The latest news from Human Centered Design & Engineering faculty, PhD students, and research scientists.

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.