2019 | Human Centered Design & Engineering

Selected media coverage featuring faculty, researchers, and students from the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering.

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	December 31, 2019 \| GeekWire Year in pictures: Tech giants, startups, politics, soccer and more put focus on Seattle in 2019 Daniela Rosner, associate professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	December 27, 2019 \| KIRO Radio UW professor: ‘No easy solution’ to solving fake news on social media Kate Starbird, associate professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	December 12, 2019 \| USA Today Facebook disinformation in the 2020 presidential election: What you can do to stop its spread Kate Starbird, associate professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	December 4, 2019 \| The Seattle Times Can you tell which face is real? UW and WSU plan to fight digital ‘deepfakes’ Kate Starbird, associate professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	November 21, 2019 \| CNN Business AI software defines people as male or female. That's a problem Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	November 12, 2019 \| Inverse Art therapy is finally being taken seriously as a tool for boosting health Elin Björling, senior research scientist, Human Centered Design & Engineering
	November 12, 2019 \| GeekWire Confronting the global ‘crisis’ of misinformation: Inside the UW’s new Center for an Informed Public Kate Starbird, associate professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	November 11, 2019 \| The Daily Dot PayPal and Venmo’s anti-terrorism regulations are causing headaches for average businesses Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	October 30, 2019 \| Mic Facial recognition misclassifies transgender and non-binary people, study finds Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	October 29, 2019 \| Popular Mechanics How the Internet Works: The 7 Steps It Took To Read This Article Cecilia Aragon, professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	October 29, 2019 \| KUOW How fanfiction is empowering young people Cecilia Aragon, professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	October 28, 2019 \| Logic Magazine The Body Instrumental Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	October 28, 2019 \| NBC News Why did Microsoft fund an Israeli firm that surveils West Bank Palestinians? Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	October 25, 2019 \| The Washington Post Civil rights leaders thought they’d figured out how to deal with Facebook. But now they are ‘livid.’ Kate Starbird, associate professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	October 23, 2019 \| New Scientist Inside the 1TB ImageNet data set used to train the world's AI Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	October 9, 2019 \| New Scientist UK launched passport photo checker it knew would fail with dark skin Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	October 5, 2019 \| The Seattle Times A higher purpose for fan fiction? Yes! It’s helping teach young and marginalized people to write, says UW professor Cecilia Aragon, professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	October 1, 2019 \| The Atlantic What Fan Fiction Teaches That the Classroom Doesn’t Cecilia Aragon, professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	September 21, 2019 \| Buzzfeed It’s Scarily Easy To Track Someone Around A City Via Their Instagram Stories Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	September 4, 2019 \| Vice Our Face Recognition Nightmare Began Decades Ago. Now It’s Expanding Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	August 22, 2019 \| The Wall Street Journal YouTube Channels Are Yanked for Alleged Disinformation Campaigns in Hong Kong Kate Starbird, assistant professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	August 7, 2019 \| King 5 UW study says art therapy can help teens with stress and headaches Elin Björling, senior research scientist, Human Centered Design & Engineering
	August 6, 2019 \| Vice Trump Wants to Make It Basically Impossible to Sue for Algorithmic Discrimination Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	August 5, 2019 \| KIRO Radio UW professor, former Storm player on how lies are spread on social media Kate Starbird, assistant professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	August 2, 2019 \| Seattle PI 'To promote an informed society': UW to launch new center studying fake news this fall Kate Starbird, assistant professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	July 29, 2019 \| Psychology Today Can We Stop the Spread of Misinformation? Kate Starbird, assistant professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	July 24, 2019 \| Nature Disinformation’s spread: bots, trolls and all of us Kate Starbird, assistant professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	July 23, 2019 \| Newsweek Russia Is Using Cold War Strategy to Undermine the Faith of Americans in the 2020 Election—Will It Work? Kate Starbird, assistant professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	July 22, 2019 \| GeekWire University of Washington lands $5 million to study fake news and misinformation Kate Starbird, assistant professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	June 28, 2019 \| Fortune Coming Off Paris Air Show High, Here's What Boeing Must Do to Get the 737 MAX (and Its Business) Back in the Air Cecilia Aragon, professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	June 27, 2019 \| Jezebel Amazon's Facial Analysis Program Is Building A Dystopic Future For Trans And Nonbinary People Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	June 25, 2019 \| Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 John Porter, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	June 19, 2019 \| The Seattle Globalist STEM networks aim to diversify tech fields Tsewone Melaku, Human Centered Design & Engineering alumna
