May 2, 2019
HCDE PhD student Wendy Roldan has received the prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Roldan is a second-year PhD student in HCDE working to research and improve makerspaces for women. |
April 30, 2019
Chad P. Hall and Jp Avila, hosts of the This is Design School podcast, sat down with Human Centered Design & Engineering Associate Professor Sean Munson for a wide-ranging discussion of design education. In the 40-minute interview, Munson describes his background that led him to Engineering, what his day-to-day is like as a professor, and what he is currently researching. |
April 29, 2019 UW Today
HCDE undergraduates students Jonathan Tran and Katherine Yang, with UW iSchool faculty members Alexis Hiniker (HCDE PhD ' 17) and Katie Davis, conducted a study to understand what makes people compulsively check their phones and what experiences they find valuable. The team will present this work at the #chi2019 conference. |
April 16, 2019
Awarded annually to one faculty member in the College of Engineering, the Faculty Award for Teaching recognizes Kientz for her innovative contributions to engineering education and her advocacy for and engagement with students both in and outside of the classroom. |
April 15, 2019
HCDE students, alumni, and faculty will present their research in May at the 2019 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Two papers authored by HCDE researchers have earned Best Paper Award (representing the top 1% of submissions), and three have earned Honorable Mention distinctions (representing the top 5% of submissions). |
April 15, 2019
Oorja Chowdhary, a senior in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering, has been named to this year's cohort of the Husky 100. "The UW provided me the opportunity to learn UX design, a field that gives me the skills to connect with and understand the perspectives of widely diverse groups," Chowdhary said. "I'm looking forward to continuing my design experience by identifying sociotechnical problems in the world and designing tools to solve them." |
April 12, 2019
HCDE Senior Lecturer Andrew Davidson gave a keynote presentation about his work leading Engineering-focused K-12 outreach programs as part of the Interaction Design Education Summit on February 4, 2019. Find the full video here. |
April 11, 2019
In a week-long Directed Research Group over the 2019 spring break, UW students explored the hidden stories of the Atari Women and used new technologies to design artifacts that highlighted their narratives. |
April 10, 2019
HCDE held its fourth annual UX Careers Panel, hosted by alumna Rebecca Destello, in April 2019. This event brings HCDE alumni and industry partners to campus to share career success stories and tips with current students. |
April 8, 2019
Gary Hsieh, Associate Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering, will visit the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan for the 2019-2020 academic year on a Fulbright Scholar grant. |
April 4, 2019
Dr. Brenda Laurel, game design trailblazer, author, and virtual reality pioneer, will deliver the graduation address at the department's 2019 Graduation & Awards Celebration |
March 31, 2019
David W. McDonald, Professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering, and collaborators received the 10-year Impact Award at Ubicomp 2018 for the paper "Flowers or a Robot Army? Encouraging Awareness & Activity with Personal, Mobile Displays." |
March 31, 2019
HCDE announces the promotion of Dr. Daniela Rosner to Associate Professor with tenure, effective with the 2019-2020 academic year. Rosner co-directs HCDE's Tactile and Tactical Design Lab (TAT Lab), where she works with students and collaborators to discover new opportunities for sustainable technology development, broaden the diversity of design and engineering education, and extend theoretical frameworks that further our understanding of design and social change. |
March 18, 2019
Geekwire highlights AtariWomen, a new project pioneered by HCDE Prof. Daniela Rosner and visiting Prof. Pernille Bjorn. AtariWomen is a research project that profiles the women who helped design and build Atari's games four decades ago. |
March 15, 2019
HCDE Professor Mark Zachry has been named an ATTW Fellow by the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. This honor recognizes Dr. Zachry for his scholarly productivity, leadership, and service. |
March 8, 2019
On Saturday, February 23, HCDE welcomed high school students from ChickTech Seattle for a half-day coding workshop. The workshop was led by HCDE students in the Alternative Spring Break research group, who are in the final weeks preparing the user-centered design workshop curriculum they will take to middle and high school students in Neah Bay, Washington, over spring break. |
March 7, 2019
HCDE is pleased to announce the promotion of Dr. Kate Starbird to Associate Professor with tenure, effective with the 2019-2020 academic year. Starbird directs HCDE's Emerging Capacities of Mass Participation (emCOMP) Laboratory, where she works with students to study the dynamics of massive participation and interaction enabled by new and social media. |
March 5, 2019
Dr. Jan Spyridakis, Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering and renowned leader in the field, will retire at the end of the 2018-2019 academic year. We look back at Dr. Spyridakis' forty-year career with the department. |
March 4, 2019
Each quarter, select HCDE courses host end-of-quarter events to showcase student work. All members of the HCDE and UW community are welcome to attend. Light refreshments are provided. |
March 4, 2019
HCDE held its annual alumni/student Network Night on March 4, 2019. Network Night features the opportunity for current students to connect with alumni and industry friends to discuss career paths and share tips for making a successful transition from UW to the working world. View our lineup of 2019 alumni mentors here. |
March 3, 2019
On March 1, 2019, HCDE held an event to showcase and discuss the latest research to emerge from the department's faculty labs, student independent studies, and research groups. See our lineup of presenters here. |
February 25, 2019
The application of facial recognition technology is becoming commonplace in modern life, but research by HCDE PhD student Os Keyes concludes that the technology carries deep risks for vulnerable communities—risks made more likely by a lack of regulation. Keyes recently testified to the Washington State House of Representatives as an expert witness in support of a proposed bill to prohibit state and local government from using facial recognition technology. |
February 20, 2019 Geekwire
HCDE Prof. Beth Kolko is featured on the GeekWire Health Tech Podcast about her company Shift Labs. Originally a healthcare "outsider" herself, Kolko believes non-expert innovation is how we solve wicked problems, "because we have to learn how to see things differently if we’re going to solve things differently." Listen to the episode here. |
February 12, 2019
On February 8, 2019, Human Centered Design & Engineering Professor Beth Kolko delivered the keynote address to AIA Seattle's Medical Device Forum, on the topic of innovation in medical design. |
January 31, 2019
On Monday, February 28, HCDE invited local experts to host a storytelling workshop and panel discussion aimed at helping students prepare for job interviewing and practice building a strong self-identity in their careers. |
