Alexis Hiniker is a UW Royalty Research Fund recipient! She was awarded $39,000 to study “Preventing Unintended and Malicious Audio Capture on Android Devices.” Congratulations, Alexis! Also this week, her interview for the Top of the Mind with Julie Rose podcast on BYU Radio aired. The segment is titled, Apps for Kids Are Not All Bad.   

Nick Logler and Daisy Yoo are traveling to the DIS 2018 conference in Hong Kong to present the pictorial paper, “Metaphor Cards: A how-to-guide for making and using a generative metaphorical design toolkit.”

Daisy Yoo will also participate in:

• “Designing for Social Change” panel with Tawanna Dillahunt, Sarah Fox, Tad Hirsch, and Phoebe Sengers.
• “Time, Temporality, & Slowness: Future Directions for Design Research” workshop with Will Odom, and others.

Amy Ko and her lab just had the following three papers accepted to the ACM International Computing Education Research Conference (ICER):

• “On Use of Theory in Computing Education Research” by Greg L. Nelson and Amy J. Ko.
• “Experiences of Computer Science Transfer Students” by Harrison Kwik, Benjamin Xie, and Amy J. Ko.
• “Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Teaching Inclusive Design” by Alannah Oleson, Christopher Mendez, Zoe Steine-Hanson, Claudia Hilderbrand, Christopher Perdriau, Margaret Burnett, and Amy J. Ko.

Amy Ko also gave a keynote presentation and invited talk for her Most Influential Paper award at the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering in Gothenburg, Sweden. She blogged about both on medium.com:

• Grand challenges in program comprehension and software repository mining: my keynote on interdisciplinarity and research relevance.
• Ten years after the Whyline.

Michelle Martin and J. Elizabeth Mills had the following piece published in the inaugural issue of Research on Diversity in Youth Literature: "Like Raindrops on Granite": A Dialogic Analysis of Full Cicada Moon as Crossover Scholarship.

Katie Campana, Liz Mills, and Michelle Martin published an article about their IMLS grant, Project LOCAL, in ALSC's journal Children & Libraries titled, ECRR outside the library: Providing meaningful family-focused community outreach.

Jake Wobbrock gave the year-end invited Distinguished Lecture in the Technology and Social Behavior (TSB) program at Northwestern University last week. His talk was entitled, “Ability-Based Design: Designing for all people’s abilities and situations.”

Jake Wobbrock also had his article with Krzysztof Gajos, Shaun Kane, and Gregg Vanderheiden on Ability-Based Design appear in the June issue of the Communications of the ACM. You can see it online here (or as PDF). It has reportedly started a lengthy ongoing conversation in the product groups at Microsoft about how they approach accessibility.

Finally, Jake Wobbrock and co-authors had two papers accepted at ACM ASSETS 2018, to be presented in Galway, Ireland in October:

1. “Examining image-based button labeling for accessibility in Android apps through large-scale analysis” with Annie Ross, Xiaoyi Zhang, and James Fogarty.
2. “Incorporating social factors in accessible design” with Kristen Shinohara and Wanda Pratt.