Jason Yip, Jin Ha Lee and Chris Coward received $326,495 from the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) for their proposal titled “Supporting the Development of Youth Digital Civic Engagement in LIbraries Through the Co-Design of Table-Top Games.” 

Lucy Lu Wang received $75,000 for the project “AI-Driven Accessibility Solutions for STEM Educational Materials: Bridging Accessibility Gaps for Blind and Visually Impaired Students.”  

Tanu Mitra received $100,000 for the project “Tools for Proactive Preparedness to Support Online Information Integrity Work in the LLM-Era.”  

Jacob Wobbrock received $75,000 for the project “Exploring AI-Enhanced Mixed-Ability Social Interactions.”  

Jacob O. Wobbrock, and his co-authors Andrew D. Wilson, and Young Li, won 2024 Lasting Impact Award at the Association for Computing Machinery, User Interface Software and Technology Conference (ACM UIST) 2024, held in Pittsburgh, PA, from October 13-16, 2024. for a paper from 2007 titled "Gestures without libraries, toolkits or training: a $1 recognizer for user interface prototypes". This annual award is presented to only one paper older than 10 years that had a major impact on the field of user interface software and technology. Jacob also gave a talk at the same conference titled "Making possible things easy.” 

Stacey Wedlake and co-authors Chris Coward and Jin Ha Lee’s paper titled “How Games Can Support Misinformation Education: A Sociocultural Perspective” was published in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 

Jason Yip and co-authors Chimezie Amaefule, Jan Britzwein, and Garvin Brod’s paper titled “Children’s Perspectives on Self-Regulated Learning: A Co-Design Study on Children’s Expectations Toward Educational Technology” was published in Education and Information Technologies.

Chirag Shah and co-authors Sahil Verma, Varich Boonsanong, Minh Hoang, Keegan Hines, and John Dickerson’s paper titled “Counterfactual Explanations and Algorithmic Recourses for Machine Learning: A Review” was published in ACM Computing Surveys.  

Lucy Lu Wang and co-authors Yue Guo, Tal August, Gondy Leroy, and Trevor Cohen’s paper titled “APPLS: Evaluating Evaluation Metrics for Plain Language Summarization” has been accepted to EMNLP 2024. 

Nassim Parvin and co-authors Sylvia Janicki and Shubhangi Gupta’s paper titled “Reflexive Data Walks: Cultivating Feminist Ethics through Place-Based Inquiry” was accepted to the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW).

Jason Yip and co-authors Yeonhee Cho, Michele Newman, Caroline Pitt, and Jin Ha Lee’s paper titled “You are Tilted!: Leveraging Tabletop Gaming to Manage Tilt and Strengthen Team Dynamics in ESports,” was accepted to CHI PLAY 2024.  

Jason Yip and co-authors Michele Newman, Lidia Morris, Jun Kato, Masataka Goto, and Jin Ha Lee’s paper titled “Purposeful Play: Evaluation and Co-Design of Casual Music Creation Applications with Children,” was accepted to International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2024).  

Bingbing Wen (PhD Student) and co-authors Bill Howe and Lucy Lu Wang’s paper titled "Characterizing LLM Abstention Behavior in Science QA with Context Perturbations” has been accepted to EMNLP Findings 2024. 

Anukriti Kumar (PhD Student) and Lucy Lu Wang’s paper titled “Uncovering the New Accessibility Crisis in Scholarly PDFs: Publishing Model and Platform Changes Contribute to Declining Scholarly Document Accessibility in the Last Decade” has been accepted to ACM ASSETS 2024. 

Jason Yip gave a keynote titled “Playful Designs: The Role of Participatory Design and Children in Co-Designing New Technologies,” at the Listen, Learn, Act Meeting hosted by the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF).  

Aylin Caliskan was invited to an expert conversation webinar on Gender, Data, and Equity at the Gender Equity Unit of Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health. 

Lucy Lu Wang spoke on a panel for Zendy and the Association of University Presses on the topic of “Navigating AI in Publishing: Best Practices and Use cases for IP Management, Equity, and Accessibility.” 

Tessa Rose Campbell spoke on a panel for the American Indian Science & Engineering Society (AISES) National Conference titled “Indigenous Health, Relationality, and Social Media: Indigenous Health Information Sharing on TikTok.” 

Lucy Lu Wang was quoted in the article “Has your paper been used to train an AI model? Almost certainly” in Nature News.