Mon, 02/22/2021 | College of Engineering

HCDE PhD candidate Os Keyes unpacks how and where bias occurs in artificial intelligence. Spoiler: it’s everywhere.

Fri, 02/19/2021

The new collaboration with UserTesting will provide students in HCDE with a new tool to conduct user research in courses including usability studies and capstone. The UserTesting platform will enable students to gain real-time feedback from real humans around the world.

Tue, 01/26/2021 | UW Graduate School

HCDE master's student Devin Ajimine and @MHCI+D grad Marisa Chentakul teamed up to create Uplift Locally, a website to find local, Black-owned businesses through an interactive map. What began as a Washington-based directory now shares more than 3,000 Black-owned restaurants in 39 states. Read how their education in human-centered design helped them go about this project.

Tue, 01/12/2021

Presented by HCDE alumni Ashley Boone and Monica Posluszny, with Assistant Teaching Professor Irini Spyridakis, one HCDE project explored STEM outreach with underrepresented communities through play, creativity, and movement, and the other explored VR to promote sustainability, behavior, and climate change understanding among college students.

Mon, 01/11/2021

As a Twitch Research Fellow, HCDE PhD student Keri Mallari will receive a $10,000 award and a mentorship connection with a scientist at Twitch to help support her independent academic research. 

Wed, 12/16/2020

Julie Kientz, HCDE professor and chair, has been named a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery, the world's largest and most prestigious society of computing professionals. The Distinguished Member honor recognizes individuals who have achieved significant accomplishments or have made a significant impact on the computing field.

Fri, 12/04/2020

Over the next two months, HCDE Master's student Della Sigrest and fellow finalists in the IxDA's Student Design Charette will work to address the challenge: "How might we achieve greater collective wellbeing through the power of our individual data?"

Mon, 11/30/2020

Sun, 11/22/2020

On November 19, 2020, HCDE hosted a webinar about the state of HCDE today—what our operations look like during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how HCDE researchers have pivoted to pandemic-responsive research. In a conversation moderated by HCDE Teaching Professor Brock Craft, hear from HCDE Professor and Chair Julie Kientz about how families are using technology at home during the pandemic; Associate Professor Charlotte P. Lee about how employees and employers are adapting to remote work; and Associate Professor Kate Starbird about how misinformation and disinformation related to the pandemic is spreading online.

Fri, 11/13/2020

A new grant will support HCDE Assistant Professor Nadya Peek and Joshua Smith, Professor in Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering, in the development of open-source, customizable co-bots to enable experts to develop their own automated processes and experiments.

Fri, 11/06/2020

HCDE Associate Professor Leah Findlater, PhD students Lotus Zhang and Steven Goodman, PhD alumna Cynthia L. Bennett received awards at ASSETS 2020, the International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility.

Wed, 10/21/2020

HCDE Assistant Professor Nadya Peek is on an interdisciplinary team of chemical engineers and chemists to create and demonstrate modular bioreactor technologies that can allow biorefineries and fermentation facilities to repurpose infrastructure and resources for distributed bio-manufacturing.

Thu, 10/15/2020

HCDE PhD students Caitlin Lustig, Andrew Neang, Will Sutherland, Michael Beach, and Associate Professor Charlotte Lee are recognized with paper awards at the 23rd ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW).

Tue, 09/29/2020

HCDE welcomes its newest faculty member, Assistant Teaching Professor Sarah Coppola. Dr. Coppola came to HCDE from the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she was a Human Factors Engineering postdoctoral fellow. In this Q & A, Dr. Coppola talks more about her background and what she is looking forward to in her new role at the University of Washington.

Mon, 09/28/2020

HCDE Assistant Teaching Professor Kristin Dew is a co-Principal Investigator on a project to support a community-science network among residents of Seattle’s Lower Duwamish River area.

Tue, 09/15/2020

HCDE PhD candidate Rafal Kocielnik and incoming postdoctoral researcher Abigale Stangl have received Computing Innovation Fellowships from the Computing Research Association and its Computing Community Consortium. These fellowships were created with support from the National Science Foundation to connect recent (or soon-to-be) PhD graduates in computing disciplines with postdoctoral research positions at other academic institutions.

Tue, 09/15/2020 | UW News

Sat, 09/05/2020

Nadya Peek, assistant professor in HCDE, and her collaborator Jennifer Jacobs, assistant professor at UC Santa Barbara, have received a new grant from the National Science Foundation to research digital fabrication tools for low-volume manufacturing.

Fri, 08/28/2020

HCDE Research Scientist Sonia Savelli is the principal investigator on a new grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to study how people interpret and use evolving tornado forecast information and how forecast communication can be improved.

Tue, 08/25/2020

HCDE Professor Cecilia Aragon is co-principal investigator on AccessADVANCE, a new project awarded $1 million by the National Science Foundation to increase the participation and advancement of women with disabilities in academic science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers.

Tue, 08/25/2020

The HCDE Alumni Leadership Board welcomes nine new members: Daniel Aldridge, Ankur Agrawal, Josh Baker, R. Jill DeMarco, Alex Fromm, Sarah Kepa, Hannah Nursalim, Rigo Ordaz, and Veronika Sipeeva. The new members join inaugural Board members Sharla Akers (Board President), Gary J. Anderson, Kendall Avery, Michael Berg, Nathan Bilbao, Hasani C.M. Burns, Matthew Carthum, Paula Chuchro, and Matt Reynolds in service to the Department as they continue to plan events, continuing education opportunities, and publish observations from the field on the ALB Blog. Meet our new board members here.

Thu, 08/20/2020

HCDE Assistant Professor Nadya Peek has received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to research methods for testing and verification in distributed production. Support from the award enables Peek and students in her research lab, Machine Agency, to research what quality control could look like for production with widespread and distributed digital fabrication equipment. Peek asks, “If open source hardware designs can easily be widely shared, how do we ensure that they can also safely be widely produced?”

Thu, 08/20/2020 | Columbia University Press Blog

Dr. Zakiya Hanafi, an affiliate faculty member in HCDE, has spent the last decade of her career translating works of philosophy from Italian and French into English. In a new blog post on the Columbia University Press Blog, Dr. Hanafi shares the observations that inspired her to become a translator and discusses why translation is so important today.

Mon, 08/03/2020

The climate change impacts of drought, wildfire, and extreme flooding can destabilize the daily work of scientists. In Anticipating Future Environments, HCDE Research Scientist Shana Hirsch tells the story of how ecological restorationists working to recover salmon in the Columbia River Basin are adapting their scientific practices to deal with climate change.

Thu, 07/23/2020

Julie Kientz, Professor & Chair of HCDE, and her husband Professor Shwetak Patel are establishing an endowment to support HCDE students facing unexpected financial hardship.