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2021

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

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

Designing Digital Assistants for Prosocial Communication

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

2020

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

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

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

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

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

Pilot Mobile-Wearable Just-in-Time-Adaptive-Intervention (JITAI) for Sun Safety Among Children

Funder: National Institutes of Health (NIH) through University of Southern California
Amount: $34,925
PI: Jason C. Yip

Study of Children's Interaction with Technology Products

Funder: Amazon.com, Inc.
Amount: $16,000
PI: Jason C. Yip

Tech Policy Lab (TPL)

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

Forgiveness by Design

Funder: Facebook
Amount: $100,000
PI: Alexis Hiniker

DCC Curation Lifecycle Model 2.0

Funder: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation through Johns Hopkins University (Total Award: $19,124)
Amount: $6,117
PI: Carole Palmer

Formal Methods in the Field (FMitF)

Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF) (Total award: $738,125)
Amount: $19,000
PI: Amy J. Ko, Mike Ernst, Zachary Tatlock, Jennifer Mankoff

Cultivating Ethics in Data Science: Challenges and Opportunities in Academia and Industry

Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF), Cultivating Cultures for Ethical STEM (CCE STEM), Collaborative Research (Total award: $400,000)
Amount: $64,477
PI: Anna Lauren Hoffmann

Preventing Unintended and Malicious Audio Capture on Android Devices

Funder: University of Washington Royalty Research Fund (RRF)
Amount: $39,000
PI: Alexis Hiniker

Data & Design Methods for Supporting Crisis Informatics in Conflict Zones

Funder: Facebook Research: Crisis Informatics Research Award
Amount: $50,000
PI: Karen E. Fisher

2018

Using Participatory Design and Participatory Action Research Methods to Examine Adolescent and Families use of Technologies

Funder: Jacobs Foundation through the University of California Irvine
Amount: $6,250
PI: Jason C. Yip

The Privacy Interoperability Project

Funder: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Amount: $420,815
PI: Nicholas Weber, Carole Palmer

Digital Equity Initiative – Digital Skills Project

Funder: City of Seattle Department of Information Technology
Amount: $20,000
PI: Chris Coward
Additional researchers: Stacey Wedlake

Co-Creating Concept Art and Stories for Virtual Reality (VR): Libraries and Museums as Assets for Juvenile Rehabilitation

Funder: Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
Amount: $89,109
PI: Negin Dahya, Jessica Luke
Additional researchers: Jason C. Yip, Jin Ha Lee

Project FIGARO-- Factors Important to Gather for Anticipating Relapses for Opioids

Funder: National Institutes of Health (NIH), Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR), through Behaivior LLC (Total Award: $223,791)
Amount: $47,999
PI: Anind K. Dey

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

Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF), Cyber-Human Systems (CHS), Small, through Carnegie Mellon University (Total Award: $498,496)
Amount: $43,594
PI: Anind K. Dey

Facilitating the Curation and Conversation of Biotech History

Funder: Science History Institute
Amount: $19,992
PI: Jevin West, Jason H. Portenoy

NatureCollections: Can a Mobile App Connect Kids with Nature?

Funder: CoMotion Innovation Fund
Amount: $50,000
PI: Katie Davis, Joshua Lawler, Saba Kawas, Sarah Chase

Group Health Foundation - Lessons Learned From Engaging with Communities

Funder: Group Health Foundation
Amount: $7,500
PI: Jaime Snyder

A Conceptual Data Model and Schema for Video Game Development Artifacts

Funder: Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
Amount: $254,072
PI: Jin Ha Lee

Supporting Intergenerational Participatory Design Groups for Librarians and Youth for Design Thinking around Digital Learning

Funder: Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
Amount: $353,071
PI: Jason C. Yip, Jin Ha Lee

CAREER: Enhancing Critical Reflection on Data by Integrating Users' Expectations in Visualization Interaction

Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Amount: $523,516
PI: Jessica Hullman

Tribal Water Summit, Spring 2018

Funder: Russell Family Foundation
Amount: $5,000
PI: Clarita Lefthand-Begay

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Alexis Hiniker

How do Alexa and Siri affect kids? iSchool's Hiniker investigates

Friday, January 8, 2021
Many families have unwittingly been taking part in a huge social experiment. They’ve invited conversational agents such as Siri and Alexa into their homes, but how do these new technologies affect children’s social development? The...
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Researchers work to bridge digital divide in Tacoma

Tuesday, January 5, 2021
The coronavirus pandemic has shown how internet access has become a crucial lifeline for many. It has also highlighted a key facet of Jason Young’s research at the Information School: the gap between those who have broadband internet...
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