News

Wed, 03/10/2021

In March 2021, the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering welcomed Professor Helen Nissenbaum as the Department's 2021 Distinguished Speaker. Watch Professor Nissenbaum's presentation, "Contextual Integrity: Breaking the Grip of Public-Private Distinction for Meaningful Privacy."

Tue, 03/09/2021

For a new community-building initiative, HCDE launched "HCDE Around the World," a new Instagram account for members of the community to share bits of their life from wherever they are today.

Wed, 03/03/2021 | UW News

The Election Integrity Partnership, a nonpartisan coalition of researchers including HCDE Associate Professor Kate Starbird and the UW Center for an Informed Public, released its final report, “The Long Fuse: Misinformation and the 2020 Elections.” The report is the culmination of months of collaboration among approximately 120 people working across four organizations.

Mon, 02/22/2021 | College of Engineering

HCDE PhD candidate Os Keyes unpacks how and where bias occurs in artificial intelligence. Spoiler: it’s everywhere.

Fri, 02/19/2021

The new collaboration with UserTesting will provide students in HCDE with a new tool to conduct user research in courses including usability studies and capstone. The UserTesting platform will enable students to gain real-time feedback from real humans around the world.

Tue, 01/26/2021 | UW Graduate School

HCDE master's student Devin Ajimine and @MHCI+D grad Marisa Chentakul teamed up to create Uplift Locally, a website to find local, Black-owned businesses through an interactive map. What began as a Washington-based directory now shares more than 3,000 Black-owned restaurants in 39 states. Read how their education in human-centered design helped them go about this project.

Tue, 01/12/2021

Presented by HCDE alumni Ashley Boone and Monica Posluszny, with Assistant Teaching Professor Irini Spyridakis, one HCDE project explored STEM outreach with underrepresented communities through play, creativity, and movement, and the other explored VR to promote sustainability, behavior, and climate change understanding among college students.

Mon, 01/11/2021

As a Twitch Research Fellow, HCDE PhD student Keri Mallari will receive a $10,000 award and a mentorship connection with a scientist at Twitch to help support her independent academic research. 

Wed, 12/16/2020

Julie Kientz, HCDE professor and chair, has been named a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery, the world's largest and most prestigious society of computing professionals. The Distinguished Member honor recognizes individuals who have achieved significant accomplishments or have made a significant impact on the computing field.

Fri, 12/04/2020

Over the next two months, HCDE Master's student Della Sigrest and fellow finalists in the IxDA's Student Design Charette will work to address the challenge: "How might we achieve greater collective wellbeing through the power of our individual data?"

Mon, 11/30/2020

Sun, 11/22/2020

On November 19, 2020, HCDE hosted a webinar about the state of HCDE today—what our operations look like during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how HCDE researchers have pivoted to pandemic-responsive research. In a conversation moderated by HCDE Teaching Professor Brock Craft, hear from HCDE Professor and Chair Julie Kientz about how families are using technology at home during the pandemic; Associate Professor Charlotte P. Lee about how employees and employers are adapting to remote work; and Associate Professor Kate Starbird about how misinformation and disinformation related to the pandemic is spreading online.

Fri, 11/13/2020

A new grant will support HCDE Assistant Professor Nadya Peek and Joshua Smith, Professor in Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering, in the development of open-source, customizable co-bots to enable experts to develop their own automated processes and experiments.

Fri, 11/06/2020

HCDE Associate Professor Leah Findlater, PhD students Lotus Zhang and Steven Goodman, PhD alumna Cynthia L. Bennett received awards at ASSETS 2020, the International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility.

Wed, 10/21/2020

HCDE Assistant Professor Nadya Peek is on an interdisciplinary team of chemical engineers and chemists to create and demonstrate modular bioreactor technologies that can allow biorefineries and fermentation facilities to repurpose infrastructure and resources for distributed bio-manufacturing.

Thu, 10/15/2020

HCDE PhD students Caitlin Lustig, Andrew Neang, Will Sutherland, Michael Beach, and Associate Professor Charlotte Lee are recognized with paper awards at the 23rd ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW).