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. |
January 30, 2019
HCDE Assistant Professor Daniela Rosner is on a multidisciplinary team of University faculty bringing together educators, activists, artists, designers, and others for a symposium on the past and future of design practice. |
January 25, 2019
In a recent article in The Seattle Times, HCDE senior Aleenah Ansari shared her own story about finding a place in Engineering - even without seeing herself represented in the stories and textbooks around her. |
January 22, 2019
Join Human Centered Design & Engineering faculty members Drs. Brock Craft and Tyler Fox on an international exploration of issues and current topics in human-centered design. The program is open to students across UW, and dates of instruction are Sept. 1-22, 2019. |
January 17, 2019
This fellowship will support Keyes’ work in auditing facial recognition systems for bias, along the axes of gender, disability and race, with a focus on trans-inclusive methodologies |
January 15, 2019
HCDE students and faculty will share their discoveries and design-thinking methodologies with an international audience at the Interactions 19 Conference. |
January 9, 2019
HCDE Professors Beth Kolko and Kate Starbird believe online social networks have potential to bring people together for the greater social good, if our platforms are designed with the user’s best interests in mind. |
December 19, 2018 Columns Magazine
Samantha Gil Vargas (BS '18) knew she wanted to help others. At the UW she learned that helping begins with listening. |
December 17, 2018
Giovanna Scalone, a research scientist in HCDE, will present her research on designing reflection activities for students as part of the Frontiers in Higher Education Research Seminar, organized by the University of Washington's Center for Teaching and Learning. |
December 14, 2018
Meal Matchup, a project led by HCDE faculty member Irini Spyridakis, facilitates food recovery at the University of Washington through an open source, food donation matching software. Take a look at how it all works in this new promotional video with scenes from the UW, Seattle, our food deliverers, and more. |
December 4, 2018
Receiving a scholarship enabled HCDE student Madisen Arurang to make the most of her UW Engineering experience. Watch Madisen and Chemical Engineering student David Juergens describe how donors have made an impact on their education in a new video by the UW College of Engineering. |
December 3, 2018
In November 2018, several HCDE students received department awards to travel to Jersey City to attend and present at the Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW). Students Michael Beach, Os Keyes, Kenya Mejia, Andrew Neang, Wendy Roldan, and Yihan Yu reflect on their experiences. |
November 21, 2018
A new article about HCDE's K-12 outreach program, co-authored by HCDE PhD student Elena Agapie and Senior Lecturer Andrew Davidson, is published in the November-December 2018 issue of Interactions magazine. |
November 20, 2018
HCDE Professor Cecilia Aragon gave a plenary address on the human aspects of data science to a crowd of 13,000 attendees at the 2018 Supercomputing Conference in Dallas, Texas. |
November 19, 2018
Meghna Bhairappa, Master's student in Human Centered Design & Engineering, presented the interdisciplinary Meal Matchup project at the nation's largest conference focused on sustainability in higher education. |
November 16, 2018 UW Civil Engineering
HCDE research scientist Scott Miles is on an interdisciplinary team aimed at collecting, assessing, and archiving high-quality perishable data in the aftermath of disasters, to inform the development of resilient communities. Story via UW Civil Engineering. |
November 6, 2018
The Human Centered Design & Engineering 2018 Career Fair, held Nov. 1, 2018, was the department's largest to date welcoming 23 employers and nearly 500 students. The 2018 event saw record number of HCDE alumni representing their employers to recruit current students. |
