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Fri, 02/24/2023
HCDE Professor Cindy Atman presents at Extraordinary Engineering Impacts on Society symposium
HCDE Professor Cindy Atman presented her research on Design Signatures at the National Science Foundation's 2022 Extraordinary Engineering Impacts on Society symposium. Atman's Design Signatures project aims to help designers track activities in their design processes, helping them visualize their processes to become better designers over time. View a recording of the presentation here.
Tue, 02/14/2023
HCDE PhD alumnus Kai Lukoff receives SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award
HCDE PhD alumnus Dr. Kai Lukoff has received an ACM SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award. Lukoff's dissertation focused on how people can gain greater control over the time they spend with digital technology.
Wed, 02/01/2023
PhD student Leslie Coney receives Google Health Equity award to design for Black maternal health
Leslie Coney, a second-year PhD student in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering, has received a research award from the newly announced Google Health Equity Research Initiative. This grant supports Coney's work aimed at connecting Black birthing individuals with non-hospital care networks.
Wed, 02/01/2023
HCDE alumna Alexis Hope named USA Fellow in Architecture & Design
HCDE alumna Dr. Alexis Hope (BS '10, MS '12) has been named a 2023 United States Artists Fellow in the category of Architecture & Design. The prestigious fellowship honors creative accomplishments of artists and supports their ongoing artistic and professional development.
Tue, 01/31/2023
HCDE mourns the loss of Karen Kasonic
HCDE mourns the loss of alumna Karen Kasonic who passed away on January 14, 2023, after a long struggle with breast cancer.
Mon, 01/30/2023 | UW Electrical & Computer Engineering
HCDE Professor Nadya Peek awarded CoMotion Innovation Gap Fund
Levity Technologies, a project led by UW Electrical & Computer Engineering researchers and HCDE Assistant Professor Nadya Peek, has received a $50k grant from the UW CoMotion Innovation Gap Fund. Levity is revolutionizing sample mixing in biology labs with robotics, improving yields and accuracy.
Sat, 01/28/2023 | UW Magazine
Alumna Rachel Barnecut featured in UW Magazine
HCDE alumna Rachel Barnecut (BS ’12, MS ’18) is featured in UW Magazine about her career transition to entrepreneurship. In the interview with fellow alumna Aleenah Ansari (BS '19), Barnecut discusses creating Matcha Magic, a plant-based Matcha bar located in Bellevue.
Wed, 01/11/2023
HCDE Professor Julie Kientz is UW lead on new AI Institute for Children with Speech, Language Disorders
Julie Kientz is the UW lead on the AI Institute for Exceptional Education, a new multi-campus institute that will create artificial intelligence technologies for children with speech and language processing challenges. Collaborating with Kientz at UW is Electrical & Computer Engineering Professor Mari Ostendorf.
Fri, 12/02/2022
Improving trust in COVID vaccines with research summaries
A UW research team led by HCDE PhD student Spencer Williams is working with the public to design research summaries that improve awareness and trust in COVID vaccine safety research.
Thu, 12/01/2022
HCDE researchers studying equitable automated speech recognition among African American English speakers
HCDE researchers Jay Cunningham, Daniela Rosner, and Julie Kientz have received a grant from Google Research to develop equitable, community-collaborative design methods to mitigate racial disparities in automated speech recognition technologies.