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2025 HCDE Research Updates

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

December 12, 2025

Gabrielle Benabdallah was awarded a Metascience & AI Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to explore how AI-augmented reading tools shape scientific practice.

Megan Moldestad, with co-authors Ryan Sterling, Seppo Rinne, Christian Helfrich, George Sayre, Sarah Keithly, Christine Sulc, Jessica Young, Emmi Obara, Sarah Shirley, Ekaterina Cole, Edwin Wong, had a paper, Effect of Electronic Health Record Modernization on Burnout Among VA Frontline Clinicians: A Quasi-Experimental Study, published in Health Services Research.

Daniela Rosner had a paper, Already here, published in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.

Kyra Arnett and David Ribes participated in the workshop for The Public's Science Initiative held December 4-6, 2025 at the Institute for Advanced Study and led by Alondra Nelson and Jenny Reardon. Their paper will be included in the special issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

November 21, 2025

Lubna Razaq received the prestigious UW Graduate School Presidential Dissertation Fellowship in Social Sciences.

Brett Halperin co-organized The First Annual Conference on Spirituality, Religion, and Interactive Technology Design (SPIRITED '25) and presented "Soulless Cinema: On the Hollywood Union Strikes Against AI."

Julie Kientz, with co-authors Alic Shook, Ruby Lucas, Calvin Liang, Diana Tordoff, Jenny Skytta, Molly Altman, and Kym Ahrens, had a paper, Navigating Challenges with IRB Review for Community-Engaged Research with Transgender Youth in the United States, published in Ethics & Human Research.

Aayushi Dangol and Katie Davis had their article, AI could worsen inequalities in schools – teachers are key to whether it will, originally published by The Conversation, reprinted by The Seattle PI, Texas’ Houston Chronicle and The Herald Zeitung, Pennsylvania’s The Patriot-News, Connecticut’s The Darien Times, and Vermont’s Caledonian Record.

Katya Cherukumilli was highlighted in UW Today which featured the UW EDGE Center’s blog post, Removing lead from school drinking water.

November 7, 2025

Jennifer Turns, with collaborators, Sam Bernecker and Patrick Raue received a UW Population Health Initiative Tier 1 pilot grant of $25,000 for Designing Psydkick, an EBPI implementation tool, to deliver problem-solving therapy to depressed and/or anxious rural-dwelling adults.

Cecilia Aragon gave an invited talk, Human-Centered AI, at SUNY Dutchess Community College.

HCDE was well-represented at the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW '25):

HCDE was also well-represented at the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2025):

Cecilia Aragon, with co-authors Sun Yoon, Sarah Evans, Bernease Herman, Yang Liyu, and Lacy Molina had an abstract, Transforming Perspectives on Data Ethics through Collaborative Game Design, published in the Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology.

Yihan Yu and David W. McDonald contributed a paper, Considering Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in AI-Assisted Semantic Image Tagging and Search, to the Considering Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in AI Applications: A Hybrid Workshop (CALD-AI @ ASIST).

Aayushi Dangol, with co-author Katie Davis, had an article published in The Conversation, AI could worsen inequalities in schools – teachers are key to whether it will.

Shana Hirsch was featured in the UW Daily article, $2.5 million UW-associated research grant terminated due to the federal government shutdown.

Nisha Devasia, Julie Kientz, and Jin Ha Lee were quoted in the GeekWire article, “From stress relief to self-discovery: UW researchers reveal the deeper impact of video games.” Co-authors Georgia Kenderova and Michele Newman were mentioned.

Katya Cherukumilli was featured in the UW Center for Exposures, Diseases, Genomics & Environment (EDGE) blog post, Removing lead from school drinking water.
 

October 24, 2025

Kyra Arnett received the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) award for her research, Metrics in Motion: Understanding the (De)stabilization and Maintenance of Quantified Measures.

Julie Kientz and Franziska Roesner, with Meghna Gupta, received a Google Academic Research Award (GARA) Program grant of $100,000 for their project, Designing Family-Centered Safety Tools for Teen-AI Companion Interactions.

Kevin Feng, with co-authors Tae Soo Kim, Rock Yuren Pang, Faria Huq, Tal August, and Amy X Zhang, contributed a poster, On the Regulatory Potential of User Interfaces for AI Agent Governance, at The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025).

Sean Munson with co-authors Beverly Green, Laurel Hansell, Clarissa Hsu, Tae Jones, Casey Luce, James D Ralston, Bryan Davis, Tiana Wright, and Melissa Anderson, had a paper, Evaluation of an Email Blood Pressure Measurement Outreach Program, published in the American Journal of Hypertension.

Sonia Savelli with co-authors Christopher Wirz, Julie Demuth, Robert Prestley, Rebecca Morss, Susan L. Joslyn, and Chao Qin, had a paper, Southeastern U.S. residents’ perceptions and responses to evolving probabilistic tornado forecasts and warnings, published in Weather and Forecasting.

Aayushi Dangol contributed a blog post, When AI Gets It Wrong and What Children Can Learn From It, to The Joan Ganz Cooney Center blog.

Brett Halperin was quoted in the Pitchbook article, A tech skeptic’s AI video startup wants to change Hollywood.

Julie Vera was mentioned in the Business Insider article, TikTok insiders and creators worry its powerful algorithm could lose its magic after a sale.
 

October 10, 2025

Shana Hirsch, with collaborators Ryan Kelly, Aden Ip, Elizabeth Allan, and Kate Bertko, received $250,000 from the Minderoo Foundation ($100,000 to HCDE). This funding supports the work of UW’s eDNA Collaborative which aims to disseminate, accelerate and reinforce science that brings environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis and techniques out of the lab and into routine practice around the world.

Ruiqi Chen with co-authors Xia Su, Jingwei Ma, Chu Li, and Jon Froehlich, had a paper, FlyMeThrough: Human-AI Collaborative 3D Indoor Mapping with Commodity Drones, published in the Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '25).

