Jacob O. Wobbrock was ranked #1 out of the top 100 people in Human-Computer Interaction on the AMiner Most Influential Scholar Annual List for influence over the 2007-2017 decade. According to AMiner, “the list is conferred in recognition of outstanding technical achievements with lasting contribution and impact to the research community. In 2018, the winners are among the most-cited scholars whose paper was published in the top venues of their respective subject fields between 2007 and 2017. Recipients are automatically determined by a computer algorithm deployed in the AMiner system that tracks and ranks scholars based on citation counts collected by top-venue publications.”

Bree Norlander of the iSchool’s Technology and Social Change group (TASCHA) participated at the eScience Institute presentation and discussion General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the shifting privacy landscape: What do researchers at the UW need to know?

Jochen Scholl appeared as a featured interview guest on the 30-minute Disaster Zone television show. The show is hosted by Eric Holdeman, one of the nation’s most highly reputed experts on disaster response management. The show is produced by King County TV and watched by professional emergency responders around the nation. The recorded edition of the show is available on YouTube as Disaster Zone: Grading Disaster Response .

Jochen Scholl was also invited to and attended the “Final Stakeholder Workshop” of the multi-disciplinary NSF-funded "M9 Project,” on which the UW had the lead. The project studied, among others, geological, seismological, and tsunami effects of a magnitude 9 Cascadia Subduction Zone rupture, which would severely impact the Seattle area.

Miranda Belarde-Lewis:

• Facilitated a panel discussion at the Henry Art Gallery. The panel featured three Lakota artists as part of the Critical Issues Lecture series, co-hosted by the UW Simpson Center for the Humanities
• Is a contributor to a Princeton University Art Museum exhibition catalog for the exhibit Nature's Nations: American Art and Environment, which was awarded the 2019 PROSE Award by the Association of American Publishers in the category of “Art Exhibitions.”
• Along with Marisa Duarte was a guest on the nationally syndicated tribal radio program Native America Calling in the episode Getting to the truth online. The program explored what to believe online, the issue of fake news, and how it affects Native peoples.

At this year's recent ALA Midwinter Meeting (January 25-29, 2019), Mega Subramaniam and Milly Romeijn-Stout officially launched the ConnectedLib Toolkit, a research-based professional development toolkit that offers youth-serving library staff a free, customizable, and self-paced program to create engaging teen programs and services with digital media. This was made possible with support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and fac­ulty mem­bers from the library and Infor­ma­tion Sci­ence (LIS) schools at the Uni­ver­sity of Wash­ing­ton and Uni­ver­sity of Mary­land, which collaborated with the following pub­lic libraries: Providence Public Library, Seattle Public Library, and Kitsap Regional Library. Katie Davis and Mega Subramaniam are the PIs on this project.

Saba Kawas, Sarah K. Chase, Jason Yip, Joshua J. Lawler, and Katie Davis published Sparking interest: A design framework for mobile technologies to promote children’s interest in nature in International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction.

Abigail C. Evans, Katie Davis, and Jacob O. Wobbrock had “Adaptive support for collaboration on tabletop computers” accepted to Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL '19). The conference will take place in Lyon, France.

The iSchool will be well-represented at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19) coming up May 4-9, 2019 in Glasgow, UK.  The following papers were accepted to the Proceedings of the 37^th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems:

• Katie Davis, Anja Dinhopl, and Alexis Hiniker: “Everything’s the phone: Understanding the phone’s supercharged role in parent-teen relationships.”
• Caroline Pitt, Adam Bell, Edgar Onofre, and Katie Davis: “A badge, not a barrier: Designing for—and throughout—digital badge implementation.”
• J.A. Tran, K.S. Yang, Katie Davis and Alexis Hiniker: “Modeling the engagement-disengagement cycle of compulsive phone use”
• Reem Talhouk, Karen Fisher, Kyle Montague, Suleman Shahid, Konstantin Aal, Anne Weibert, Mike Krieger, Ana Duarte, Volker Wulf, Franziska Tachtler, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed: “Refugees & HCI: Situating HCI Within Humanitarian Research.”
• Jason Yip, Kiley Sobel, Xin Gao, Allison Marie Hishikawa, Alexis Lim, Laura Meng, Romaine Flor Ofiana, Justin Park, and Alexis Hiniker: “Laughing is scary, but farting is cute: A conceptual model of children's perspectives of creepy technologies.”
• Erin Beneteau, Olivia Richards, Mingrui Zhang, Julie A. Kientz, Jason Yip, and Alexis Hiniker: “Communication breakdowns between families and Alexa.”
• Arpita Bhattacharya, Travis Windleharth, Rio Ishii, Ivy Acevedo, Cecilia Aragon, Julie Kientz, Jason Yip, and Jin Ha Lee: “Group interactions in location-based gaming: A case study of raiding in Pokémon GO.“

Katie Davis was quoted in a February BBC article titled “How can a distracted generation learn anything?”

