2022

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

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

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, 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
Additional researchers: Stacey Wedlake

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

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