	June 13, 2019 \| Exberliner It's the structures, not the tech: Os Keyes Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	June 3, 2019 \| Global News Russia wants Tinder data — but info could be used to target LGBTQ2 users Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	May 29, 2019 \| Buzzfeed Facial Recognition Technology Is Facing A Huge Backlash In The US. But Some Of The World’s Biggest Tech Companies Are Trying To Sell It In The Gulf. Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	May 15, 2019 \| Crosscut A UW engineer explains how facial recognition tech erases trans people Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	May 6, 2019 \| Seattle Met This Robot Is a Mind Reader Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	May 3, 2019 \| Scientific American Actually, We Should Not All Use They/Them Pronouns Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	April 23, 2019 \| Venture Beat A transgender AI researcher’s nightmare scenarios for facial recognition software Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	April 19, 2019 \| Next Avenue Who Shares Fake News? (We Know It Wasn’t You) Kate Starbird, assistant professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	April 6, 2019 \| Technology Review Hey Google, sorry you lost your ethics council, so we made one for you Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	April 5, 2019 \| Wired The tricky ethics of Google's cloud ambitions Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	April 3, 2019 \| Venture Beat Prominent AI researchers call on Amazon to stop selling Rekognition facial analysis to law enforcement Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	April 2, 2019 \| Info Security Google Has a Board-Level AI Ethical Dilemma Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	March 29, 2019 \| The Guardian 'Bias deep inside the code': the problem with AI 'ethics' in Silicon Valley Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	March 27, 2019 \| The Verge Google creates external advisory board to monitor it for unethical AI use Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	March 27, 2019 \| Business Insider Google set up an external ethics council for AI, but one of its members was called out for her views on trans people and immigration Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	March 19, 2019 \| The Washington Post Government using photos of visa applicants, dead people to test facial recognition software Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	March 18, 2019 \| Slate The Government Is Using the Most Vulnerable People to Test Facial Recognition Software Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	March 14, 2019 \| GeekWire AtariWomen wants you to meet the female engineers behind Centipede and Warlords Daniela Rosner, assistant professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	March 6, 2019 \| Wired Microsoft wants to stop AI's 'race to the bottom' Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	March 5, 2019 \| The Register The infamous AI gaydar study was repeated – and, no, code can't tell if you're straight or not just from your face Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	February 19, 2019 \| Motherboard Facial Recognition Software Regularly Misgenders Trans People Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	February 19, 2019 \| Geekwire How this healthcare outsider solved an industry blind spot, with a healthy dose of perseverance Beth Kolko, professors of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	February 12, 2019 \| CBC Twitter trolls stoked debates about immigrants and pipelines in Canada, data show Kate Starbird, assistant professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	February 12, 2019 \| Fast Company 7 problems with Trump’s “American AI” Initiative Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	February 8, 2019 \| Boston Globe Artificial intelligence’s diversity problem Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	January 8, 2019 \| KUOW Can we build a better social media network? Beth Kolko and Kate Starbird, professors of Human Centered Design & Engineering

	December 31, 2019 \| GeekWire Year in pictures: Tech giants, startups, politics, soccer and more put focus on Seattle in 2019 Daniela Rosner, associate professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	December 27, 2019 \| KIRO Radio UW professor: ‘No easy solution’ to solving fake news on social media Kate Starbird, associate professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	December 12, 2019 \| USA Today Facebook disinformation in the 2020 presidential election: What you can do to stop its spread Kate Starbird, associate professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	December 4, 2019 \| The Seattle Times Can you tell which face is real? UW and WSU plan to fight digital ‘deepfakes’ Kate Starbird, associate professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	November 21, 2019 \| CNN Business AI software defines people as male or female. That's a problem Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	November 12, 2019 \| Inverse Art therapy is finally being taken seriously as a tool for boosting health Elin Björling, senior research scientist, Human Centered Design & Engineering
	November 12, 2019 \| GeekWire Confronting the global ‘crisis’ of misinformation: Inside the UW’s new Center for an Informed Public Kate Starbird, associate professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	November 11, 2019 \| The Daily Dot PayPal and Venmo’s anti-terrorism regulations are causing headaches for average businesses Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	October 30, 2019 \| Mic Facial recognition misclassifies transgender and non-binary people, study finds Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	October 29, 2019 \| Popular Mechanics How the Internet Works: The 7 Steps It Took To Read This Article Cecilia Aragon, professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	October 29, 2019 \| KUOW How fanfiction is empowering young people Cecilia Aragon, professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	October 28, 2019 \| Logic Magazine The Body Instrumental Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	October 28, 2019 \| NBC News Why did Microsoft fund an Israeli firm that surveils West Bank Palestinians? Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	October 25, 2019 \| The Washington Post Civil rights leaders thought they’d figured out how to deal with Facebook. But now they are ‘livid.’ Kate Starbird, associate professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	October 23, 2019 \| New Scientist Inside the 1TB ImageNet data set used to train the world's AI Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	October 9, 2019 \| New Scientist UK launched passport photo checker it knew would fail with dark skin Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	October 5, 2019 \| The Seattle Times A higher purpose for fan fiction? Yes! It’s helping teach young and marginalized people to write, says UW professor Cecilia Aragon, professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	October 1, 2019 \| The Atlantic What Fan Fiction Teaches That the Classroom Doesn’t Cecilia Aragon, professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	September 21, 2019 \| Buzzfeed It’s Scarily Easy To Track Someone Around A City Via Their Instagram Stories Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	September 4, 2019 \| Vice Our Face Recognition Nightmare Began Decades Ago. Now It’s Expanding Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	August 22, 2019 \| The Wall Street Journal YouTube Channels Are Yanked for Alleged Disinformation Campaigns in Hong Kong Kate Starbird, assistant professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	August 7, 2019 \| King 5 UW study says art therapy can help teens with stress and headaches Elin Björling, senior research scientist, Human Centered Design & Engineering