Karen Fisher

• Gave a talk titled “Role of Social Media Tools and Effects of Gender in Conflict Zones” at the International Conference “Media, Technologies, Cooperation–Rethinking publics and publicness in the MENA region” in December 2018 in Siegen University, Germany.
• Gave a talk titled “Pathways from Crisis to Resilience: Field Insights from Longitudinal Ethnography with Syrian Refugees in Jordan” at the Invitational Expert Meeting “Hidden Narratives: From Crisis Response to Social Resilience, Theoretical Perspectives” in November 2018 at the Institute for Societal Resilience Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen, Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• Will give the keynote address at Informatie aan Zee Annual Conference at the VVBAD Flemish Library & Archiving Association, September 2019 in Ostend, Belgium.
• Will publish the chapter titled “Refugee women forging resilience” in the 2019 book Art & Therapy, Empowering Women through Painting – Jordan, Jabal Amman Publishers.
• Had the following accepted:
  • With R. Sass: “Read, UNHCR Za’atari Camp Libraries: A Nascent Refugee-Run System on the Syrian Border” to the Library Research Round Table (LRRT) to the ALA Annual Conference, in June 2019 in Washington, DC.
  • With Michael Babinec and R. Hildebrand: “When You Can't Go Home Again: Refugee and Exile Authors in the U.S.” to the ALA Annual Conference, in June 2019 in Washington, DC.

Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom launched http://www.whichfaceisreal.com, a tool that teaches people how to detect the new AI-generated fake photos of humans. The project has gone viral since launching, with more than 1 million games played over 48 hours. Mashable, The Verge and TechCrunch all published articles with additional coverage expected soon by the Wall Street Journal, national news in Paris, Spain, CBC, Buzzfeed, y-combinator, and many others.

Jason Yip:

• Along with Wendy Roldan, P. Vanegas, Laura Pina, and Carmen Gonzalez, had the paper “The role of funds of knowledge in online search and brokering” accepted to Proceedings of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference (CSCL ’19) to be held in Lyon, France.
• Had two short papers accepted:
  • With Kelly Mills, Elizabeth Bonsignore, Tamara Clegg, June Ahn, Austin Beck, Daniel Pauw, Caroline Pitt, H. Jeong, and C. Orellana: “Social media in the science classroom: Bridging funds of knowledge to scientific concepts“ to the Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL '19), Lyon, France.
  • With Yeqi Chen, Daniela Rosner, and Alexis Hiniker: “Lights, music, stamps!  Evaluating mealtime tangibles for preschoolers“ to the Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’19), Tempe, AZ.
• Published a book chapter titled “The design of digital learning activities for libraries through participatory design” with Kung Jin Lee in the book Reconceptualizing libraries: Perspectives from the information and the learning sciences. Routledge.

Bill Howe published the opinion piece “Protect the public from bias in automated decision systems” in the Seattle Times in February.

Joe Tennis presented "Mutatis Mutandis: Evidence of Authenticity through “Metadata” and its Sources in Records Preservation" at the InterPARES Trust Cuban Workshop in Havana, Cuba. He will present "Domain Analysis and Domain Change: Platform Shift and Alignment Documentation and Knowledge Organization Work" at the Inaugural Domain Analysis Clinic of the Institute for Knowledge Organization and Structure in Milwaukee, Wisconsin this March.

Chris Holstrom published "Is This a Chapter Book?": Parent-Involved Categorization in a Kindergarten Classroom Book Collection in Cataloging and Classification Quarterly. This paper, which analyzes how non-experts organize information, grew out of Ricardo Gomez's Qualitative Methods course and the author's good fortune to observe a fascinating categorization process while volunteering in his daughter's classroom.

Lovely-Frances Domingo published the article Emerging Artificial Intelligence Issues: Discussion from the Third Cybersecurity and Technology Futures Event on the UW Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies website. In this high-level summary, she wrote about the Artificial Intelligence forum Annie Searle moderated. Lovely-Frances is an MSIM student and also a Jackson School Fellow.