Ruiqi Chen with co-authors Zhuohao (Jerry) Zhang, Mingyuan Zhong, and Jacob O. Wobbrock, had a paper, SlideAudit: A Dataset and Taxonomy for Automated Evaluation of Presentation Slides, published in the Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '25).

Nisha Devasia, Georgia Kenderova, and Julie A. Kientz, with co-authors Michele Newman and Jin Ha Lee, had a paper, “I Would Not Be This Version of Myself Today”: Elaborating on the Effects of Eudaimonic Gaming Experiences, published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.

Danli Luo had an extended abstract, Building Living Instruments for Scientific Discovery, published in the Adjunct Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST Adjunct '25).

Donghoon Shin, with co-authors Jaewook Lee, Filippo Aleotti, Diego Mazala, Guillermo Garcia-Hernando, Sara Vicente, Oliver James Johnston, Isabel Kraus-Liang, Jakub Powierza, Jon E. Froehlich, Gabriel Brostow, and Jessica Van Brummelen, had a paper, ImaginateAR: AI-Assisted In-Situ Authoring in Augmented Reality, published in the Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '25).

Donghoon Shin, with co-authors Daniel Lee, Nikhil Sharma, DaEun Choi, Harsh Sharma, Jeonghwan Kim, and Heng Ji, had a poster, ThematicPlane: Bridging Tacit User Intent and Latent Spaces for Image Generation, published in the Adjunct Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST Adjunct '25).

Donghoon Shin and Gary Hsieh, with co-authors Daniel Lee and Gromit Yeuk-Yin Chan, had a paper, PosterMate: Audience-driven Collaborative Persona Agents for Poster Design, published in the Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '25).

Donghoon Shin, with co-authors Seojin Hwang, Yumin Kim, Byeongjeong Kim, and Hwanhee Lee, had a paper, Personality Editing for Language Models through Relevant Knowledge Editing, accepted to the EMNLP 2025 Workshop on Exploring Active and Passive LLM Personalization.

Hyewon Suh and Julie Kientz had a paper, Promoting Family Engagement With Early Childhood Developmental Screening via the Baby Steps Text Messaging and Web Portal System: Longitudinal Randomized Controlled Trial, published in JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting.

Julie A. Vera presented "Weathering Trust: Credibility Formation in YouTube's Weather Information Ecosystem" at the Trust and Safety Research Conference on September 25, 2025, hosted by the Stanford Cyber Policy Center.

Nisha Devasia, Julie Kientz, and Jin Ha Lee were interviewed for the UW News article, Q&A: How video games can lead people to more meaningful lives. Co-authors Georgia Kenderova and Michele Newman were mentioned. The interview was also featured in UW Today.

Joseph Schafer, with co-author Morgan Wack, contributed a blog post, The 2020 US election shows how state election policies can fuel conspiracy theories about voting, to the London School of Economics (LSE) United States Politics and Policy (USAPP) blog.

September 26, 2025

Tricia Aung and Sean Munson received a UW Community-Engaged Computing Initiative (CECI) award in the amount of $1,700 for “Digital diary study to assess a low-barrier, culturally and linguistically responsive mental health program co-designed with the Somali community.”

Brett Halperin and Daniela Rosner received a UW Community-Engaged Computing Initiative (CECI) award in the amount of $40,000 for “The People v. Their Own Creation: Designing a Community-Based Docu-Fiction on AI and Labor.”

Georgia Kenderova and Sean Munson received a UW Community-Engaged Computing Initiative (CECI) award in the amount of $5,000 for “Tabletop role-playing games to support youth mental health (w/ Seattle Public Library).”

Amy Xiao and Emily Tseng received a UW Community-Engaged Computing Initiative (CECI) award in the amount of $5,000 for “Mapping Harms and Community Resilience Against Digital-Safety Risks Leveraging Immigration Enforcement Uncertainty.”

Beth Kolko gave a keynote, "Blending Engineering and Human Centered Design for Innovative Products," at Medtronic's Annual Human Centered Design Conference.

Beth Kolko gave a keynote, "Impact: Feature not a Bug," at EDGES, the Responsible Innovation Lab (RIL) annual convening.

David Ribes gave an invited talk, "AI and The “Real World," at the Open Lecture in Media Technology (Medieteknik Live) at Södertörn University in Stockholm, Sweden.

David Ribes, with co-author Francis Lee, had a paper, Computational universalism, or, Attending to relationalities at scale, published in Social Studies of Science.

Emily Tseng with co-authors Ashley Marie Walker, Renee Shelby, Ari Schlesinger, Mark Diaz, Andy Elliot Ricci, and Angela D. R. Smith, had an extended abstract, Designing Support for Systematic Sociotechnical Risk Literacy, published in The Adjunct Proceedings of the Sixth Decennial Aarhus Conference: Computing X Crisis (AAR Adjunct '25).

Cindy Atman and Jennifer Turns, with collaborators Robin Adams, Reid Bailey, Nigel Cross, Dharma Dailey, Shanna Daly, Andy Dong, Liz Gerber, John Gero, Gabriela Goldschmidt, Colin Gray, Mark Guzdial, David Hendry, Susannah Howe, Daria Kotys-Schwartz, Gordon Krauss, Micah Lande, Peter Lloyd, Ade Mabogunje, Janet McDonnell, Laura Murphy, Harold Nelson, Eli Patten, Senay Purzer, Ben Shneiderman, Sheri Sheppard, Kathleen Sienko, David Socha, Erik Stolterman Bergqvist, Vanessa Svihla, Lauren Thomas Quigley, Barbara Tversky, Linda Vanasupa, Michelene Chi, and Alan Schoenfeld, released the “Good Designers do ‘X’” collection.

