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Jan. 8, 2018

Congratulations to our iSchool Strategic Research Fund (SRF) recipients this year!

  • Hala Annabi for The Untold Story: The Masked Experiences of Women with Autism Working in IT;
  • Alexis Hiniker for iPads and Early Childhood: Do Interactive Technologies Shrink the “Video Deficit”;
  • Clarita Lefthand-Begay for Understanding Concerns on Genetic Research Among Citizens of the Navajo Nation: Towards a Culturally Centered Genetics Research Policy.

The Strategic Research Fund supports areas of strategic visibility identified in the iSchool Strategic Plan, research in areas with limited opportunities, and/or for pilot projects that increase competitiveness for a planned external research proposal. Each year the Research Committee makes three awards of up to 15K per award. Proposals are accepted for research projects with a maximum one-year plan of work. 

There’s more terrific news for Clarita Lefthand-Begay! She received a Global Innovation Fund 2017-18 award for her research project, A Cross Cultural Comparison of Water Insecurity Impacts on the Health and Culture of Indigenous Peoples: Water, Place, and Culture. She will collaborate with researchers from the School of Social Work, the Intellectual House, and the UW EDGE Center. Congratulations, Clarita!

Jessica Hullman had the following two papers accepted to ACM CHI 2018:

  • Improving Comprehension of Measurements with Concrete Re-expression Strategies. Along with Yea-Seul Kim, Francis Nguyen and Maneesh Agrawala.
  • Uncertainty Displays Using Quantile Dotplots or CDFs Improve Transit Decision-Making. Along with Michael Fernandes, Logan Walls, Sean Munson, and Matt Kay.

Negin Dahya has lots of exciting news to share!

  • She and colleagues had a panel accepted to the Comparative International Education Society (CIES) conference. The panel is titled In/text conversation: teacher training and mobiles phones in Kenyan refugee camps. Negin is both presenter and chair. The conference will take place in Mexico City this March.
  • She recently returned from Washington, D.C. where she was invited to chair a panel on ‘The Right To Education’ with a focus on technology at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Symposium on Protecting the Rights of People Fleeing Conflict.
  • Finally, along with Jin Ha Lee she signed a research contract with Washington State Libraries for $177K to study virtual reality in public libraries in western Washington. The focus will be on informal learning, community engagement and the use of public space with spatial attention to the impact of VR on minoritized communities.