Research Updates
Oct. 31, 2022
After two years of preparation, Jacob O. Wobbrock will be serving next week as the General Co-Chair for ACM UIST 2022 [uist.acm.org], held in Bend, OR. UIST is the premiere forum for technical contributions in human-computer interaction. Mike Teodorescu's humanitarian medical device SurgiBox...
Oct. 25, 2022
Marika Cifor gave two invited talks about her recent book, Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS [marikacifor.com] (University of Minnesota Press, May 2022) at Simmons University and Dartmouth College. Prerna Juneja’s first authored paper with Tanu Mitra won two recognitions at...
Oct. 7, 2022
Mike Teodorescu received two awards at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2022): Academy of Management Technology Innovation Management Best Paper Award for "Patents and the Independent Inventor Lifecycle" (https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/AMBPP.2022.199...
Sept. 30, 2022
Mike Teodorescu traveled to the University of Cambridge UK School of Law and co-presented research on the first Randomized Control Trial on Independent Inventors ran at the US national level at the US Patent and Trademark Office titled "Challenges facing independent inventors: Do patents help?" in...
Sept. 23, 2022
Temi Odumosu published an essay in Public Memory, Public Art – Reflections on Monuments and Memorial Art Today [artandtheory.org] (Art and Theory Publishing): “On Shadows and Disintegrating Forms: A mixtape for an imperfect moment.” Jason Young, Katie Davis, Jevin West, Shaun Glaze...
Sept. 13, 2022
Dave Hendry, Aurora Martin (Front and Centered), and Esther Min (Front and Centered) received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC) program grant of $49,999 for Enhancing the Capacity for Environmental and Social Resiliency in Overburdened Communities. Wanda...
Aug. 22, 2022
Megan Finn, in collaboration with Katherine Shilton (University of Maryland), received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2) program grant of $225,929 for the Development of Research Ethics Governance Projects in Computer Science. Katie Davis, along with Mega...
Aug. 12, 2022
Helene Williams is on the advisory board for the Open Negotiation Education for Academic Libraries project, for which the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) funded $238,689 last week with a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian grant. The PI is Katharine Macy, an MLIS alum, who is based at...
Aug. 9, 2022
Nic Weber, Sandra Gesing (University of Illinois at Chicago), Jeffrey C Carver (University of Alabama), Karthik Ram (Regents of the University of California, Berkeley), and Daniel S Katz (Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign) received a National Science Foundation...
July 17, 2022
Batya Friedman presented the opening keynote titled, “Shaping Technology with Moral Imagination: Leveraging the Machinery of Value Sensitive Design” at NAACL 2022 (Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics) on July 11, 2022 in Seattle, WA....
July 1, 2022
Sandy Littletree gave an invited presentation at the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2022): “Indigenous Knowledge Organization.” 20th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Virtual Workshop, JCDL 2022 Conference. June 23, 2022. Sandy Littletree...
June 17, 2022
Emma Spiro, along with colleagues from the Center for an Informed Public (CIP), published an article in the Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media (JQD:DM): Kennedy, I., Wack, M., Beers, A., Schafer, J. S., Garcia-Camargo, I., Spiro, E. S., & Starbird, K. (2022). Repeat Spreaders...
June 15, 2022
Marika Cifor’s book, Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS, was named in The Atlantic as one of nine books by which to better understand viruses and pandemics: “The Thin Line Between Sickness and Health.” Marika Cifor will be in conversation about her book, Viral Cultures,...
May 27, 2022
Tanu Mitra gave an invited keynote talk at the FEVER workshop (Fact Extraction and VERification) at ACL 2022. Her talk was titled, “Problematic Information on Social Media Platforms: Understanding and Countering.” Jevin West gave an invited lecture at the annual conference for the...
May 23, 2022
Heather Whiteman has the following news to share this week: She received a Fulbright Scholar Award which begins this June 2022. She will spend Summer 2022 and Winter 2023 quarters as a program director and will be designing, delivering, and standing up a master’s level specialization...