Kate Starbird was quoted in the Seattle Times piece, Opinion: What can we say about Charlie Kirk? Only what those in power want us to.

September 12, 2025

HCDE was well-represented at 4S 2025, the 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S):

Awards

  • David Ribes and Daniela Rosner, with Janet Vertesi, Carl DiSalvo, Laura Forlano, Steven J. Jackson, Yanni Loukissas, and Hanna Rose Shell, received the STS Infrastructure Award 2025 for their work on the digitalSTS initiative.

Conference Leadership

  • Daniela Rosner served as Conference Co-Chair
  • David Ribes served as Program Committee Co-Chair
  • Gabrielle Benabdallah served as a Zine Festival Co-Chair

Panel Organizers

  • Gabrielle Benabdallah was:
    • a Panel Co-organizer for {Techno} magic and crafting digital artifacts 1
    • a Panel Organizer for {Techno} magic and crafting digital artifacts 2
    • a Panel Organizer for {Techno} magic and crafting digital artifacts 3
  • Anaid Gakhokidze was a Panel Organizer for Back to Black Marxism: Convening racial capitalism theories and STS
  • Sucheta Ghoshal was a Panel Co-organizer and Discussant for Back to Black Marxism: Convening racial capitalism theories and STS
  • David Ribes was a Panel Co-organizer for:
    • The Rise of Research Security
    • Knowledge of HIV/AIDS in STS: Archives, Expertise, and Participation
  • Daniela Rosner was:
    • a Panel Organizer for Threaded Keynote: Art Scenes
    • a Panel Organizer for Threaded Keynote: Bordering
    • a Panel Organizer for Threaded Keynote: Political Water
    • a Panel Organizer for New Critical Computing Conference: Co-Design Gathering
    • a Panel Co-Organizer for Craft and STS Meet Up
  • Joseph Schafer was a Panel Organizer for Memes and Humor as Digital Activism: Subversive Narratives in the Social Media Age
  • Will Sutherland was a Panel Organizer for:
    • Software as Instrument 1
    • Software as Instrument 2

Papers

  • McKane Andrus delivered a paper: From Data Activism to Activism in a Time of Data-Centrism: Engaging with Data and Epistemological Refusal
  • Kyra Arnett and David Ribes delivered a paper: Security through Openness: Tracing the Development of “Fundamental Research”
  • Adiza Awwal delivered a paper: "Trad Wife" Audiences on YouTube: A Mixed-Methods Content Analysis of Feminine Political and Lifestyle Influencers
  • Gabrielle Benabdallah with co-authors Afroditi Psarra and Sadaf Sadri delivered a paper: {Techno} magic and crafting digital artifacts
  • Sayan Bhattacharjee delivered a paper: Skin in the game: Tracing critique in the emergence of a novel skin tone scale for AI/ML
  • Zarine Kharazian delivered a paper: Governance Clashes Over Generative AI in Online Knowledge Commons
  • Beth Kolko delivered a paper: Possibly true stories from semi-hidden worlds: Autoethnographic accounts of building a startup and a VC fund
  • Caitlin Lustig delivered a paper: From Industrial & Organizational Psychology to AI technology
  • Caitlin Lustig with co-author Hunter Akridge delivered a paper: Future(s) of Care Work: How Digital Care Platforms Reproduce and Contest the Cultural Politics of Care
  • Nina Lutz delivered a paper: "Called It!": Prediction and Precarity in the 2024 US Election Lead Up
  • Nina Lutz, Joseph Schafer, Julie Vera, and Sourojit Ghosh delivered a paper: Spider Jesus: Folk Theories and Meaning Making Around AI Slop
  • David Ribes with co-authors Pooja Mohanty and Eric Monteiro delivered a paper: Sensing the winds: ML as concatenated instrumentation
  • Daniela Rosner delivered a paper: Fibers of Alignment
  • Daniela Rosner with co-authors Nava Haghighi, Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Jingyi Li, and Alex Taylor delivered a paper: Hope, Ontological Breakdowns, and a World of Many Worlds
  • Joseph Schafer delivered a paper: Ignore All Previous Instructions: Memetic Refusal of Engagement with LLM-Enabled Accounts Via Humor
  • Will Sutherland delivered a paper: From substrate to instrument: software practice and rigor in an astrophysics collaboration
  • Neilly Tan and Claire Weizenegger delivered a paper: Subjectivities of/within Security and Surveillance
  • Joice Tang delivered a paper: Navigating the Response to Corporatization & AI in Higher Education as Unionized Workers
     

September 5, 2025

Beth Kolko, with Responsible Innovation Labs, provided "office hours" to startups at Seldon Lab, a startup accelerator in San Francisco focused on AGI security.

Beth Kolko delivered a paper, Possibly true stories from semi-hidden worlds: Autoethnographic accounts of building a startup and a VC fund, at 4S 2025, the 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).

Sean Munson, with co-authors Shaan Chopra, Katherine Juarez, and James Fogarty, had a paper, Engagements with Generative AI and Personal Health Informatics: Opportunities for Planning, Tracking, Reflecting, and Acting around Personal Health Data, published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT).

Zhuoyi Zhang, with co-authors Di Liu, Jingwen Bai, Yilin Zhang, Zhenhao Zhang, Jian Zhao, and Pengcheng An, had a paper, TherAIssist: Assisting Art Therapy Homework and Client-Practitioner Collaboration through Human-AI Interaction, published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT).
 

August 29, 2025

Brock Craft with co-authors, Alexander Pagano, Saadeddine Shehab, Cristian Eduardo Vargas-Ordonez, Hadi Ali, Micah Lande, Georges Y. Ayoub, Sebastian Dziallas, and Taylor Parks, had a paper, Advancing Human-Centered Engineering (HCE): A Framework for Defining and Building the Emerging Discipline, presented at the 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition in Montreal, Quebec.

