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2022

Enhancing the Capacity for Environmental and Social Resiliency in Overburdened Communities

Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Amount: $49,999
PI: David G. Hendry, Aurora Martin, Esther Min

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

Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF) (Total award: $5,000,000)
Amount: $2,740,223
PI: Jason Young
Additional researchers: Jevin West, Katie Davis, Carl Bergstrom, Kate Starbird, Chris Jowaisas, Cindy Aden, David Levy, Jennifer Turns, Mike Caulfield, Nicholas Weber, Stacey Wedlake, Tanu Mitra, Maddy Jalbert, Rachel Moran

Kids CoLab - Supporting collaborative decision making with youth impacted by chronic kidney disease

Funder: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Amount: $672,378
PI: Ari Pollack
Additional researchers: Jaime Snyder, Wanda Pratt

Characterizing Sustainable Software from NSF Awards

Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF), Collaborative Research
Amount: $247,596
PI: Nicholas Weber
Additional researchers: Sandra Gesing, Jeffrey Carver, Karthik Ram, Daniel Katz

Open-Source Hardware Assembly, Repair, and Sustainability

Funder: Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
Amount: $317,332
PI: Nicholas Weber

Empowering Neurodivergent Librarians to Lead Inclusion in Libraries

Funder: Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
Amount: $491,500
PI: Hala Annabi
Additional researchers: Michelle H. Martin

Supporting the Development of Digital Playful Exploratory Resources to Combat Mis/disinformation through Online Intergenerational Co-design

Funder: Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
Amount: $249,917
PI: Jason C. Yip
Additional researchers: Chris Coward, Jin Ha Lee

Centering Washington Tribal Libraries: Building Relationships and Understanding Libraries From the Stories of Their Communities

Funder: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Amount: $82,000
PI: Sandy Littletree, Cindy Aden

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

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

Center for an Informed Public (CIP)

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

End-User Programming with Synthesis-Guided Interaction Models (REU Supplement)

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

Designing Education Resources to Counter Misinformation for Older Adults

Funder: Argosy Foundation
Amount: $50,000
PI: Jevin West, Carl Bergstrom

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

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, Nicholas Weber, Sandy Littletree
Additional researchers: Christopher Teuton, Tami Hohn

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

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

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
Additional researchers: Stacey Wedlake

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

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

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

Broadening Participation with CS Counternarratives

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Formal Verification of Accessibility (REU Supplement)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Center for an Informed Public (CIP)

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

2020

Recommending VR Interaction Techniques for Users with Limited Mobility

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

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iSchool research helps neurodivergent people succeed on the job

Monday, November 27, 2023
Sock wrangler Chelsie Fonseca does a little of everything at John’s Crazy Socks, an online retailer and social enterprise that features thousands of pairs of quirky socks. She packs the Happiness Gift Boxes and does the gift wrapping....
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iSchool's Chirag Shah honored for information behavior research

Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Information School Professor Chirag Shah is the recipient of this year’s ASIS&T SIG USE Outstanding Contributions to Information Behavior Research Award, which recognizes one scholar each year for their body of work in the...
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Events

Dec 4
 
9:30-10:30AM

Dissertation Proposal Defense - Christine M. Moeller

Virtual
Dec 6
 
4:00-5:00PM

Informatics Program Overview for Future UW Seattle First-Year and Current High School Students

Dec 7
 
3:00-4:00PM

Informatics Program Overview for Transfer Students

Zoom / Online
Dec 12
 
3:00-4:00PM

Museology Application Q&A Prospective Student Information Session

Zoom / Online
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