Updates from Human Centered Design & Engineering faculty, PhD students, and research scientists.
August 2024
August 30, 2024
Shana Lee Hirsch (Co-Director) and collaborators at the Pacific Marine Energy Center (PMEC) were awarded $17.1M from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) intended to help strengthen and expand marine energy research and development and bolster marine energy testing infrastructure. Awarded funds will support the development of marine energy curriculum and graduate students, expand access to instruments and facilities, and enable strategic partnerships to support wave and tidal energy R&D across our region. PMEC is comprised of the University of Washington, Oregon State University, and the University of Alaska Fairbanks; of the total award to PMEC, $5.72M will be allocated to the University of Washington.
August 9, 2024
Gary Hsieh and Lucy Wang received a Microsoft AI and the New Future of Work Award: “Accelerating Research Translation into Design Practice Using Generative AI.” This work will explore the potential of generative AI to convert academic findings into a designer-friendly format.
Cecilia Aragon with co-authors Tianna Miles, Bernease Herman, and Sarah Evans published “Black Women Getting a Seat at the Table in the Video Game Industry” in The International Journal of Organizational Diversity.
Ruoxi Shang, Gary Hsieh, and Chirag Shah had a paper accepted to AIES 2024: “Trusting Your AI Agent Emotionally and Cognitively: Development and Validation of a Semantic Differential Scale for AI Trust.”
August 2, 2024
John Fowler and Mark Zachry will present “VizCare: Using UCD Techniques to Impact the Child Welfare System” at the IEEE Professional Communication Society Conference. This work has been featured in UW Today.
Pitch Sinlapanuntakul, Sophie Park, Connie Yang, and Mark Zachry published "'It Was Frustrating to Have to Constantly Redesign': An Exploration of Authenticity in Advanced UX Education" in the Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference.
Pitch Sinlapanuntakul and Mark Zachry published "Augmenting Self-presentation: Augmented Reality (AR) Filters Use Among Young Adults" in Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality, HCII 2024, Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Sourojit Ghosh, Nina Lutz, and Aylin Caliskan had a paper accepted to AIES 2024: “'I don’t see myself represented here at all': User Experiences of Stable Diffusion Outputs Containing Representational Harims across Gender Identities and Nationalities.”
Sourojit Ghosh, with co-authors Pranav Venkit, Sanjana Gautam, Shomir Wilson, and Aylin Caliskan, had a paper accepted to AIES 2024: “Do Generative AI Models Output Harm While Representing Non-western Cultures: Evidence from a Community-Centered Approach.”
Sourojit Ghosh had a paper accepted to AIES 2024: “Interpretations, Representations, and Stereotypes of Caste within Text-to-Image Generators.”
July 26, 2024
Mark Haselkorn (PI), Sonia Savelli (Co-PI), Lynette Arias (Co-Director), David Ribes (Values Area Lead), and Brie Yost (Operations Manager) were awarded a $50,000,000 National Science Foundation grant for the “Safeguarding the Entire Community of the U.S. Research Ecosystem (SECURE) Center,” a national consortium of research institutions designed to bolster national research security. In addition to the national center at UW, five regional centers will guide and empower research stakeholders in the development, adoption and use of the SECURE Shared Virtual Environment: SECURE Northeast led by Northeastern University, SECURE Southeast led by Emory University, SECURE Midwest led by the University of Missouri, SECURE Southwest led by the University of Texas San Antonio and Texas A&M University, and SECURE West led by the University of Washington. News of this award has been covered by Science, Seattle Times and GeekWire.
Sayamindu Dasgupta (Co-PI), with Leilani Battle (PI), Amy Zhang (Sr. Personnel) and Tanu Mitra (Sr. Personnel) of the Design Use Build (DUB) group, have been awarded a $465,000 National Science Foundation grant, “The DUB REU Program for Human-Centered Computing Research.” This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site addresses a lack of human-centered scientists, analysts, developers, accessibility experts, and designers in the US computing workforce by providing undergraduate students with valuable training and research experiences to help them become independent and mindful contributors to society.
Brett Halperin was awarded the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies (UW) Graduate Labor Research Grant with collaborators Daniela Rosner, Diana Flores Ruíz and community partners the Workers Justice Project and Cynthia Tobar.
Caitlin Lustig, Meghna Gupta, and Daniela Rosner, with co-authors Maya Kaneko, Kavita Dattani, and Audrey Desjardins, received the Best Paper award for “Porous by Design: How Childcare Platforms Impact Worker Personhood, Safety, and Connection,” published in the Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference.
Brett Halperin and Daniela Rosner, with co-authors William Rhodes, Kai Leshne, and Afroditi Psarra, received an Honorable Mention award for “Resistive Threads: Electronic Streetwear as Social Movement Material,” published in the Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference.
Caitlin Lustig and Daniela Rosner, with co-authors Maya Kaneko and Audrey Desjardins, had a pictorial, “Care Layering: Complicating Design Patterns,” published in the Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference.
Rebecca Michelson, Caitlin Lustig, Daniela Rosner, and Josephine Hoy, with co-author Dorothy R. Santos, had a pictorial, “Worlding with Tarot: Design, Divination, and the Technological Imagination,” published in the Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference.
Sean Munson with collaborators Laurel Hansell, Clarissa Hsu, Karen Margolis, Mathew Thompson, Kelly Ehrlich, Yoshio Hall, Melissa Anderson, Sarah Evers, Miriam Marcus-Smith, Jennifer McClure, and Beverly Green published an article, “Patient experiences with blood pressure measurement methods for hypertension diagnosis: Qualitative findings from the BP-CHECK study,” in the American Journal of Hypertension.
Ridley Jones LeDoux, Charlotte P. Lee, Sucheta Ghoshal, and Mark Haselkorn published an article, “Concept of Operations as Epistemic Object: The Sociotechnical Design Roles of a Systems Engineering Document,” in the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.
Will Sutherland and Charlotte P. Lee, with co-author Drew Paine, published an article, “‘The Cloud is Not Not IT’: Ecological Change in Research Computing in the Cloud,” in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW).
Melinda McClure Haughey, with co-authors Danielle Lee Tomson and Stephen Prochaska, had an article, “Online rumors sparked by the Trump assassination attempt spread rapidly, on both ends of the political spectrum,” published in The Conversation.
Brock Craft and Adam Hyland presented “Designing Learning Activities” at the 2024 Teaching and Learning with AI Conference at the University of Central Florida.
Kate Starbird will moderate Stand with the Facts: Protecting Election Integrity with special guest, NPR correspondent Shannon Bond in discussion with researcher Sarah Nguyễn (UW CIP). Hosted by KNKX, KUOW, and the UW's Center for an Informed Public, this event will take place on September 11, 2024, at 7:30pm at Town Hall Seattle.