Brock Craft with co-authors, Taylor Parks, Alexander Pagano, and Saadeddine Shehab, had a paper, WIP: Using a human-centered engineering design mapping tool to inform ABET accreditation for an existing engineering design program, presented at the 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition in Montreal, Quebec.

Sourojit Ghosh and Sarah Marie Coppola had a paper, Empowering Engineering Graduates to Contribute towards Designing Safer Generative AI Tools through an Ethics Course, presented at the 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition in Montreal, Quebec.

Sourojit Ghosh, Sarah Marie Coppola, and Arpita B. had a paper, Integrating Theory and Practice into a Design Foundations Course, presented at the 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition in Montreal, Quebec.

Jennifer Turns had a paper, Beyond Implementation: Exploring Research through Design to Elevate Everyday Educational Innovation in Engineering Education, presented at the 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition in Montreal, Quebec.

Jennifer Turns and Cynthia Atman, with co-authors Reid Bailey, Krina Patel, Susannah Howe, Micah Lande, and Eli Patten, had a paper, Using design timelines for tracking and reflection on design processes: Emerging insights, presented at the 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition in Montreal, Quebec.

Jennifer Turns and Yuliana Flores had a paper, Generative AI as a Thinking Partner in Doctoral Education: An Autoethnographic Exploration, presented at the 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition in Montreal, Quebec.
 

August 22, 2025

Nadya Peek received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) Phase II grant of $1,491,300 for RepLab: Open Source Hardware for Laboratory Automation.

Nadya Peek, with co-authors Jennifer Jacobs, Emilie Yu, Mackenzie Leake, Hannah Twigg-Smith, and Emily Whiting, had a paper, Computational Craft: Computational Fabrication Methods for Enabling Craft Production in Textiles and Ceramics, published in the Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference Courses (SIGGRAPH Courses '25).

Pitch Sinlapanuntakul and Mark Zachry had a paper, Impacts of AI on Human Designers: A Systematic Literature Review, published in IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication.

August 15, 2025

Leslie Coney has been awarded a fellowship by the Georgetown-Howard Center for Medical Humanities and Health Justice (MHHJ). The theme for this inaugural year of the fellowship is “Networks.”

Brett Halperin had a book review, Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation by Marina Hassapopoulou (review), published in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.

Kate Starbird was:

August 1, 2025

Charlotte Lee and Adam Hyland had an article, Floating Points, published in Proceedings of the sixth decennial Aarhus conference: Computing X Crisis (AAR '25).

Charlotte Lee, Will Sutherland, Negin Alimohammadi, Ridley Jones LeDoux, and Andrew Neang had an article, The Agony and Ecstasy of Extended Research on Computational Systems, published in Proceedings of the sixth decennial Aarhus conference: Computing X Crisis (AAR '25).

Kevin Feng and David McDonald with co-author Amy Zhang, had a paper, Levels of Autonomy for AI Agents, published by the Knight First Amendment Institute.

Cecilia Aragon was quoted in The Washington Post article, Fan fiction is everywhere, if you know how to look.

July 25, 2025

Julie Kientz has been elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences for “award-winning leadership in HCI computing, whose research has advanced health and education technology, influenced policy, and shaped the HCI field of through impactful scholarship, interdisciplinary collaboration and inclusive, real-world technology design.” Dr. Kientz is one of twelve faculty members at the University of Washington elected to the WSAS in 2025.

Joseph Schafer and Kate Starbird, with co-authors Morgan Wack, Ian Kennedy, Anna Beers, and Emma Spiro, had an article, Legislating Uncertainty: Election Policies and the Amplification of Misinformation, published in Policy Studies Journal.

Aayushi Dangol is quoted in the Seattle Times article: UW game shows kids they are smarter than AI. Julie Kientz is mentioned, and Jason Yip is quoted.

July 18, 2025

Jeffrey Basoah, with co-authors Daniel Chechelnitsky, Tao Long, Katharina Reinecke, Chrysoula Zerva, Kaitlyn Zhou, Mark Díaz, and Maarten Sap, had an article, Not Like Us, Hunty: Measuring Perceptions and Behavioral Effects of Minoritized Anthropomorphic Cues in LLMs, published in the Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparent (FAccT '25) .

Gabrielle Benabdallah, with co-authors Eldy S. Lazaro Vasquez, Laura Devendorf, and Mirela Alistar, had an article, "Chaotic, Exciting, Impactful": Stories of Material-led Designers in Interdisciplinary Collaboration, published in the Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '25).

Nisha Devasia, with co-authors Chris Coward and Jin Ha Lee, had an article, Escape Rooms for Misinformation Education: A Case Study of Co-Design with Two Communities, published in the Conference Proceedings of DiGRA 2025: Games at the Crossroads.

Nisha Devasia and Julie Kientz, with co-author Jamie Espinosa-Briones, had an article, Preliminary Results from a Systematic Review of Narrative Game-based Interventions for Mental Health, published in the Abstract Proceedings of DiGRA 2025: Games at the Crossroads.

Nisha Devasia, Adrian Rodriguez, Logan Tuttle, and Julie Kientz had an article, Partnership through Play: Investigating How Long-Distance Couples Use Digital Games to Facilitate Intimacy, published in the Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '25).

Brett Halperin, with co-authors Willem van der Maden, Vera van der Burg, Petra Jääskeläinen, Peter Kun, Derek Lomas, Timothy Merritt, Joseph Lindley, Pavel Okopnyi, Frode Guribye, Maria Luce Lupetti, and Jichen Zhu, had an article, From Dead-ends to Dialogue: Third Workshop on Design Research & GenAI, published in the Companion Publication of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '25 Companion).

Brett Halperin, with co-authors Alexandra Kitson, C. Estelle Smith, Franzisca Maas, Michael J Hoefer, Sara Wolf, Elizabeth Buie, had an article, Diving Into the Ocean of Religious and Spiritual Design Research, published in the Companion Publication of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '25 Companion).

