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. |
October 29, 2018
HCDE PhD student Cynthia Bennett received the Best Student Paper Award at the 20th International Conference on Computers and Accessibility for her paper, "Interdependence as a Frame for Assistive Technology Research and Design." |
October 20, 2018
Human Centered Design & Engineering three-time alumnus Alex Thayer (PhD, '12; MS, '04; BS '00), Chief Experience Architect and Director of the Immersive Experiences Lab at HP, returned to campus in October 2018 to deliver a talk for the UW DUB community. |
October 9, 2018 UW Engineering
HCDE Assistant Professor Kate Starbird analyzes how false information spreads online. In a new interview with the College of Engineering, Starbird describes what it’s like to study information that’s disseminated to mislead, how it affects all of us, and how to be a savvier consumer of online content. |
October 2, 2018
In June 2018, HCDE PhD student Lucas Colusso attended the Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) conference in Hong Kong, thanks to support from HCDE and the UW Graduate School. Colusso reflects on his experience here. |
September 26, 2018
The Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering hosted a research mixer on September 24, 2018, which featured lightning style talks by UW faculty and industry partners about the latest research and trends in human-centered design. |
September 21, 2018
On October 4, 2018, HCDE PhD student Os Keyes will deliver a talk, "Encoding Gender: Bodies, Data & Identity in the Age of AI," as part of the Seattle University Mathematics Colloquium. |
September 6, 2018 Mashable.com
HCDE Professor Cecilia Aragon said she felt like she was "not smart enough" while she was completing her PhD. Now she's working to encourage her own students. "Often it only takes one voice," she says in this Mashable.com article. |
September 2, 2018
HCDE strives to enrich the education of our students by supporting travel to conferences and workshops. In 2018, HCDE supported PhD student Wendy Roldan as she participated in the GEM-ASEE Doctoral Engineering Research Showcase. Wendy shares her experience and reflections here. |
August 31, 2018
HCDE strives to enrich the education of our students by supporting travel to conferences and workshops. HCDE recently supported PhD student Taryn Bipat as she attended the 2018 International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym) in Paris. Taryn shares her experience here. |
August 21, 2018 College of Engineering
The College of Engineering highlights Meal Matchup, a project co-led by HCDE student Madison Holbrook (BS '18) and Lecturer Irini Spyridakis (MS '10) to pair excess food from UW dining halls with community agencies in need. The Meal Matchup pilot rolled out in May 2018. "The best part of this project is knowing you can dream up an idea, communicate it, find interested people, and develop something that will actually make a difference," Holbrook said. |
August 14, 2018
HCDE Assistant Professor Leah Findlater has been selected to receive a Mozilla Research Grant for her project "Task-Appropriate Synthesized Speech." Thanks to this award, Findlater will work with UW students to study the design of devices and interfaces that use voice interaction. |
August 8, 2018
HCDE Assistant Professor Leah Findlater has received an NSF grant to advance wearable sound awareness technologies for people who are deaf or hard of hearing. Findlater and her collaborators will be developing and evaluating new wearable devices to sense, localize, and identify sounds. |
August 6, 2018 UW News
An interdisciplinary team of researchers including HCDE alumna Alexis Hiniker (PhD '17) and Master's student Sijin Chen published a study about how children respond to voice-activated technologies. The researchers believe voice-activated devices could be designed to help better engage with children. |
