April 23, 2025
Faculty and students from the University of Washington’s Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering will again have a strong presence at the 2025 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), the premier international conference on Human-Computer Interaction.
HCDE researchers are contributing to 33 papers published in the 2025 CHI conference, including one selected for the Best Paper Award recognition (given to the top 1% of submissions) and five selected for Best Paper Honorable Mention recognition (given to the top 5% of submissions). In addition, HCDE Professor Kate Starbird will be named to the ACM SIGCHI Academy, and Professors Cecilia Aragon and Nadya Peek will be honored with ACM SIGCHI Special Recognition.
Researchers from the UW community overall contributed to 82 papers and journal articles. These publications draw from 15 different UW programs, demonstrating the power of interdisciplinary research that is at the heart of the UW DUB community. Read the full list of UW contributions on the DUB website.
CHI 2025 will be held from April 26 - May 1 in Yokohama, Japan. Find information about contributions of HCDE researchers below. Names of HCDE students and faculty are in bold.
CHI BEST PAPER AWARD
Deploying and Examining Beacon for At-Home Patient Self-Monitoring With Critical Flicker Frequency
- Richard Li, UW Computer Science & Engineering
- Philip Vutien, UW Gastroenterology / Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System
- Sabrina Omer, UW Gastroenterology
- Michael Yacoub, UW Gastroenterology
- George Ioannou, UW Gastroenterology / Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System
- Ravi Karkar, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Sean A Munson, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
- James Fogarty, UW Computer Science & Engineering
BEST PAPER Honorable Mention
Deploying and Examining Beacon for At-Home Patient Self-Monitoring With Critical Flicker Frequency
- Blair Subbaraman, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
- Nathaneal Bursch, UW Mechanical Engineering
- Nadya Peek, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
BEST PAPER Honorable Mention
Micro-Narratives: A Scalable Method for Eliciting Stories of People's Lived Experience
- Amira Skeggs, University of Cambridge
- Ashish Mehta, Stanford University
- Valerie Yap, University of Cambridge
- Seray B Ibrahim, King's College London
- Charla "Aubrey" Rhodes, King's College London
- James J Gross, Stanford University
- Sean A Munson, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
- Predrag Klasnja, University of Michigan
- Amy Orben, University of Cambridge
- Petr Slovak, King's College London
BEST PAPER Honorable Mention
Technical Responses to Critique: The Case of Skin Tone
- Sayan Bhattacharjee, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
- David Ribes, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
BEST PAPER Honorable Mention
The End of "Trust and Safety"?: Examining the Future of Content Moderation and Upheavals in Professional Online Safety Efforts
- Rachel Elizabeth Moran, UW Information School
- Joseph S Schafer, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
- Mert Bayar, UW Information School
- Kate Starbird, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
BEST PAPER Honorable Mention
The Social Construction of Visualizations: Practitioner Challenges and Experiences of Visualizing Race and Gender
- Priya Dhawka, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
- Sayamindu Dasgupta, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
"AI Is Soulless": Hollywood Film Workers Strike and Emerging Perceptions of Generative Cinema
- Brett A Halperin, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
- Daniela Rosner, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
Canvil: Designerly Adaptation for LLM-Powered User Experiences
- K J Kevin Feng, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
- Q Vera Liao, Microsoft
- Ziang Xiao, Johns Hopkins University
- Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Microsoft
- Amy X Zhang, UW Computer Science & Engineering
- David W McDonald, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
Children Using Tabletop Telepresence Robots for Collaboration: A Longitudinal Case Study of Hybrid and Online Intergenerational Participatory Design
- Casey Lee Hunt, University of Colorado
- Kaiwen Sun, University of Michigan
- Zahra Dhuliawala, University of Maryland, College Park
- Fumi Tsukiyama, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
- Allison J Druin, J S Bryant School
- Amanda Huynh, The Ohio State University
- Daniel Leithinger, University of Colorado
- Jason Yip, UW Information School
Cultivating Computational Thinking and Social Play Among Neurodiverse Preschoolers in Inclusive Classrooms
- Maitraye Das, Northeastern University
- Megan Tran, UW Art + Art History + Design / UW Information School
- Amanda Chih-han Ong, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
- Julie A Kientz, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
- Heather Feldner, UW Rehabilitation Medicine
Does the Story Matter? Applying Narrative Theory to an Educational Misinformation Escape Room Game
- Nisha Devasia, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering / UW Information School
- Runhua Zhao, UW Information School
- Jin Ha Lee, UW Information School
Echoes of Care: Unveiling the Intertwined Tensions Between Childcare Work and Voice Assistants
- Meghna Gupta, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
- Audrey Desjardins, UW Art + Art History + Design
"Even Though I Went Through Everything, I Didn't Feel Like I Learned a Lot": Insights From Experiences of Non-Computer Science Students Learning to Code
- Murtaza Ali, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
- Sayamindu Dasgupta, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
Exploring AI-Based Support in Speech-Language Pathology for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Children
- Aaleyah Lewis, UW Computer Science & Engineering
- Aayushi Dangol, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
- Hyewon Suh, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
- Abbie Olszewski, University of Nevada, Reno
- James Fogarty, UW Computer Science & Engineering
- Julie A Kientz, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
From Camera-Eye to AI: Exploring the Interplay of Cinematography and Computational Visual Storytelling
- Brett A Halperin, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
- Stephanie M Lukin, US Army Research Laboratory
