Lucy Lu Wang and co-authors Anukriti Kumar, Kate Glazko, Yueran Sun, Mark Harniss, and Jennifer Mankoff’s paper titled “Beyond Readability Metrics: Plain Language Priorities in Disability Advocacy Organizations,” was accepted to ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT 2026).
Lucy Lu Wang and co-authors Donghoon Shin, Bingcan Guo, Jaewook Lee, and Gary Hsieh’s paper titled “ReFinE: Streamlining UI Mockup Iteration with Research Findings,” Was accepted to ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS 2026).
Janet Jiang (CSE Phd Student), advised by Amy Ko, received the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Award.
Miranda Belarde-Lewis and Sandy Littletree gave presentations at the 3rd Annual Bard College Center for Indigenous Studies Symposium: An Invitation to Interconnectedness: Indigenous Approaches to Information, Knowledge, Justice, and Belonging. Miranda Belarde-Lewis delivered the opening keynote, while Sandy Littletree and Marisa Duarte gave the talk "Revisiting Relationality and Intellectual Freedom in Indigenous Information Work: A Presentation and Discussion.”
Izzy Chaiken (PhD Student) and co-authors Aditya Khowal, Neha Sathe, Mark Wurfel, and Lucy Lu Wang’s paper titled “Enhancing Extubation Failure Prediction with LLM-derived Features from Respiratory Therapy Clinical Notes,” was accepted to ALHI Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning (CHIL 2026).
Stacey Wedlake, Chris Jowaisas, and Jason Young ran a pre-conference session titled “Yes, let’s do this!’ and ‘Ugh, no. Do I have to?’: Creating GenAI Literacy Programs for Your Community,” at the Washington Library Association Conference (WLA 2026).
Sandy Littletree and Joshua Brown (Postdoctoral Scholar) presented “Infrastructure to Address Relational Accountability: Supporting Indigenous Data Needs,” at the US Indigenous Data Sovereignty & Governance Summit 2026.
Cindy Aden and Sandy Littletree gave an invited talk titled “Neighboring Washington Tribal Libraries,” at the Washington Public Library Directors Meeting, where they shared insights from five years working together on the Centering Washington Tribal Libraries project and the Neighboring Tribal Libraries project.
Ben Lee gave an invited talk titled “Toward an AI Commons for Libraries: Where We Are and Where We Might Go from Here,” at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln Libraries.
Ben Lee gave an invited talk titled “AI & The Future of Holocaust Memory: Reflections, Provocations, Refusals,” at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln 11th Annual Nebraska Forum on Digital Humanities.
Sandy Littletree and Joshua Brown (Postdoctoral Scholar), co-presented the 2026 iConference Indigenous Research Collective Workshop titled “Infrastructure to Address Relational Accountability: Supporting Indigenous Data Needs.”
Ali Durran and Rachel Moran were panelists in a workshop titled “World Cafe: Countering Misinformation and Building Trust Through Civil Dialogue,” at the Society for Public Health Education Annual Conference (SOPHE 2026).