Updates from Human Centered Design & Engineering faculty, PhD students, and research scientists.
Summer 2025
June 27, 2025
Murtaza Ali and co-author Benjamin Xie had a column, Automated Benchmarking Infrastructure: Moving Toward Robust Investigations of Gen AI in Computing Education, published in ACM Inroads.
Aayushi Dangol had an extended abstract, Beyond Users: Supporting Children in Interpreting, Resisting, and Collaborating with AI, published in the Proceedings of the 24th Interaction Design and Children (IDC '25).
Aayushi Dangol and Julie Kientz, with co-authors Robert Wolfe, Daeun Yoo, Arya Thiruvillakkat, and Ben Chickadel, had an extended abstract, “If anybody finds out you are in BIG TROUBLE”: Understanding Children’s Hopes, Fears, and Evaluations of Generative AI, published in the Proceedings of the 24th Interaction Design and Children (IDC '25).
Aayushi Dangol, Trushaa Ramanan, and Julie Kientz, with co-authors Runhua Zhao, Robert Wolfe, and Jason Yip, had an article, “AI just keeps guessing”: Using ARC Puzzles to Help Children Identify Reasoning Errors in Generative AI, published in the Proceedings of the 24th Interaction Design and Children (IDC '25).
Aayushi Dangol, Trushaa Ramanan, and Julie Kientz, with co-authors Robert Wolfe, Runhua Zhao, JaeWon Kim, and Katie Davis, had an article, Children's Mental Models of AI Reasoning: Implications for AI Literacy Education, published in the Proceedings of the 24th Interaction Design and Children (IDC '25).
Meghna Gupta, Arpita B, and Julie Kientz had an article, "Being a nanny isn't just caregiving": An Analysis of How Nannies Seek Support in Online Communities like /r/Nanny, published in the Proceedings of the 4th Annual Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK '25).
Brett Halperin had an article, Crafting computational counter-media: Spatial story design of housing (in)justice and archival challenges, published in the Radical Housing Journal.
Kyler Menge and Gary Hsieh, with co-authors Barclay T. Stewart, T. Varugis Kurien, Caitlin Orton, Rebecca Estrada, Gretchen Carrougher, Callie Thompson, and Tam N. Pham, had an article, Optimizing the user-experience (UX) and −interface (UI) of a mHealth application to aid recovery from burn injury (BurnCORE) through a user-centered design approach, published in Burns Open.
Caroline Pitt, with co-authors Jessica Andrews, Melissa Carlson, Anessa Roth, and Jason Yip, had an extended abstract, Let's test it!: Designing peer-to-peer engineering games with and for children, published in the Proceedings of the 24th Interaction Design and Children (IDC '25).
Kate Starbird was quoted in the NBC News article, How Minnesota shooting conspiracy theories hijacked social media.
June 13, 2025
Sourojit Ghosh with co-authors Yanfu Liu, Cheng Guo had a paper, “Post-Editing Vs Neural Machine Translation: A Comparative Study of English ↔ Mandarin Translations in Daily Conversations,” published in The International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction.
Sean Munson with co-authors Alex Zhu, Jessica Sher, Richard Li, Otari Ioseliani, Leah Cantor, Elena Brewer, Karla Landis, David Bridges, Hanna Hunter, Cindy Lin, Sarah Psutka had a paper, “What motivates bladder cancer patients to be active? A qualitative study assessing attitudes towards physical activity and digital health technologies,” published in Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations.
Kate Starbird was a featured guest on KUOW’s Soundside program, “Clock is ticking for scientists to make the case against funding cuts.”
Samuel So was featured in the UW Daily article, "What UW students should know before entering the tech industry.”