Research Updates
![Batya Friedman](/sites/default/files/2022-03/FriedmanBatya250.jpg)
March 14, 2022
Batya Friedman presented a keynote at the iConference last week titled “Structure, Scale, and Time: iSchools, Artificial Intelligence, and which Future.” Jochen Scholl had a peer-reviewed book chapter published titled "Digital Government Research: A Diverse Domain" in Y. Charalabidis,...
![Dave Hendry](/sites/default/files/2022-03/HendryDave250.jpg)
March 6, 2022
Dave Hendry and Esther Min (UW School of Public Health/Front and Centered) were awarded a Living Landscapes Incubator grant of $25,000 for Toward the Design of a Sociotechnical Platform for Environmental Reporting, Response, and Action to Support Thriving Communities. Chris Coward, Julie Kientz...
![Chirag Shah and Yunhe Feng](/sites/default/files/2022-02/chirag_yunhe180_0.png)
Feb. 22, 2022
Chirag Shah and Yunhe Feng were interviewed for a UW News article titled, “Google’s ‘CEO’ image search gender bias hasn’t really been fixed.” Yunhe Feng was awarded an iSchool Strategic Research Fund (SRF) Proposal Development grant of $4,000 for Investigating Fairness and...
![Bill Howe](/sites/default/files/2022-02/HoweBill200x200.jpg)
Feb. 14, 2022
Bill Howe was included in a list of “leading academic data leaders” by Chief Data Officer Magazine: “CDO Magazine Announces Its 2022 List of Leading Academic Data Leaders.” Katherine Cross published an editorial in Sociological Review's COVID Refigurations issue about how the pandemic...
![Jacob O. Wobbrock](/sites/default/files/2022-01/WobbrockJake250.jpg)
Jan. 18, 2022
Jacob O. Wobbrock published a 70-page journal article in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI): Vatavu, R.-D. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2022). Clarifying agreement calculations and analysis for end-user elicitation studies. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 29 (1). Article...
![Clockwise, from top left: Sandy Littletree, Carole Palmer, Miranda Belarde-Lewis and Nicholas Weber](/sites/default/files/2022-01/DSISS180_0.jpg)
Jan. 10, 2022
Carole Palmer, Miranda Belarde-Lewis, Sandy Littletree, Nicholas Weber, Christopher Teuton (UW American Indian Studies), and Tami Hohn (UW American Indian Studies) received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation award of $500,000 for Data Services for Indigenous Scholarship and Sovereignty. Christopher...
![Karen Fisher](/sites/default/files/2021-12/FisherKaren250.jpg)
Dec. 13, 2021
Karen Fisher and Ayat Nashwan have been awarded a $50,000 Foundational Integrity Research program grant by Facebook for Digital Literacy and Social Media UX of Marginalized Women and Girls in Jordan. Amy J. Ko published a new book titled Critically Conscious Computing: Methods for Secondary...
![Aylin Caliskan](/sites/default/files/2021-12/Aylin200.jpg)
Dec. 6, 2021
Aylin Caliskan had two papers published at EMNLP 2021 and presented them at the conference last month: Robert Wolfe and Aylin Caliskan. “Low Frequency Names Exhibit Bias and Overfitting in Contextualizing Language Models.” Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP...
![Jackson Brown and Nic Weber](/sites/default/files/2021-11/Brown_Weber.jpg)
Nov. 22, 2021
Jackson Brown and Nic Weber had their open-source software project CDP accepted into the Code for Science & Society’s public interest tech incubator. Read more here: https://incubator.codeforscience.org/cohort Tanu Mitra gave a keynote at a workshop organized by Google on “Long-term...
![Chirag Shah](/sites/default/files/2021-11/ShahChirag250.jpg)
Nov. 8, 2021
ASIS&T launched Information Matters, for which Chirag Shah is the Founding Editor-in-Chief. Chirag has also been elected as the Chair for SIG-AI. Sandy Littletree was a panelist for an ASIS&T 2021 SIG-HFIS session: “Welcome to Information Science.” ASIS&T Annual Meeting...
![Batya Friedman](/sites/default/files/2021-11/FriedmanBatya250.jpg)
Nov. 1, 2021
Batya Friedman, Ryan Calo (Law School), and Tadayoshi Kohno (Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering) received a gift of $350K from Microsoft Corporation to support the Tech Policy Lab at the University of Washington (2021 - 2022). Of the total amount, $116,666 will come to the...
![Tanu Mitra](/sites/default/files/2021-10/MitraTanu180.jpg)
Oct. 25, 2021
Tanu Mitra and Shruti Phadke received a Best Paper Honorable Mention award at ACM CSCW 2021: Shruti Phadke, Mattia Samory, Tanu Mitra. 2021. Characterizing Social Imaginaries and Self-Disclosures of Dissonance in Online Conspiracy Discussion Communities. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. Computer...
![Anind Dey](/sites/default/files/2021-10/DeyAnind_2021_200.jpg)
Oct. 18, 2021
Anind Dey, Ian Li (Carnegie Mellon University), and Jodi Forlizzi (Carnegie Mellon University) received a 10-year impact award at UbiComp/ISWC 2021 for their paper (published in 2011) “Understanding My Data, Myself: Supporting Self-Reflection with Ubicomp Technologies.” Anind Dey gave the...
![Stacey Wedlake](/sites/default/files/2021-10/WedlakeStacey250.jpg)
Oct. 4, 2021
Stacey Wedlake and partner organizations presented “’Help is really necessary’: Case study of a technology distribution program for unemployed workers” at DIPRC2021: Digital Inclusion Policy and Research Conference. Stacey Wedlake and research partners from the Seattle Jobs Initiative,...
![Jason Yip and Alexis Hiniker](/sites/default/files/2021-09/Yip_Hiniker200.jpg)
Sept. 27, 2021
Julie Kientz (UW HCDE), Jason Yip, and Alexis Hiniker are collaborating on the new Connecting the EdTech Research EcoSystem (CERES) Network, an $11M initiative funded by the Jacobs Foundation. Of the $11M total award to the University of California, Irvine, $500,000 will come to the University of...