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Dec. 16, 2022

Jevin West was an invited panelist for the Council of State Governments annual conference. The audience included state representatives from around the U.S. and Canada. The topic of the panel was “Setting the Record Straight: Combatting Disinformation.” 

Jevin West was an invited panelist at Northwestern University on Inequalities and Science. This was an event sponsored by the Center for Human-Computer Interaction and Design and the Center for Science of Science. 

Jevin West was an invited panelist for the Council of State Governments annual conference. This included state representatives from around the U.S. and Canada. The topic of the panel was “Setting the Record Straight: Combatting Disinformation.” 

Hans Jochen Scholl was awarded IFIP Fellow Status. Recognizing his outstanding academic contributions and his standing in the field of information processing the General Assembly of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) elevated Hans Jochen Scholl to the status of IFIP Fellow.

The Federation's most prestigious award and distinction is the title of IFIP Fellow, which is conferred by the IFIP General Assembly on a current or past member of an IFIP body (e.g. WG, TC, GA, Domain Committee, IP3) in recognition of outstanding contributions in the field of information processing, in the role of a Technical Leader, Scientist, Engineer, or Educator. Established in 1960 under the auspices of UNESCO, IFIP is the global organization for researchers and professionals working in the field of information and communication technologies. Recognized by the United Nations, IFIP links some 50 national and international societies and academies of science with a total membership of over half a million professionals. 

In 2021, Hans Jochen Scholl had already received the IFIP Service Award for his longstanding and impactful service to the field, in general, and inside IFIP working groups, in particular. In 2020, the Digital Government Society had also recognized Jochen's academic impact on the field by making him an inaugural Fellow of this distinct professional society. More information on 2022 IFIP Fellows can be found here. Congratulations, Jochen!

Jevin West was an invited panelist at Northwestern University on Inequalities and Science. This was an event sponsored by the Center for Human-Computer Interaction and Design and the Center for Science of Science. 

Jason Yip was an invited panelist at Meta Summit 2022: Yip, J.C. (2022, December). How co-designing is at the core of building responsibly. [Invited panelist]. Meta Summit 2022 on Youth Safety and Well-being, Washington, DC, USA.

Jason Yip was an invited participant at the Jacobs Foundation CERES Research Fellowship Meeting: Yip, J.C. (2022, September). [Invited participant], Jacobs Foundation CERES Research Fellowship Meeting, Irvine, California, USA.

Annie Searle has accepted a guest columnist position with London-based The Risk Universe monthly e-newsletter for banking and finance, starting this month. Her first column is titled “2022 and America. Other stories in the issue include one on what banks might owe their Zelle victims, the FTX cryptocurrency controls failure, and the latest Barclays fine.

Jason Yip has the following publications to share:

  • Dahya, N., Roldan, W., Lee, J.H., Yip, J., Luke, J., Joya, A., Patiño-Liu, D.M., & Summerlin, E. (2022). Virtual reality and youth incarceration: Methodological reflections from a media education & research program. Canadian Journal of Communications.
    https://doi.org/10.3138/cjc.2022-0010
    [h5-index -14, Impact factor - 0.54] [PDF]
  • Roldan, W., Lee, K.J., Berhe, L., Nguyen, K., & Yip, J.C. (2022). Disrupting informal computing education: Teen-led co-design in libraries. ACM Transactions on Computing Education.
    https://doi.org/10.1145/3484494
    [h5-index - 26, Impact factor - 3.45] [PDF]
  • Fails, J.A., Ratakonda, D.K., Koren, N., Elsayed-Ali, S., Bonsignore, E., & Yip, J.C. (2022). Pushing boundaries of co-design by going online: Lessons learned and reflections from three perspectives. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2022.100476
    [h5-index - 26 , Impact factor - 3.87] [PDF]
  • Lee, J.H., Yip, J.C., Moore, A., de Jong, Z., Kobashigawa, R., Escalara, A., & Cho, J. (2022). Understanding users’ perspectives on ethical issues related to playing location-based augmented reality games: A case study of Pokémon GO. International Journal of Human Computer Interaction.
    https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2021.2012378
    [h5-index - 36, Impact factor - 1.26] [PDF]
  • Rubegni, E., Malinverni, L., & Yip, J.C. (2022). “Don’t let the robots walk our dogs, but it’s ok for them to do our homework”: Children’s perceptions, fears, and hopes in social robots. In ACM Interaction Design and Children (IDC 2022).
    [h5-index - 28] [PDF]

Along with curators and graduate assistants Andrea Berg and Leslie Harka, Hans Jochen Scholl published version 18.5 of the semiannually updated Digital Government Reference Library (DGRL). DGRL collects and represents references to peer-reviewed articles in the English language published in academic outlets around the world. The library now contains 17,987 references in the study domains of digital government, digital governance, and digital democracy. The new version marks a 4.7% increase in references from version 18.0 (June of 2022) and an 8.8% increase from version 17.5 (December of 2021). This past publication period has yet been another good one for Digital Government-related publishing adding another 4-digit number (1,456) of new peer-reviewed academic references within the past 12 months.

Stefania Druga was a panelist at Empower Learners for the Age of AI (ELAI) 2022. The topic of the panel was “The Importance of AI-Literacy for AI in Education.”

Chirag Shah and Emily Bender (UW Linguistics) coauthored an op-ed piece for The Institute of Art and Ideas (IAI): ”All-knowing machines are a fantasy.”

Jevin West wrote an op-ed piece for The Seattle Times talking about the changing social media landscape. 

Stefania Druga’s research was featured in a recent Forbes piece: “Amazon Alexa Wants To Put Your Child To Bed With Generative AI Storytelling.”

Chirag Shah was interviewed by The Indian Express: “OpenAI’s ChatGPT is seen as a path-breaking AI tool. But experts say that’s far from the truth.”

Chirag Shah was interviewed by TechTarget: “Lensa AI app mixes up data, privacy and representation.”

Jevin West was quoted in the New York Times about iNaturalist, one of the nicest places on the internet and potentially a model for how to come to nano-agreements.