Jake Wobbrock presented to about 150 people at the Puget Sound SIGCHI local chapter a talk entitled, “Ability-Based Design: Making Technologies Match All People’s Abilities and Context.” The event was the best attended in the Puget Sound SIGCHI speaker series to-date. It was held in the UW HUB and co-sponsored by the UW Information School.

Chris Holstrom was awarded an LIS Education and Data Science for the National Digital Platform (LEADS-4-NDP) research fellowship. Chris will work with the Digital Curation Innovation Center (DCIC) at the University of Maryland’s iSchool to extract and analyze metadata from archival documents using Natural Language Processing (NLP).

Hyerim Cho, Marc Schmalz, Stephen Keating, and Jin Ha Lee had a paper accepted to Journal of Documentation titled, “Analyzing Anime Users’ Online Forum Queries for Recommendation Using Content Analysis.”

Anna Lauren Hoffmann's essay Data Violence and How Bad Engineering Choices Can Damage Society appeared in Medium as a Member Featured Story. Featured Stories are a section of the platform devoted to identifying, commissioning, and featuring new work by both emergent and established voices. The engagement so far has been great, with the piece attracting at least a couple thousand readers so far.