Updates from Human Centered Design & Engineering faculty, PhD students, and research scientists.
Autumn 2024
October 4, 2024
Nisha Devasia and Jin Ha Lee (UW Information School) published “The role of narrative in misinformation games” in the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review.
Melinda McClure Haughey with co-authors Rachel Moran-Prestridge (UW CIP) and Emma S. Spiro (UW Information School) published a blog post, “Recommendations for journalists covering election rumors in 2024.”
Kate Starbird, Joseph S. Schafer, and Adiza Awwal with co-authors Ashlyn B. Aske (UW Law), Danielle Lee Tomson (UW CIP), Stephen Prochaska (UW Information School), Rachel Moran-Prestridge (UW CIP) and Michael Grass (UW CIP) published a blog post, “What to expect when we’re electing: An object-oriented framework for pre-election rumors.”
Daniela Rosner will join Erin McElroy (UW Geography) and Manissa Maharawal (American University) at Town Hall on Saturday, October 5, 2024 for a discussion of McElroy’s book, “How Silicon Valley's Tactics Spread to Postsocialist Romania.”
Cecilia Aragon presented "From Fear to Freedom: How a Tech Visionary Overcame Fear to Soar" on October 3, 2024, hosted by the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA), Aerospace Career Enhancement (ACE), a non-profit that supports the development of the aerospace workforce in Washington state.
September 27, 2024
Danli Luo has been named to MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35 list. Danli was recognized in the Climate and Energy sector for her work building a biodegradable robot that makes aerial seeding more effective. Details of the project, conducted by Danli and her collaborators, are included in “Autonomous self-burying seed carriers for aerial seeding,” published by Nature in 2023.
Shana Hirsch and Ryan Kelly (UW School of Marine and Environmental Affairs), with co-authors Neha Acharya-Patel, Phyllis Akua Amamoo, Giomar H. Borrero-Pérez, Ni Kadek Dita Cahyani, Joape G. M. Ginigini, Kaleonani K. C. Hurley, Manuel Lopes-Lima, Mark Louie Lopez, Ntanganedzeni Mapholi, Koffi Nouho Ouattara, Diana A. Pazmiño, Yoshimi Rii, Fabiano Thompson, Sophie von der Heyden, Mrinalini Watsa, Vanessa Yepes-Narvaez, and Elizabeth Andruszkiewicz Allan, published “Centering accessibility, increasing capacity, and fostering innovation in the development of international eDNA standards” in Metabarcoding and Metagenomics.
Mark Haselkorn and David Ribes, with co-authors Tam K. Dao, Kenneth M. Evans, Michael D. Shannon, Christopher Bronk, Claudia Neuhauser, Evan Roberts, and Tommy Shih, released a workshop report “Responsible Collaboration Through Appropriate Research Security: A Workshop To Discuss and Study the Emergent Discipline of Research on Research Security” which offers a summary of the workshop of the same name held at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy in May 2024.
Megan Moldestad and Christian Helfrich (UW School of Public Health), with co-authors Ekaterina Anderson, Julian Brunner, Sherry Ball, Jay Orlander, Seppo Rinne, and George Sayre, published “User Experiences of Transitioning From a Homegrown Electronic Health Record to a Vendor-Based Product in the Department of Veterans Affairs: Qualitative Findings From a Mixed Methods Evaluation” in JMIR Formative Research.
Os Keyes published “Wondrous Transformations: A Maverick Physician, the Science of Hormones, and the Birth of the Transgender Revolution, Alison Li” in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences.
Kate Starbird was a panelist for “Addressing Researcher Harassment: A Fireside Chat and Panel Discussion to Launch New Researcher Support Tools” held September 20, 2024, hosted by the Institute for Data, Democracy and Politics (IDDP) at George Washington University. The event consisted of two panels and featured “testimony from researchers who have lived through being the target of… harassment and expert discussion on combating the alarming trend.” The first panel included Renée DiResta (author) and Kate Starbird; the second panel included Alex Abdo (Columbia University), Will Creeley (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE)), and Mary Anne Franks (George Washington University). Both panels were moderated by Brandy Zadrozny, senior reporter at NBC News.
Shana Hirsch was a panelist for “Environmental DNA for Oceans: White House Strategies, International Standards, and Critical Perspectives” held September 25, 2024, hosted by Ocean Nexus and sponsored by The Nippon Foundation. This panel explored “the Biden-Harris administration’s ocean science and justice policies and how they relate to eDNA.” The expert panel also included Yoshitaka Ota (Ocean Nexus & University of Rhode Island), Amelia Moore (University of Rhode Island), and Elaine Shen (NOAA & NSF).
Niharthi Muddada, a fellow in the UW Population Health Initiative’s 2024 Social Entrepreneurship Fellows Program, presented project findings in a campus-wide event at the end of the summer.
Sourojit Ghosh was quoted in “Here's How Generative AI Depicts Queer People” in Wired on April 2, 2024.
Kate Starbird was mentioned in “How Disinformation Research Came Under Fire: Academic and industry support has retreated amid a GOP assault” in the November-December 2024 issue of Mother Jones.