IdeaSynth: Iterative Research Idea Development Through Evolving and Composing Idea Facets With Literature-Grounded Feedback
- Kevin Pu, University of Toronto
- K J Kevin Feng, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
- Tovi Grossman, University of Toronto
- Tom Hope, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
- Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
- Matt Latzke, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
- Jonathan Bragg, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
- Joseph Chee Chang, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
- Pao Siangliulue, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Identifying Opportunities and Envisioning Ecological Momentary Interoceptive Awareness Interventions With Young Women
- Phoebe A Staab, King's College London
- Arpita, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
- Petr Slovak, King's College London
Immersive Biography: Supporting Intercultural Empathy and Understanding for Displaced Cultural Objects in Virtual Reality
- Ke Zhao, Wuhan University / Duke Kunshan University
- Ruiqi Chen, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering / Duke Kunshan University
- Xiaziyu Zhang, Wuhan University
- Chenxi Wang, Politecnico di Milano
- Siling Chen, Wuhan University
- Xiaoguang Wang, Wuhan University
- Yujue Wang, Wuhan University
- Xin Tong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Guangzhou Duke Kunshan University
Incloodle-Classroom: Technology for Inclusive Joint Media Engagement in a Neurodiverse Kindergarten Classroom
- Kiley Sobel, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
- Maitraye Das, Northeastern University
- Sara M Behbakht, IDEO
- Julie A Kientz, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
"I Want to Think Like an SLP": A Design Exploration of AI-Supported Home Practice in Speech Therapy
- Aayushi Dangol, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
- Aaleyah Lewis, UW Computer Science & Engineering
- Hyewon Suh, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
- Xuesi Hong, UW Global Innovation Exchange
- Hedda Meadan, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- James Fogarty, UW Computer Science & Engineering
- Julie A Kientz, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
Leaky Cups: Tinkering With Hydrofeminist Temporalities for HCI
- Cayla Key, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering / Northumbria University
- Cally Gatehouse, Northumbria University
- Stevie Koepp, UW Architecture / UW Landscape Architecture
- Nick Taylor, Newcastle University
Mediating the Marginal: A Quantitative Analysis of Curated LGBTQ+ Content on Instagram
- Garrett Souza, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Nina Lutz, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
- Katlyn M Turner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ontologies in Design: How Imagining a Tree Reveals Possibilities and Assumptions in Large Language Models
- Nava Haghighi, Stanford University
- Sunny Yu, Stanford University
- James A Landay, Stanford University
- Daniela Rosner, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
PPG Earring: Wireless Smart Earring for Heart Health Monitoring
- Qiuyue "Shirley" Xue, UW Computer Science & Engineering
- Dilini Nissanka, UW Computer Science & Engineering
- Jiachen Tammy Yan, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
- Ruiqing Wang, UW Global Innovation Exchange
- Shwetak N Patel, UW Computer Science & Engineering / UW Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Vikram Iyer, UW Computer Science & Engineering
Shifting the Focus: Exploring Video Accessibility Strategies and Challenges for People With ADHD
- Lucy Jiang, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
- Woojin Ko, Cornell Tech
- Shirley Yuan, Cornell University
- Tanisha Shende, Oberlin College
- Shiri Azenkot, Cornell Tech
SPECTRA: Personalizable Sound Recognition for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users Through Interactive Machine Learning
- Steven M Goodman, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
- Emma J McDonnell, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
- Jon E Froehlich, UW Computer Science & Engineering
- Leah Findlater, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
Stills From the Inner Ear Shorts: Collecting and Living With Data
- Wyatt Olson, UW Art + Art History + Design
- Freesoul El Shabazz-Thompson, UW Art + Art History + Design
- Melanie Wells, UW Art + Art History + Design
- Chuanzhe Xiong, UW Art + Art History + Design
- Janey Yee, UW Art + Art History + Design
- Julia R Saimo, UW Art + Art History + Design
- Ocean Vu, UW Art + Art History + Design
- Jonathan Narita, UW Art + Art History + Design
- Brock Craft, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
- Timea Tihanyi, UW Art + Art History + Design
- Audrey Desjardins, UW Art + Art History + Design
The Cruel Optimism of Tech Work: Tech Workers' Affective Attachments in the Aftermath of 2022-23 Tech Layoffs
- Samuel So, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
- Vannary Sou, UW Information School
- Sean A Munson, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
- Sucheta Ghoshal, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
The Role of ICTs in the Maintenance and Reproduction of Digital Border Assemblages
- Lubna Razaq, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
- Sucheta Ghoshal, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
"They've Over-Emphasized That One Search": Controlling Unwanted Content on TikTok's for You Page
- Julie A Vera, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
- Sourojit Ghosh, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
Underground AI? Critical Approaches to Generative Cinema Through Amateur Filmmaking
- Brett A Halperin, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
- Diana Flores Ruíz, UW Cinema & Media Studies
- Daniela Rosner, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
What's in Your Kit? Mental Health Technology Kits for Depression Self-Management
- Eleanor R Burgess, Northwestern University
- Sean A Munson, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
- David C Mohr, Northwestern University
- Madhu Reddy, University of California, Irvine
"What Would I Want to Make? Probably Everything": Practices and Speculations of Blind and Low Vision Tactile Graphics Creators
- Gina Clepper, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
- Emma J McDonnell, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
- Leah Findlater, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
- Nadya Peek, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering