Jake Wobbrock and his Ph.D. student Abdullah Ali just returned from the ACM UIST (User Interface Software and Technology) conference in Berlin, Germany, where they had a co-authored paper accepted, along with Affiliate Professor Meredith Ringel Morris. The paper is titled, “Crowdsourcing similarity judgments for agreement analysis in end-user elicitation studies.” UIST is the premiere venue for technical contributions to human-computer interaction. The overall acceptance rate for papers was 21%.

Jake Wobbrock also just returned from ACM ASSETS in Galway, Ireland, where he had two papers with collaborators from the UW iSchool, UW CSE, and Rochester Institute of Technology (where his former co-advisee Kristen Shinohara is now a professor):

• With Kristen Shinohara and Wanda Pratt: “Incorporating social factors in accessible design.”
• With CSE Ph.D. students Annie Ross and Xiaoyi Zhang, and CSE professor and iSchool Adjunct James Fogarty: “Examining image-based button labeling for accessibility in Android apps through large-scale analysis .” This paper received a best paper nomination (top 5 of 108 submissions).

ASSETS is the premiere venue for contributions in accessible computing. The overall acceptance rate for papers was 26%.

Two of TASCHA’s (Technology and Social Change Group) research scientists, Maria Garrido and Chris Rothschild, started a new project titled, STEM Education for Gender Data Equity in Costa Rica. They will collaborate with TASCHA alumna Araba Sey, who is now at United Nations University, and Sula Batsu Cooperative in Costa Rica. The project will assess the feasibility of technology-based solutions and innovative methodologies to address gender data gaps in areas related to science and technology.

Mike Katell presented “Algorithmic Privacy as Reputation” at the 2018 Amsterdam Privacy Conference (APC 2018). Later this month, he will present “Algorithmic Reputation and Information Equity” at the 2018 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. The theme this year is Building & Sustaining an Ethical Future with Emerging Technology. The meeting will take place in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Nic Weber, Bree Norlander, and Carole Palmer will have a poster presentation at the 2018 ASIS&T Annual Meeting, to take place during the President’s Reception. Their poster is titled, “Advancing Open Data: Aligning Education with Public Sector Data Challenges.”

Jaime Snyder gave an invited presentation titled, "Visualizing Bipolar Disorder: Encoding Personal Data through Co-Design,” to psychiatrists and clinical researchers at the Behavioral Research in Technology and Engineering (BRiTE) Center, which is part of the UW School of Medicine.

Congratulations to Jaime Snyder and Beck Tench whose paper titled, “Personal Informatics in Interpersonal Contexts: Towards the Design of Technology that Supports the Social Ecologies of Long-Term Mental Health Management” was recognized by ACM CSCW 2018 for their efforts to serve underrepresented or marginalized communities. Along with co-authors Elizabeth Murnane (Stanford University), Tara Walker (University of Colorado, Boulder), and Stephen Voida (University of Colorado, Boulder), their paper was only one of five that received recognition. Read more in the medium.com article, Recognition of Contribution to Diversity and Inclusion at CSCW 2018.

Jevin West had a paper accepted to the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) with his co-authors Kai Larsen, Dirk Hovorka and Alan Dennis. The title of the article is “Understanding the Elephant: The Discourse Approach to Boundary Identification and Corpus Construction for Theory Review Articles.”