David Ribes, with co-author Francis Lee, had an article, Computational universalism, or, Attending to relationalities at scale, published in Social Studies of Science.

Donghoon Shin and Gary Hsieh, with co-author Young-Ho Kim, had an article, PlanFitting: Personalized Exercise Planning with Large Language Model-driven Conversational Agent, published in the Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI '25).

Donghoon Shin and Gary Hsieh, with co-authors Tze-Yu Chen and Lucy Lu Wang, had an article, What About My Design Context?: Exploring the Use of Generative AI to Support Customization of Translational Research Artifacts, published in the Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’25).

Pitch Sinlapanuntakul and Mark Zachry had an article, Perception in Pixels: Effects of Avatar Representation in Video-Mediated Collaborative Interactions, published in the Proceedings of the 4th Annual Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK '25).

Claire Florence Weizenegger, with co-authors James Pierce, Robyn Anderson, Hope Terpilowski, Wyatt Olson, Lian Bensadon, Faith Ong, and Cobi Stancik, had an article, Arca: Documenting Novel Design Patterns for Improving Interpersonal Privacy with Smart Cameras, published in the Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '25).

Aayushi Dangol:

Samuel So was interviewed for the KUOW story, Layoffs, lost faith, and 'cruel optimism' in tech.

June 27, 2025

Murtaza Ali and co-author Benjamin Xie had a column, Automated Benchmarking Infrastructure: Moving Toward Robust Investigations of Gen AI in Computing Education, published in ACM Inroads.

Aayushi Dangol had an extended abstract, Beyond Users: Supporting Children in Interpreting, Resisting, and Collaborating with AI, published in the Proceedings of the 24th Interaction Design and Children (IDC '25).

Aayushi Dangol and Julie Kientz, with co-authors Robert Wolfe, Daeun Yoo, Arya Thiruvillakkat, and Ben Chickadel, had an extended abstract, “If anybody finds out you are in BIG TROUBLE”: Understanding Children’s Hopes, Fears, and Evaluations of Generative AI, published in the Proceedings of the 24th Interaction Design and Children (IDC '25).

Aayushi Dangol, Trushaa Ramanan, and Julie Kientz, with co-authors Runhua Zhao, Robert Wolfe, and Jason Yip, had an article, “AI just keeps guessing”: Using ARC Puzzles to Help Children Identify Reasoning Errors in Generative AI, published in the Proceedings of the 24th Interaction Design and Children (IDC '25).

Aayushi Dangol, Trushaa Ramanan, and Julie Kientz, with co-authors Robert Wolfe, Runhua Zhao, JaeWon Kim, and Katie Davis, had an article, Children's Mental Models of AI Reasoning: Implications for AI Literacy Education, published in the Proceedings of the 24th Interaction Design and Children (IDC '25).

Meghna Gupta, Arpita B, and Julie Kientz had an article, "Being a nanny isn't just caregiving": An Analysis of How Nannies Seek Support in Online Communities like /r/Nanny, published in the Proceedings of the 4th Annual Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK '25).

Brett Halperin had an article, Crafting computational counter-media: Spatial story design of housing (in)justice and archival challenges, published in the Radical Housing Journal.

Kyler Menge and Gary Hsieh, with co-authors Barclay T. Stewart, T. Varugis Kurien, Caitlin Orton, Rebecca Estrada, Gretchen Carrougher, Callie Thompson, and Tam N. Pham, had an article, Optimizing the user-experience (UX) and −interface (UI) of a mHealth application to aid recovery from burn injury (BurnCORE) through a user-centered design approach, published in Burns Open.

Caroline Pitt, with co-authors Jessica Andrews, Melissa Carlson, Anessa Roth, and Jason Yip, had an extended abstract, Let's test it!: Designing peer-to-peer engineering games with and for children, published in the Proceedings of the 24th Interaction Design and Children (IDC '25).

Kate Starbird was quoted in the NBC News article, How Minnesota shooting conspiracy theories hijacked social media.

June 13, 2025

Sourojit Ghosh with co-authors Yanfu Liu, Cheng Guo had a paper, “Post-Editing Vs Neural Machine Translation: A Comparative Study of English ↔ Mandarin Translations in Daily Conversations,” published in The International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction.

Sean Munson with co-authors Alex Zhu, Jessica Sher, Richard Li, Otari Ioseliani, Leah Cantor, Elena Brewer, Karla Landis, David Bridges, Hanna Hunter, Cindy Lin, Sarah Psutka had a paper, “What motivates bladder cancer patients to be active? A qualitative study assessing attitudes towards physical activity and digital health technologies,” published in Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations.

Kate Starbird was a featured guest on KUOW’s Soundside program, “Clock is ticking for scientists to make the case against funding cuts.”

Samuel So was featured in the UW Daily article, "What UW students should know before entering the tech industry.”

May 23, 2025

Shana Hirsch, with collaborators at the UW eDNA Collaborative and the Vashon Nature Center, received a grant award in the amount of $78,000 from the Green/Duwamish & Central Puget Sound Watershed (WRIA 9) for “Developing an eDNA based rapid assessment for juvenile chinook presence in small non-natal streams.” Of the total award, $53,506 will come to UW.

Murtaza Ali published “I Teach Data Viz with a Bag of Rocks” in towards data science.

Mark Haselkorn and Lynette Arias were quoted in the UW Daily article featuring the SECURE Center, “UW leads ongoing national research security effort backed by $50 million NSF grant.”
 

May 16, 2025

Emily Tseng, with co-authors Thomas Ristenpart and Nicola Dell, had an article, “Mitigating Trauma in Qualitative Research Infrastructure: Roles for Machine Assistance and Trauma-Informed Design” published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CSCW.

