrido

Center for an Informed Public (CIP)

Funder: Craig Newmark Philanthropies
Amount: $100,000
PI: Jevin West, Emma Spiro, Kate Starbird, Chris Coward, Ryan Calo

Exploring Physically Distant Technology Access and Assistance to Support Workers in a New Economy

Funder: University of Washington Population Health Initiative
Amount: $18,699
PI: Chris Jowaisas, Stacey Wedlake, Matthew Houghton , Meghan Sebold , David Keyes , Ryan Davis

Skill It Up at University of South Carolina

Funder: University of South Carolina
Amount: $3,000
PI: Bob Boiko

Automatically Synthesizing Valid, Personalized, Formative Assessments of CS1 Concepts (REU Supplement)

Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Amount: $17,530
PI: Amy J. Ko

West African Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases

Funder: National Institutes of Health (NIH) through University of Texas Medical Branch (Total award: $7,840,250)
Amount: $265,749
PI: Jevin West
Additional researchers: Benjamin M. Althouse

Digital Literacy Skills

Funder: Seattle Jobs Initiative
Amount: $5,000
PI: Chris Jowaisas
Additional researchers: Stacey Wedlake

Information Fostering - Being Proactive in Information Seeking (REU Supplement)

Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Amount: $8,000
PI: Chirag Shah

Automatically Synthesizing Valid, Personalized, Formative Assessments of CS1 Concepts (INTERN Supplement)

Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Amount: $16,000
PI: Amy J. Ko

Designing a Visual Decision Aid for Shared Decision Making after Renal Biopsy

Funder: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) (Total award: $159,042)
Amount: $130,755
PI: Jaime Snyder, Ari Pollack

Rumor Dynamics Online during the COVID-19 Crisis

Funder: University of Washington Population Health Initiative
Amount: $20,000
PI: Emma Spiro, Jevin West, Kate Starbird

How Scientific Data, Knowledge, and Expertise Mobilize in Online Media during the COVID-19 Crisis

Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Amount: $197,538
PI: Emma Spiro, Kate Starbird, Jevin West

Workshop on Intelligent Systems for Information Exploration and Access (iSEA)

Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Amount: $23,815
PI: Chirag Shah

Visually Encoding Personal Data for Vulnerable Populations (REU Supplement)

Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Amount: $16,000
PI: Jaime Snyder

Programming Strategies (REU Supplement)

Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Amount: $8,000
PI: Amy J. Ko

Empowering Open Law and Science

Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Amount: $40,282
PI: Nicholas Weber

Standards Database

Funder: Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI)
Amount: $13,000
PI: Amy J. Ko

CAREER: Designing for Youth Invisible Work in Families

Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Amount: $549,046
PI: Jason C. Yip

Computational Modeling of Human Rhythms to Improve Health and Quality of Life

Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF) through University of Virginia (UVA)
Amount: $39,393
PI: Anind K. Dey

Tech Policy Lab (TPL)

Funder: Microsoft (Total award: $550,000)
Amount: $183,333
PI: Batya Friedman, Tadayoshi Kohno, Ryan Calo

Center for an Informed Public (CIP)

Funder: Microsoft
Amount: $150,000
PI: Jevin West, Emma Spiro, Kate Starbird, Chris Coward, Ryan Calo

Co-designing and Investigating New Technologies for Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Children and Families

Funder: Jacobs Foundation
Amount: $169,616
PI: Jason C. Yip

Center for Research and Education on Accessible Technology and Experiences (CREATE)

Funder: Microsoft
Amount: $2,500,000
PI: Jacob Wobbrock, Jennifer Mankoff, Anat Caspi, Richard Ladner, Heather Feldner, Leah Findlater, James A. Fogarty, Jon Froehlich, Kat Steele

2019

Data Reasoning for Philanthropy

Funder: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Amount: $25,000
PI: Jevin West

Workshop on Foundations of Responsible Data Science (FoRDS)

Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Amount: $100,000
PI: Bill Howe

UW Clinical Funding Analysis

Funder: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Amount: $52,659
PI: Jevin West

Center for an Informed Public (CIP)

Funder: John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Amount: $5,000,000
PI: Jevin West, Chris Coward, Emma Spiro, Kate Starbird, Ryan Calo

Framework for Integrative Data Equity Systems

Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF), Collaborative Research (Total award: $400,000)
Amount: $305,515
PI: Bill Howe

Project VOICE (Value-sensitive Design of Outcomes Informing Community Engagement) for Libraries

Funder: Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) through Kent State University
Amount: $169,201
PI: Michelle H. Martin, Ricardo Gomez, Katie Campana

Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating Apps for Meaningful—Rather than Compulsive—Phone Use

Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF), Research Initiation Initiative (CRII), Cyber-Human Systems (CHS)
Amount: $175,000
PI: Alexis Hiniker

Information Fostering - Being Proactive in Information Seeking

Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Amount: $457,336
PI: Chirag Shah

A Mobile Sensing System to Monitor Symptoms during Chemotherapy

Funder: National Institutes of Health (NIH) through University of Pittsburgh
Amount: $37,180
PI: Anind K. Dey

Life Histories of Labor and Resilience: 25 years of Casa Latina in Seattle

Funder: UW Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies
Amount: $13,000
PI: Ricardo Gomez

Center for an Informed Public (CIP)

Funder: William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Amount: $600,000
PI: Jevin West, Kate Starbird, Chris Coward, Emma Spiro, Ryan Calo

CAREER: Visually Encoding Personal Data for Vulnerable Populations

Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Amount: $613,405
PI: Jaime Snyder

Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) Research

Funder: United States Department of Defense (DOD) through Carnegie Mellon University
Amount: $34,904
PI: Anind K. Dey