	August 6, 2019 \| Vice Trump Wants to Make It Basically Impossible to Sue for Algorithmic Discrimination Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	August 5, 2019 \| KIRO Radio UW professor, former Storm player on how lies are spread on social media Kate Starbird, assistant professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	August 2, 2019 \| Seattle PI 'To promote an informed society': UW to launch new center studying fake news this fall Kate Starbird, assistant professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	July 29, 2019 \| Psychology Today Can We Stop the Spread of Misinformation? Kate Starbird, assistant professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	July 24, 2019 \| Nature Disinformation’s spread: bots, trolls and all of us Kate Starbird, assistant professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	July 23, 2019 \| Newsweek Russia Is Using Cold War Strategy to Undermine the Faith of Americans in the 2020 Election—Will It Work? Kate Starbird, assistant professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	July 22, 2019 \| GeekWire University of Washington lands $5 million to study fake news and misinformation Kate Starbird, assistant professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	June 28, 2019 \| Fortune Coming Off Paris Air Show High, Here's What Boeing Must Do to Get the 737 MAX (and Its Business) Back in the Air Cecilia Aragon, professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	June 27, 2019 \| Jezebel Amazon's Facial Analysis Program Is Building A Dystopic Future For Trans And Nonbinary People Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	June 25, 2019 \| Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 John Porter, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	June 19, 2019 \| The Seattle Globalist STEM networks aim to diversify tech fields Tsewone Melaku, Human Centered Design & Engineering alumna
	June 13, 2019 \| Exberliner It's the structures, not the tech: Os Keyes Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	June 3, 2019 \| Global News Russia wants Tinder data — but info could be used to target LGBTQ2 users Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	May 29, 2019 \| Buzzfeed Facial Recognition Technology Is Facing A Huge Backlash In The US. But Some Of The World’s Biggest Tech Companies Are Trying To Sell It In The Gulf. Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	May 15, 2019 \| Crosscut A UW engineer explains how facial recognition tech erases trans people Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	May 6, 2019 \| Seattle Met This Robot Is a Mind Reader Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	May 3, 2019 \| Scientific American Actually, We Should Not All Use They/Them Pronouns Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	April 23, 2019 \| Venture Beat A transgender AI researcher’s nightmare scenarios for facial recognition software Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	April 19, 2019 \| Next Avenue Who Shares Fake News? (We Know It Wasn’t You) Kate Starbird, assistant professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	April 6, 2019 \| Technology Review Hey Google, sorry you lost your ethics council, so we made one for you Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	April 5, 2019 \| Wired The tricky ethics of Google's cloud ambitions Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	April 3, 2019 \| Venture Beat Prominent AI researchers call on Amazon to stop selling Rekognition facial analysis to law enforcement Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	April 2, 2019 \| Info Security Google Has a Board-Level AI Ethical Dilemma Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	March 29, 2019 \| The Guardian 'Bias deep inside the code': the problem with AI 'ethics' in Silicon Valley Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	March 27, 2019 \| The Verge Google creates external advisory board to monitor it for unethical AI use Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	March 27, 2019 \| Business Insider Google set up an external ethics council for AI, but one of its members was called out for her views on trans people and immigration Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	March 19, 2019 \| The Washington Post Government using photos of visa applicants, dead people to test facial recognition software Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	March 18, 2019 \| Slate The Government Is Using the Most Vulnerable People to Test Facial Recognition Software Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	March 14, 2019 \| GeekWire AtariWomen wants you to meet the female engineers behind Centipede and Warlords Daniela Rosner, assistant professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	March 6, 2019 \| Wired Microsoft wants to stop AI's 'race to the bottom' Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	March 5, 2019 \| The Register The infamous AI gaydar study was repeated – and, no, code can't tell if you're straight or not just from your face Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	February 19, 2019 \| Motherboard Facial Recognition Software Regularly Misgenders Trans People Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	February 19, 2019 \| Geekwire How this healthcare outsider solved an industry blind spot, with a healthy dose of perseverance Beth Kolko, professors of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	February 12, 2019 \| CBC Twitter trolls stoked debates about immigrants and pipelines in Canada, data show Kate Starbird, assistant professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
	February 12, 2019 \| Fast Company 7 problems with Trump’s “American AI” Initiative Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	February 8, 2019 \| Boston Globe Artificial intelligence’s diversity problem Os Keyes, PhD student in Human Centered Design & Engineering
	January 8, 2019 \| KUOW Can we build a better social media network? Beth Kolko and Kate Starbird, professors of Human Centered Design & Engineering