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Fri, 04/07/2023

On April 5, 2023, HCDE Teaching Professor Brock Craft participated in a UW faculty panel presentation about the use of ChatGPT in academia. Panelists discussed the impact ChatGPT has on teaching, how to make informed decisions about the use of ChatGPT, and generally how to use AI technology responsibly in enhancing student learning. View the panel recording here.

Mon, 04/03/2023

HCDE PhD student Brett Halperin has been awarded a prestigious fellowship from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) to support his research on computational cinema and media design for social change with an emphasis on housing justice.

Sun, 04/02/2023

On Husky Giving Day April 6, support HCDE students by expanding access to conference travel. Your gift enriches the HCDE student experience and enhances HCDE's influence in the field.

Fri, 03/31/2023

HCDE PhD candidate Calvin Liang is working with trans and queer youth to design an online sex education resource and build more inclusive sexual health experiences for all.
 

Tue, 03/07/2023

In a new report produced for the University Marine Energy Research Community, HCDE Research Scientist Dr. Shana Hirsch provides a systematic analysis of the marine energy research and innovation ecosystem, with the goal of spurring innovation and collaboration across marine energy and adjacent sectors.

Fri, 02/24/2023

HCDE Professor Cindy Atman presented her research on Design Signatures at the National Science Foundation's 2022 Extraordinary Engineering Impacts on Society symposium. Atman's Design Signatures project aims to help designers track activities in their design processes, helping them visualize their processes to become better designers over time. View a recording of the presentation here.

Tue, 02/14/2023

HCDE PhD alumnus Dr. Kai Lukoff has received an ACM SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award. Lukoff's dissertation focused on how people can gain greater control over the time they spend with digital technology.

Wed, 02/01/2023

Leslie Coney, a second-year PhD student in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering, has received a research award from the newly announced Google Health Equity Research Initiative. This grant supports Coney's work aimed at connecting Black birthing individuals with non-hospital care networks. 

Wed, 02/01/2023

HCDE alumna Dr. Alexis Hope (BS '10, MS '12) has been named a 2023 United States Artists Fellow in the category of Architecture & Design. The prestigious fellowship honors creative accomplishments of artists and supports their ongoing artistic and professional development.

Tue, 01/31/2023

HCDE mourns the loss of alumna Karen Kasonic who passed away on January 14, 2023, after a long struggle with breast cancer.

Mon, 01/30/2023 | UW Electrical & Computer Engineering

Levity Technologies, a project led by UW Electrical & Computer Engineering researchers and HCDE Assistant Professor Nadya Peek, has received a $50k grant from the UW CoMotion Innovation Gap Fund. Levity is revolutionizing sample mixing in biology labs with robotics, improving yields and accuracy.

Sat, 01/28/2023 | UW Magazine

HCDE alumna Rachel Barnecut (BS ’12, MS ’18) is featured in UW Magazine about her career transition to entrepreneurship. In the interview with fellow alumna Aleenah Ansari (BS '19), Barnecut discusses creating Matcha Magic, a plant-based Matcha bar located in Bellevue.
 

Wed, 01/11/2023

Julie Kientz is the UW lead on the AI Institute for Exceptional Education, a new multi-campus institute that will create artificial intelligence technologies for children with speech and language processing challenges. Collaborating with Kientz at UW is Electrical & Computer Engineering Professor Mari Ostendorf.

Fri, 12/02/2022

A UW research team led by HCDE PhD student Spencer Williams is working with the public to design research summaries that improve awareness and trust in COVID vaccine safety research.

Thu, 12/01/2022

HCDE researchers Jay Cunningham, Daniela Rosner, and Julie Kientz have received a grant from Google Research to develop equitable, community-collaborative design methods to mitigate racial disparities in automated speech recognition technologies.

Mon, 11/28/2022

Help HCDE build a more accessible and equitable student experience by making a gift to support students this #GivingTuesday, November 29. Donations to the Mary B. Coney Endowed Fund help send PhD students to conferences and workshops while gifts to the Kientz & Patel Student Emergency Fund provide immediate impact to students facing unexpected financial hardship.

Mon, 11/14/2022

Human Centered Design & Engineering students and community partners came together for an autumn quarter design jam to address the question: how might we solidify the presence of small retail stores in our cities?

Fri, 11/04/2022

A new grant from the University of Washington's Population Health Initiative supports HCDE PhD student Tricia Aung and Associate Professor Sean Munson in developing a pilot human-centered design hub within the Government of Tanzania that will be equipped to innovate solutions to nutrition issues.

Thu, 10/20/2022

On October 13, 2022, HCDE Professor and Chair Julie Kientz and former Washington State Governor and Challenge Seattle CEO Christine Gregoire spoke at an event hosted by CoMotion’s Mobility Innovation Center to celebrate the Virtual Coordination Center for Multimodal Corridor Management project.

Mon, 10/10/2022

The grant is part of the National Science Foundation's new Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) program, designed to support the creation of sustainable, high-impact, open-source ecosystems. Collaborating with Peek is Lilo Pozzo, a professor in the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering.

Thu, 10/06/2022

The three year, $1.8 million award is part of an investment by the National Science Foundation in research projects designed to increase opportunities for US workers and generate positive societal and economic impacts at the local and national level.

Thu, 10/06/2022

A new project led by HCDE PhD student Brett Halperin and Associate Professor Daniela Rosner asks the question, "how might interactive sonic narrative streetwear support urban community-based amplification of space, place, and belonging?" Urban@UW is supporting this work with a Research Spark Grant.

Fri, 09/23/2022

HCDE welcomes three new professors to the faculty in the 2022-2023 academic year. Arpita and Alan Marks are joining the department as assistant teaching professors, and Ana Pinto da Silva is joining the department as an associate teaching professor and director of the Master of Human Computer Interaction + Design (MHCI+D) program.

Fri, 09/23/2022

All Things HCDE is a podcast created by a group of HCDE students in the Summer 2022 Design for Passion series. The 37 minute podcast is now available on HCDE's YouTube Channel.

Thu, 09/15/2022

Meena Muralikumar, an HCDE PhD candidate, is awarded the 2022 Google PhD Fellowship in the category of Human Computer Interaction. The Fellowship supports Muralikumar's investigations into supporting UX Practitioners to design with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.