November 22, 2017
A team of designers including HCDE Assistant Professor Daniela Rosner has received the 2017 Seattle Design Foundation grant for a proposed project addressing the question, "How can we better design for future dialogues across generations and demographics?" |
November 17, 2017
On November 10, 2017, HCDE Professor and Chair David McDonald visited Virginia Tech University's department of Computer Science to give a lecture about his research on the gender gap in Wikipedia. |
November 9, 2017
In honor of Veterans Day, HCDE recognizes army veteran and HCDE faculty member: artist, technologist, and educator Dr. Tyler Fox. Fox’s background encompasses research and art in areas as broad as posthumanism and physical computing, and he attributes his career to the freedoms allowed by his service in the United States Army.
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November 3, 2017
HCDE Assistant Professor Kate Starbird is embarking on a research project to study how people adapt to power outages and water shortages immediately following a natural disaster, to help policymakers, businesses and individuals better prepare for the future. The team will use earthquakes in Los Angeles as a case study. |
October 5, 2017
NBC News interviews HCDE Professor Cecilia Aragon, the first Latina full professor in the College of Engineering, on her experience in the field and becoming a role model and mentor to younger Latinas. |
October 4, 2017
HCDE mourns the loss of dedicated alumnus and affiliate faculty member Mike Sinkula. Mike graduated with his Master's in HCDE in 2014 and has been an instructor of HCDE's user-centered web design course ever since. He passed away in his home on Friday, September 27, 2017. |
September 28, 2017
Shift Labs, the medical device company started by HCDE Professor Beth Kolko, has received the Global Health Innovator Award at the 2017 MedTech Conference for their work developing DripAssist, a low-cost, intuitively-designed portable infusion rate monitor. |
September 26, 2017
HCDE Senior Lecturer Andrew Davidson is on a team of multidisciplinary University of Washington faculty members selected to receive a College of Engineering award to fund work on Arduino project-based learning in early engineering education. |
September 18, 2017
HCDE is pleased to announce that Dr. Nadya Peek will join the department’s faculty as an assistant professor, beginning February 2018. Peek will bring a wealth of knowledge in machines and digital fabrication to HCDE’s interdisciplinary faculty. |
September 11, 2017
HCDE's Center for Engineering Learning & Teaching (CELT) is hosting a two-day workshop on reflection in engineering education, bringing over 60 leaders in this emerging community together on the UW campus on September 14-15, 2017.
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August 24, 2017
HCDE senior Caleb Park is currently taking a gap year from the UW to explore opportunities abroad. In August 2017, he was invited to give a presentation about HCDE to South Korea's International Forum for the Educational Revolution (IFER). Next, Park will travel to China to work at the Tsinghua University as an HCI research assistant. |
August 16, 2017 College of Engineering
HCDE major Tsewone Melaku is aligning her interests in engineering with her passion to make STEM education accessible to underrepresented high school students. |
August 11, 2017 The Whole U
The University of Washington's Whole U catches up with HCDE Associate Professor Julie Kientz for a Faculty Friday spotlight. By limiting technology's user burdens, Kientz crafts diverse applications to benefit population health as director of HCDE's Computing for Healthy Living and Learning Lab. |
August 6, 2017
HCDE PhD student Kiley Sobel reports on her experience attending the Interaction Design & Children (IDC) conference at Stanford University in June 2017. |
August 2, 2017 Fast Company
Fast Company Co.Design features HCDE Assistant Professor Daniela Rosner and her values of incorporating maintenance and repair as part of the product design process. |
July 12, 2017
HCDE Professor Cynthia J. Atman will receive the 2017 Alfred N. Goldsmith Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Communication from the IEEE Professional Communication Society. |
July 10, 2017
HCDE senior Runyuan (Jason) Chen shares his experience presenting “An Exploration of Self-Transcendence In Solo Travel,” with teammates Aaron Joya, Leena Choi, and ShinYoung (Lucia) Choi, for the Student Research Competition at the 2017 CHI Conference. |
July 9, 2017
HCDE PhD student Lucas Colusso shares his experience attending, presenting at, and volunteering for the annual Conference on Designing Interactive Systems in Edinburgh, UK. |
July 5, 2017
HCDE PhD Candidate John R. Porter is the recipient of a Microsoft Dissertation Grant to support his research on making gaming more accessible to people with motor disabilities. |
June 29, 2017
In June 2017, a team of HCDE students were flown to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, to present their innovative concept for a virtual reality analysis tool designed to support the Mars 2020 rover mission. |
June 28, 2017
HCDE is pleased to announce that Dr. Leah Findlater is joining the department as an assistant professor, bringing her expertise in the area of accessibility for mobile and wearable technologies to our interdisciplinary faculty. |
June 22, 2017
HCDE welcomed students, future students, alumni, Corporate Affiliates Program members, and friends for our annual Open House on June 1, 2017. View the recipients of HCDE's annual Capstone awards and photos from the event, here. |
June 21, 2017
In the HCDE capstone course, graduating students put into practice all they have gained throughout their coursework and apply it to an identified problem - either proposed by an industry affiliate or discovered by the students themselves. HCDE presents the 2017 undergraduate capstone projects here. |
June 14, 2017
The department of Human Centered Design & Engineering held its 2017 Graduation & Awards Ceremony on Friday, June 9 in the Husky Union Building. Find a list of graduates from the year and view the 2017 Awards of Excellence recipients. |
June 9, 2017
Jerrod Larson's 2017 Commencement Address for the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering featured a choose-your-own adventure style ending. |
