Isaac Slaughter and co-authors Axel Peytavin, Johan Ugander, and Martin Saveski’s paper titled “Community Notes Reduce Engagement with and Diffusion of False Information Online” was published in PNAS.
Nassim Parvin and co-authors Laura Foster and Anne Pollock’s essay titled “Catalyst Lead Editing as Creative Worldbulding” was published in Catalyst’s 20th Anniversary issue.
Jin Ha Lee and co-authors Nisha Devasia, Georgia Kenderova, Michele Newman (PhD Student), and Julie Kientz’s paper titled “I Would Not Be This Version of Myself Today’: Elaborating on the Effects of Eudaimonic Gaming Experiences,” was accepted to the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY) 2025. Their paper was also featured in the UW News article titled “Q&A: How Video Games Can Lead People to More Meaningful Lives.”
Chris Coward and co-authors Nisha Devasia and Jin Ha Lee’s paper titled “Escape Rooms for Misinformation Education: A Case Study of Co-Design with Two Communities,” was accepted to the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) Conference 2025.
Lidia Morris (PhD Student) and co-authors Michele Newman (PhD Student), Xinya Tang (PhD student), Renee Singh, Marcel Velez Vasquez, Rebecca Leger, and Jin Ha Lee’s paper titled “Expanding the HAISP Dataset: AI’s Impact on Songwriting Across Two Contests,” was presented at the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR) 2025.
Saloni Dash (PhD Student) and co-authors Alejandro Cuevas, Bharat Kumar Nayek, Dan Vann, and Madeleine Daepp’s paper titled “Anecdoctoring: Automated Red-Teaming Across Language and Place,” was accepted to the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2025.
Nassim Parvin and co-authors Sylvia Janicki and Shughangi 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 and Social Computing (CSCW) 2025.
Nassim Parvin’s paper titled “Expression and Erasure: AI, English, and the Shaping of Digital Futures” was accepted to the Sixth Decennial Aarhus Conference: Computing X Crisis.
Nassim Parvin and co-authors Mohsin Yousufi and Charlotte Alexander’s paper titled “Credibility Boosters as a Lens for Understanding Epistemic Injustice in Civic Tech: The Case of Heat Seek,” was accepted to ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) 2025.
Chirag Shah gave a keynote titled “Beyond Chatbots: Building Personal, Proactive, and Purposeful AI Agents” at the Digital Humanities International Forum in Beijing, China.
Tracie D. Hall moderated a panel titled “CALMA Round Table: Mapping the Black Information Future: From Archives to Artificial Intelligence, from Movement-building to Memory-work" featuring noted librarian, archivist, and historical landmark registrar Makiba J. Foster, Steven F. Fullwood, and Jada Jones, respectively. This talk was part of the Black Information Futures Planning Initiative.
Jin Ha Lee was a panelist on a panel titled “Dungeons and Disinformation: Games as Learning Environments for Disinformation Literacy” at PAX West 2025. This panel was also featured in the KUOW episode and story titled “Dungeons & Dragons and Disinformation: How Gaming Can Combat the Misinformation Age.”
Jin Ha Lee, Michele Newman (PhD Student), Lane Koughan (PhD Student), and Caroline Pitt (Postdoctoral Scholar) presented a session titled “The Other UW: Where Games Meet Learning – User-centered, Community-focused projects from the University of Washington” at the Make Play Learn Conference (MPL) 2025.