Martin Saveski received a $40,000 award from the UW Royalty Research Fund for his project titled “Evaluating the Effects of Introducing AI in a Real-World Crowdsourced Fact-Checking System.”
Wes King received a Distinguished Teaching Award at the University of Washington Awards of Excellence for their work with students in core Informatics courses as well as the Special Topics course they designed on AI, Robots, and Religion that draws on their current research exploring relationships between Faith and AI.
Kyra Wilson (PhD Student) has been named a 2026 Apple Scholar in AIML PhD fellowship, recognized in the category of AI for Ethics and Fairness.
Shahan Ali Memon (PhD Student) and co-authors Jevin West and Cailin O’Connor’s paper titled “Are Widely Known Findings Easier to Retract?” was accepted to the Philosophy of Science Journal PSA 2024 Symposium issue.
Jaime Snyder and co-authors Seth Asafo, Dzifa Attah, Pamela Collins, Angela Ofori-Atta, and Dror Ben-Zeev's paper titled “Sociolinguistic Coordination Devices in Cross-Cultural Co-Design Interactions,” was published in CoDesign.
Jaime Snyder and Sanonda Datta Gupta’s paper titled “Sleep-Trackers in the Wild: A Faceted Taxonomy for Information and Interaction Design,” was published in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology.
Jaime Snyder and co-authors Chelsea Ng, Julia Dunbar (iSchool PhD Alumni), Lily Jeffs (iSchool Informatics Alumni), Sanaa Syed (iSchool Informatics Alumni), Nathan Pan, Hyeyoung Ryu (iSchool PhD Alumni), Jodie Smith, Wanda Pratt, and Ari Pollack’s paper titled “Designing Emotion-Integrated Visualizations for Kidney Function Self-Management: A User-Centered Design Study with Youth Transplant Recipients and Caregivers,” will be published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.
Loki’s Loop Design Research Team released its latest game, The Disappearance of Taro, in Kyoto, Japan, at the Art Bit Exhibition.
Chris Coward and Jinha Lee presented on games and misinformation at the opening Art Bit Exhibition seminar, “Destructive Play and Performance,” organized by Ritsumeikan University.
Ryan Calo gave an opening talk titled “Privacy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,” at the University of Puget Sound’s Symposium on AI & Privacy.
Rachel Moran was interviewed for an article titled “Scammers Hijacked the Identity of Famous Oregon Cancer Doctor to Pitch Ivermectin Online,” published in The Oregonian.