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Updates from Human Centered Design & Engineering faculty, PhD students, and research scientists.

Winter 2025

January 31, 2025

Danli Luo, Junchao Yang, and Nadya Peek had an article, “3D-Printed Mycelium Biocomposites: Method for 3D Printing and Growing Fungi-Based Composites,” published in 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing.

Murtaza Ali published “AI Ethics for the Everyday User — Why Should You Care?” in Towards Data Science.

Negin Alimohammadi is quoted in the UW Daily article, “Five years of COVID-19: How the pandemic altered the workforce.”


January 24, 2025

Meena Devii Muralikumar and David W. McDonald had an article, “An Emerging Design Space of How Tools Support Collaborations in AI Design and Development,” published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.

Aayushi Dangol, along with collaborators Robert Wolfe, Alexis Hiniker, and Bill Howe (UW Information School), were featured in the UW News article, “Study finds strong negative associations with teenagers in AI models.”


January 17, 2025

Kate Starbird has been awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from President Biden. The PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers early in their careers.

Meena Muralikumar and David McDonald had an article, “An Emerging Design Space of How Tools Support Collaborations in AI Design and Development,” published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.

Elin A. Björling and Ryan McLean, with co-authors Kung Jin Lee (Ewha Womans University), Caitlin Martin (ckMartin Consulting), Juan Rubio (Seattle Public Library), and Jin Ha Lee (UW Information School), had an article, “Design cookbook card deck in facilitating effective co-design in library contexts,” published in the Journal of Librarianship and Information Science.

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The SECURE Center is referenced in the Nature article, “How to sustain scientific collaboration amid worsening US–China relations.”
 


January 10, 2025

Gabrielle Benabdallah, with co-authors Audrey Desjardins and Maya A. Kaneko (UW School of Art + Art History + Design) had an article, “Un/Making Data Imaginaries: The Data Epics,” published in the ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
 
Cryston Sahae, Shuyue Gu, Lige Yang, Elin A. Björling, and Nichelle Song had an article, "An Exploration of a Social Robot as a Digital Shield for Law Enforcement Interviews: Designing a Prototype,” published in Interaction Design & Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A).
 
Tricia Aung and Sean Munson, with co-authors Aaron R. Lyon and Kathryn E. Bruzios (UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences), had an article, “Human-Centered Design to Enhance Implementation and Impact in Health” in the Annual Review of Public Health.
 
Charlotte Lee with co-authors Melanie Duckert (IT University of Copenhagen) and Pernille Bjørn (University of Copenhagen) had an article, “The Ripple Effect of Information Infrastructures,” published in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW).
 
Will Sutherland, Andrew Neang, and Charlotte Lee had an article, “Making Software Work Sustainable for the Academic Research Group: A Comparative Case Study” published in the Proceedings of the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
 
Mark Haselkorn is quoted in the NPR article “Y2K seems like a joke now, but in 1999 people were really freaking out.”
 
Kate Starbird is quoted in the NPR article “Meta says it will end fact checking as Silicon Valley prepares for Trump.”
 
Kate Starbird is quoted in the Washington Post piece “Opinion: When online rumors and institutional distrust collide, you get drones.”


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