Amy Ko and co-authors Brad Myers, Michael Coblenz and Htet Htet Aung’s paper titled “An Exploratory Study of How Developers Seek, Relate, and Collect Relevant Information During Software Maintenance Tasks” received a Most Influential Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.
Itza Carbajal (PhD student) and co-authors Tara Saleh, Yubing Tian (PhD student), Marika Cifor, and Ricardo Gomez’s paper titled “A Labyrinth of Public Information: A Cross-Case Analysis of Ongoing Research and Advocacy Using Public Records Requests,” was published in the Journal of Civic Information.
Jacob Wobbrock and co-authors Ather Sharif, Venkatesh Potluri, Jazz Rui Xia Ang, and Jennifer Mankoff’s paper titled “TOUCHPAD MAPPER: Examining Information Consumption From 2D Digital Content Using Touchpads by Screen-Reader Users,” received the Best Demo Award at the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS ‘24).
Jacob Wobbrock and co-authors Arnavadi Chheda-Kothary, and Jon Froehlich’s paper titled “Engaging with Children’s Artwork in Mixed Visual-Ability Families” received a Best Paper Award at the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS ‘24).
Tessa Rose Campbell (PhD student) is the author of the forthcoming book chapter titled “Planting Seeds of Change to Help Grow the Field of Librarianship” as part of the book Critical Race Theory in LIS: Challenging White Supremacy in Libraries, set to be published by Emerald Publishing in 2025.
Erin Beneteau (PhD student) was invited to join an international panel of researchers and participated in the research symposium titled “Topics and Methods Underrepresented in the AAC Research Field of Today: AAC Qualitative Research Methods Across Disciplines” at the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communications (ISAAC).
Karen Fisher was interviewed in the New York Times article “Librarians Face a Crisis of Violence and Abuse” where she discussed her IMLS-funded project on how library staff are being impacted by trauma in the workplace. She also appeared on CBS Los Angeles Morning News to share about this research, in a segment titled “A Look at How Librarians Nationwide Face New Threats.”
Kyra Wilson (PhD student) and Aylin Caliskan were interviewed for an article titled “AI Overwhelmingly Prefers White and Male Job Candidates in New Test of Resume-Screening Bias,” published in GeekWire.
Chirag Shah was mentioned in an article titled “OpenAI Brings a New Web Search Tool to ChatGPT,” published in the MIT Technology Review.