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Oct. 15, 2018

Miranda Belarde-Lewis celebrated the opening of her third exhibition: Preston Singletary: Raven and the Box of Daylight. It is now on view at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma (until October 2019) after which it will travel the country with stops scheduled at the Wichita Art Museum and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.

Miranda Belarde-Lewis was also an invited contributor to the catalog accompanying Nature’s Nations: American Art and Environment, a traveling exhibition organized by the Princeton University Art Museum (now on view through Jan 9, 2019). The 400-page catalog is distributed by Yale University Press.

The iSchool has two Best Paper Honorable Mentions from CSCW 2018!:

  • Jaime Snyder and iSchool student Beck Tench, along with collaborators Liz Murnane (Stanford), Steve Voida (Univ Colorado Boulder), and Tara Walker (student, CU Boulder) for “Personal Informatics in Interpersonal Contexts: Towards the Design of Technology that Supports the Social Ecologies of Long-Term Mental Health Management.”
  • Jason Yip, along with Laura R. Pina, Carmen Gonzalez, Carolina Nieto, Wendy Roldan, and Edgar Onofre for “How Latino Children in the U.S. Engage in Collaborative Online Information Problem Solving with their Families.”

Read the entire list of best papers in the medium.com article, Announcing the Best of CSCW 2018!

J. Elizabeth Mills and Dr. Katie Campana will give the 2018 Keynote Address at the Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy Conference in Denver, Colorado. Their keynote address is titled, "Intentionality, Interactivity, and Community: Building Blocks for Effective Early Learning Programming at Public Libraries."

Amy J. Ko and his Code & Cognition Lab had three research papers accepted at the ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2019):

  • “An Item Response Theory Evaluation of a Language-Independent CS1 Knowledge Assessment” by Benjamin Xie, Matthew J. Davidson, Min Li and Amy J. Ko.
  • “Teaching Accessibility: A Design Exploration of Faculty Professional Development at Scale” by Saba Kawas, Laura Vonessen, and Amy J. Ko.
  • “Teaching Explicit Programming Strategies to Adolescents” by Amy J. Ko, Thomas LaToza, Stephen Hull, Ellen Ko, William Kwok, Jane Quichocho, Harshitha Akkaraju and Rishin Pandit.

Annie Searle spoke on “Addressing Privacy on a Global Scale”, which was part of an executive visions panel at the Predictera Executive Cybersecurity Summit. The summit was held at the Washington State Convention Center.

Karen Fisher gave the following invited keynote addresses and presentations:

  • “Innovation and Futures in the Middle East.” Amazon Ideas Group. Seattle, WA.
  • “Information Literacy in Refugee Camps: Cultural Effects of Gender, Place and Time.” European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL). Oulu, Finland.
  • “Determinants of Information Poverty, Wealth and Resilience in Refugee Camps: Effects of Gender, Place and Time.” Well-being in the information society: Fighting inequalities (WIS 2018). University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University. Turku, Finland.
  • “Ethnographic research among minority groups and positions.” Åbo Akademi University. Turku, Finland.
  • “Information worlds of people displaced by conflict: Views from UNHCR Za’atari Camp, JO. 17th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM). Thessaloniki, Greece.
  • “Syrian youth in Za’atari Refugee Camp as ICT wayfarers: An exploratory study using narrative storytelling and LEGO.” ACM Compass 2018: First Conference on Computing & Sustainable Societies (Formerly, DEV). Facebook, Menlo Park, CA.
  • “How libraries abroad address the worldwide refugee crisis.” 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Library Association, New Orleans, LA.