Brett Halperin and collaborator Adam Hersko-RonaTas (Antennarosa Pictures) presented their work in progress, "The People v. Their Creation: Designing a Docu-Fiction Film," at the Data & Society workshop "What is Work Worth? Exploring What Generative AI Means for Workers’ Lives and Labor."

Samuel So was interviewed in the UW News article, “Q&A: UW researcher discusses the “cruel optimism” of tech industry layoffs.” Collaborators Sucheta Ghoshal, Sean Munson and Vannary Sou were mentioned. GeekWire published a related article, “‘Cruel optimism’: Mass layoffs take the shine off careers in the tech sector, UW research finds.” This work was also featured in UW Today.

Kate Starbird was featured in the Science article, “Trump’s ‘fear factor’: Scientists go silent as funding cuts escalate.”

Kate Starbird was interviewed by the Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) program, Think Out Loud: “What NSF funding cuts could mean for misinformation research at UW and across the country.”

May 9, 2025

McKane Andrus, Sucheta Ghoshal, and Sayamindu Dasgupta had an article, “From Data Activism to Activism in a Time of Data-Centrism: Affirming Epistemological Heterogeneity in Social Movements,” published in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.

Soobin Cho with co-authors JaeWon Kim, Robert Wolfe, Jishnu Hari Nair, and Alexis Hiniker had an article, “Privacy as Social Norm: Systematically Reducing Dysfunctional Privacy Concerns on Social Media,” published in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.

Jay Cunningham with co-authors Sheena Erete, Eric Corbett, Natasha Smith-Walker, Erin Gatz, Tina Park, Tam Perry, Lauren Wilcox, Remi Denton had an article, “Towards Equitable Community-Industry Collaborations: Understanding the Experiences of Nonprofits’ Collaborations with Tech Companies,” published in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.

Gary Hsieh with co-authors Anant Mittal, Tae Jones, Ravi Karkar, Jina Suh, Spencer Williams, Yihao Zheng, Lydia Andris, Nicole Bates, Amy Bauer, Ty Lostuter, Jesse Fann and James Fogarty, had an article, “SCOPE: Examining Technology-Enhanced Collaborative Care Management of Depression in the Cancer Setting,” published in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.

Joseph Schafer, Annie Denton, Chloe Seelhoff, Jordyn Vo, Lance Garcia, Isha Madan, Alisha Mudbhary, Ruijingya Tang, and Kate Starbird had an article, “'I Blow Up': Understanding TikTok Users' Reactions to Sudden Social Media Attention,” published in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.

Kate Starbird with co-authors Rachel Moran, Sukrit Venkatagiri, and Emma Spiro had an article, “Privacy versus Transparency: Navigating Public Records Requests and Adversarial Dynamics in a Distributed Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration,” published in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.

Kate Starbird contributed a book chapter, “Unraveling the Big Lie: Participatory Disinformation and the 2020 Election,” to Connective Action and the Rise of the Far-Right: Platforms, Politics, and the Crisis of Democracy.

Kate Starbird was mentioned in the Seattle Times opinion piece “Learn from Seattle's legacy of organized protest to make a difference.”

May 2, 2025

Tricia Aung, with collaborators Lesley Steinman, Najma Mohamed, Jacob Bentley, Roberto Orellana, KeliAnne Hara-Hubbard, and Farhiya Osman, received a UW Population Health Initiative Tier 2 Grant of $65,000 for “Pilot Study to Integrate Low-Barrier, Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Mental Health Care into Community-Based Social Services.”

Hyeonjeong Byeon was selected for the summer 2025 cohort of the UW Population Health Initiative’s Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship Program for the project “Virtual Study Assistant for Potential Research Participants.”

HCDE authors contributed to 36 research articles at the 2025 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25)! Included in the Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems are:

HCDE authors also contributed works in progress & extended abstracts to be included in CHI EA '25: Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing System:

Kate Starbird was quoted in the Science article “Trump’s team, often accused of spreading misinformation, slashes misinformation research.”

Cecilia Aragon was quoted in the KUOW article “Seattle crosswalk signals with deepfake Bezos audio may have been hacked with just a cellphone” and the related NPR All Things Considered segment “Pedestrians hear AI-generated messages from billionaires at hacked crosswalks.”

 

April 18, 2025

Katya Cherukumilli received an award from the UW Student Technology Fee Fund for $85K for proposal "Increasing Access to Sustainable and Safe Drinking Water Sources on Campus."

Emily Tseng, with co-authors Meg Young, Marianne Aubin Le Quéré, Aimee Rinehart, and Harini Suresh, had a paper, “Ownership, Not Just Happy Talk”: Co-Designing a Participatory Large Language Model for Journalism, accepted to the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT 2025). This work describes an effort to co-design participatory AI with journalists, and a collaboration with colleagues at multiple institutions.

Kate Starbird was quoted in the NPR article, “How a false X post about pausing tariffs led to multitrillion-dollar market swings.”

April 11, 2025

Cecilia Aragon will be a panelist on the “Lab to Industry: Universities and Research Labs Leading the AI Revolution” panel at the Transatlantic AI eXchange Remarkable Women in AI (RWIAI) 2025 event on April 24, 2025.

Brett Halperin was a panelist on the “Community Sustainability and Engagement” panel at the “Examining Critical Sociotechnical Challenges in Information Science” Symposium at Rutgers University on April 4, 2025.

Julie Kientz with co-authors, Carol Miller, Hedda Meadan, Abbie Olszewski and Jinjun Xiong had an article, “Supporting Speech-Language Pathologists in Schools With Interdisciplinary Team Science: A Viewpoint From the National Artificial Intelligence Institute for Exceptional Education,” published in Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools.

Kate Starbird was quoted in the NPR article, “How a false X post about pausing tariffs led to multitrillion-dollar market swings.”

