Shawn Walker successfully defended his dissertation titled, The Complexity of Collecting Digital and Social Media Data in Ephemeral Contexts, this week! His work advances the field of information science by empirically investigating how the ephemeral nature of social media data, metadata, and linked content have significant and lasting effects on the reliability and authenticity of datasets used in research. Shawn soon starts as a new assistant professor at Arizona State University in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences in August. Congratulations, Dr. Walker! Thanks also to his committee, including Emma Spiro (Chair), Christine Di Stefano (GSR), W. Lance Bennett, Farida Vis, Nicholas Weber. ... Jacob O. Wobbrock, along with James Fogarty (CSE), Anat Caspi (Taskar Center), and Richard Ladner (CSE), was awarded a National Science Foundation grant for $1,230,547 entitled, “Chs-Medium: Improving the accessibility of mobile applications by enabling third-party assessment, repair, and enhancement.” The grant will begin in September 2017 and will fund work that seeks to significantly advance the accessibility of mobile applications and services. ... Clarita Lefthand-Begay was awarded $39,982 by the UW Royalty Research Fund to study water insecurity impacts on the health and culture of American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States. ...
Jessica Hullman had three papers accepted to IEEE InfoVis 2017 (acceptance rate 23%), including: Data Through Others' Eyes: The Impact of Visualizing Others' Expectations on Visualization Interpretation. Yea-Seul Kim, Katharina Reinecke, and Jessica Hullman; Keeping Multiple Views Consistent: Learning from Designers' Perceptions and Practices. Zening Qu and Jessica Hullman; and Imagining Replications: Graphical Prediction and Discrete Visualizations Improve Recall & Estimation of Effect Uncertainty. Jessica Hullman, Matthew Kay, Yea-Seul Kim, and Samana Shrestha. ...
Amy Ko had three papers accepted to the 2017 ACM International Computing Education Research conference (ICER 2017) (acceptance rate ~10%): Comprehension First: Evaluating a Novel Pedagogy and Tutoring System for Program Tracing in CS1. Greg Nelson, Benjamin Xie, and Amy J. Ko; Barriers Faced by Coding Bootcamp Students. Kyle Thayer and Amy J. Ko; Computing Mentorship in a Software Boomtown: Relationships to Adolescent Interest and Beliefs. Amy J. Ko and Katie Davis.