Nupur Gorkar (HCDE Undergraduate) has been selected for the Summer 2025 cohort of the UW Population Health Initiative’s Applied Research Fellows. The Fellows program seeks to offer students training in data analysis, critical thinking and team science skills that will help them solve complex population health challenges on their way to becoming future leaders in population health.

April 4, 2025

David Ribes, with collaborators Stephen Molldrem, Marika Cifor, and Andrew Spieldenner, hosted the Knowledge of AIDS (KOA) Year 2 Workshop at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, Texas on March 26-28, 2025. The network of 30+ leading critical scholars of HIV/AIDS hosts the annual workshop and fosters scholarly community to build intellectual infrastructure in support of social and critical scholarship about HIV/AIDS in STS and adjacent fields. Steven Epstein was keynote speaker for the two-day event.

Kevin Feng will be a panelist at the Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Freedoms Symposium hosted by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University on April 10, 2025.

Gary Hsieh, with co-authors Serena Jinchen Xie, Carolin Spice, Patrick Wedgeworth, Raina Langevin, Kevin Lybarger, Angad Preet Singh, Brian Wood, Jared Klein, Herbert Duber, and Andrea Hartzler, had an article, “Patient and clinician acceptability of automated extraction of social drivers of health from clinical notes in primary care” published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Cecilia Aragon, with co-authors Jared Hand, Alex Kim, Pierre Antilogus, Stephen Bailey, Charles Baltay, Kyle Boone, Clément Buton, Yannick Copin, Samantha Dixon, Dominique Fouchez, Emmanuel Gangler, Ravi Gupta, Brian Hayden, Mitchell Karmen, Marek Kowalski, Daniel Küsters, Pierre-François Léget, Jakob Nordin, Reynald Pain, Saul Perlmutter, Kara Ponder, David Rabinowitz, Mickael Rigault, David Rubin, Clare Saunders, Nao Suzuki, Stefan Taubenberger, R. C. Thomas, and Maria Vincenzi, had an article, “An Agnostic Approach to Building Empirical Type Ia Supernova Light Curves: Evidence for Intrinsic Chromatic Flux Variation Using Nearby Supernova Factory Data” published in The Astrophysical Journal.

Cecilia Aragon was featured on KCBS-LA’s Mission Unstoppable television show in “Using math to fly.”

Kate Starbird was quoted in the New York Times article, “Trump leads a ‘machinery’ of misinformation in second term.”

March 14, 2025

Katya Cherukumilli, Trisha Nene, and Jessamine Li have been awarded a UW Student Technology Fee (STF) grant of $173,425 for their project, “UW CHEMystery Lab,” intended to increase access to analytical chemistry tools on campus.

Zarine Kharazian and Kate Starbird, with co-authors Naomi Miyashita and Laura De Backer, had an article, “How Strategic Information Operations Affect Peacekeeping: Two Case Studies from the Central African Republic,” published in International Peacekeeping.

Julie Kientz, with co-authors Shumenghui Zhai, Tonya Palermo, Susan Shenoi, George Demiris, Waylon Howard, Weichao Yuwen, and Teresa Ward, had an article, “A shared-management web-based intervention for sleep deficiency in school-age children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis and their parents: feasibility and acceptability study,” published the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine.

Nichole Sams, with co-authors Brittany Blanchard, Elizabeth Austin, Erin Chase, Julien Rouvere, Vinita Sharma, Morgan Johnson, Florence Williams, Madeline Frost, Sarah Leyde, Judith Tsui, Susan Collins, and John Fortney, had an article, “Primary Care Patient and Clinician Perspectives on Safer Use Strategies for Opioids and/or Stimulants: A Mixed‑Method Study,” published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Gabrielle Benabdallah will present the “Workshop in Training Large Language Models (LLMs) for Academic and Creative Applications” at the UW Simpson Center for the Humanities on April 14, 2025. This workshop will explore the intersection of AI and creativity, focusing on techniques for customizing large language models (LLMs) for academic and creative applications.

March 7, 2005

Cecilia Aragon gave an invited guest lecture at the University of New Mexico (UNM) on AI, STEM, Entrepreneurship and Diversity.

Brock Craft, with co-authors Alexander Pagano, Saadeddine Shehab, Cristian Eduardo Vargas-Ordóñez, Hadi Ali, Michah Lande, Georges Ayoub, Stefan Dziallas and Taylor Tucker Parks, had an article, “Advancing Human-Centered Engineering (HCE): A Framework for Defining and Building the Emerging Discipline,” accepted to the 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.

Brock Craft, with co-authors Taylor Tucker Parks, Alexander Pagano, and Saadeddine Shehab, had an article, “Using a human-centered engineering design mapping tool to inform ABET accreditation for an existing engineering design program,” accepted to the 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.

Shana Hirsch, with co-authors Mohammad Nasir Tighsazzadeh, Andréanne Doyon and Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor, had an article, “The evolution of equity in offshore renewable energy: A systematic literature review,” published in Ocean & Coastal Management.

Os Keyes with co-author Katherine Cross contributed a book chapter, “Data Violence,” to The Sage Handbook of Data and Society.

Sean Munson, with co-authors Amira Skeggs, Ashish Mehta, Valerie Yap, Seray Ibrahim, Aubrey Rhodes, James Gross, Predrag Klasnja, Amy Orben, and Petr Slovák, had an article, “Micro-narratives: A Scalable Method for Eliciting Stories of People’s Lived Experience” accepted to the 2025 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).

Will Sutherland had an article, “Big Sky, Big Data, Big Changes: On the Shifting Moral Economy of Astronomy in an Era of Abundance,” published in American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts.

Kate Starbird published an opinion piece in The Seattle Times, “To understand right-wing media's power, study improv and theater of influencers.” This piece was adapted from her University Faculty Lecture on Feb. 24, 2025.

Kate Starbird was quoted in The Washington Post opinion article, “Can Elon Musk find any fraud before Trump’s base notices the con?”

February 28, 2025

Kate Starbird was inducted to the Association of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI) Academy Class of 2025.

Nadya Peek received the Association of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI) Special Recognition Award “for democratizing automation through open-source hardware, building global maker communities, and bridging academic research with grassroots fabrication practices.”

Cecilia Aragon received the Association of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI) Special Recognition Award “for establishing human-centered data science as a new field bridging HCI and data science, demonstrating its impact through applications from astrophysics to energy systems.”

Cecilia Aragon gave a keynote titled, “What is Human-Centered AI and Why Does It Matter?” at the 2025 Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE TS).

Murtaza Ali published “The Dangers of Deceptive Data–Confusing Charts and Misleading Headlines” in towards data science.

Brett Halperin was interviewed by KUOW and featured on the Southside Podcast: “And the winner is... Artificial Intelligence.”

Brett Halperin was interviewed by UW News for its article: “Q&A: How AI is changing the film industry.”

Brett Halperin was interviewed by The Daily for its article: “AI is destroying cinema as we know it — or is it?”

Kate Starbird was featured in The Daily in its article: “Professor Kate Starbird presents the 48th annual University Faculty Lecture: The creation of online rumors, misinformation, and disinformation.”

February 21, 2025

Aayushi Dangol, with co-authors Robert Wolfe, Alexis Hiniker, and Bill Howe, had two articles published in AIES '24: Proceedings of the 2024 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society:

Sourojit Ghosh and Nina Lutz, with co-author Aylin Caliskan, had an article, "”I Don't See Myself Represented Here at All": User Experiences of Stable Diffusion Outputs Containing Representational Harms across Gender Identities and Nationalities,” published in AIES '24: Proceedings of the 2024 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society.

Sourojit Ghosh had an article, “Interpretations, Representations, and Stereotypes of Caste within Text-to-Image Generators,” published in AIES '24: Proceedings of the 2024 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society.

Sourojit Ghosh, with co-authors Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Sanjana Gautam, Shomir Wilson, and Aylin Caliskan, had an article, “Do Generative AI Models Output Harm While Representing Non-Western Cultures: Evidence from a Community-Centered Approach,” published in AIES '24: Proceedings of the 2024 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society.

Ruoxi Shang and Gary Hsieh, with co-author Chirag Shah, had an article, “Trusting Your AI Agent Emotionally and Cognitively: Development and Validation of a Semantic Differential Scale for AI Trust,” published in AIES '24: Proceedings of the 2024 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society.

Danli Luo was featured in the UW News article, “Coffee grounds and Reishi mushroom spores can be 3D printed into a compostable alternative to plastics.” Junchao Yang and Nadya Peek were mentioned. The story was also re-printed by the Tech and Science Post.

Kate Starbird was quoted in the Washington Post article, “Musk accused Reuters of ‘social deception.’ The deception was his.”

February 14, 2025

Katya Cherukumilli was awarded an EDGE Pilot Project by the UW Interdisciplinary Center for Exposures, Diseases, Genomics, and Environment (EDGE) in the amount of $40,000 for “Collectively Addressing Lead Contamination of Drinking Water in Washington State Schools.”

Joseph Schafer, Brett Halperin, Sourojit Ghosh, and Julie Vera had a paper, “To Screenshot or Not to Screenshot? Tensions in Representing Visual Social Media Platform Posts,” published in AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research.

Shana Hirsch, with co-authors Susanna Theroux, Adam Sepulveda, Cathryn Abbott, Zachary Gold, Alison Watts, Margaret Hunter, Katy Klymus, Joseph Craine, Devin Jones, Rachel Brown, Joshua Steele, Miwa Takahashi, Rachel Noble, and John Darling, had a paper, “What is eDNA method standardisation and why do we need it?” published in Metabarcoding and Metagenomics.

Shana Hirsch was quoted in the Seattle Times article, “Future of offshore wind on West Coast is murky under Trump.”

Katya Cherukumilli was featured in the UW News article, “Q&A: How 12 UW researchers fell in love with their research.”

February 7, 2025


Kate Starbird will give the UW’s 2025 University Faculty Lecture on February 24, 2025. Her talk, A Spotlight on Rumors: Illuminating How Influence and Improvisation Shape Online Conversations, will focus on her work understanding online rumors, misinformation and disinformation.

Sean Munson and Tricia Aung, with co-authors Aaron Lyon, Michael Pullmann, Brittany Mosser, John Fortney, Helen Haile, Alex Dopp, Katie Osterhage, Kathryn Bruzios, Brittany Blanchard, Ryan Allred, Macey Fuller, Patrick Raue, Ian Bennett, Jill Locke, Karen Bearss, Denise Walker, Elizabeth Connors, Eric Bruns, Jenna Van Draanen, Doyanne Darnell, and Patricia Areán, had an article, “Harnessing Human-Centered Design for Evidence-Based Psychosocial Interventions and Implementation Strategies in Community Settings: Protocol for Redesign to Improve Usability, Engagement, and Appropriateness,” published in JMIR Research Protocols.

Shengzhi Wang, Melinda Haughey, and Kate Starbird, with co-authors Alexa Schlein, Valerie Remaker, Ziyun Tie, Rachel Davidson, and James Kendra, had an article, “Bursting Pipes and Boiling Snow: Disaster Impacts and Adaptations in the 2021 Texas Power Crisis from the Lens of Short-Form Social Media Videos,” published in the Journal of Disaster Studies.

Brett Halperin and Daniela Rosner had an article, “'AI is Soulless': Hollywood Film Workers Strike and Emerging Perceptions of Generative Cinema,” accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI).

Os Keyes was quoted in the TechCrunch article, “Why IQ is a poor test for AI.”

Kate Starbird was quoted by:

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.

Kate Starbird is quoted in:

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.”