Announcing the new Masters HCI+D program

The dub sponsored Masters in Human-Computer Interaction and Design has arrived! Apply now and join the elite entering class in Autumn 2013. This unique interdisciplinary program was designed by the dub faculty and will be taught by dub faculty.

In this year-long, project-based curriculum students learn the latest tools and techniques in user experience and interface design, prototyping, and evaluation. Courses consist of both hands-on studios and cutting-edge lecture courses. The combination of theory and practice, with emphasis on making and doing, provides a dynamic, active and robust learning experience.

UW President Attends dub Retreat, Notes Importance

Over 100 UW faculty, students, and industrial collaborators came out for the 4th annual dub retreat at the Waterfront Activities Center (WAC) today. The meeting included a celebration of awards, short research talks, and poster sessions. The excitement of the event was bolstered by the attendance of UW President Michael Young. President Young saw talks on topics that included the relevance of dub to Microsoft Research collaborations, the collaborative design with Boeing of concepts for the future flight deck, and World Lab, a new joint institute with Tsinghua University in China to apply human-centered technologies to solving worldwide problems in the areas of environment, health, and education. President Young's extensive remarks concluded “This is something that is really important to the university.”

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Featured at ICWSM 2013 Boston, MA, USA
Full Paper

      Encouraging Reading of Diverse Political Viewpoints with a Browser Widget
Sean A. Munson, Stephanie Y Lee and Paul Resnick
 
Featured at CHI 2013 Paris, France
Full Paper

    A Trace-based Framework for Analyzing and Synthesizing Educational Progressions
Erik Andersen, Sumit Gulwani and Zoran Popović
 

      A Multi-Site Field Study of Crowdsourced Contextual Help: Usage and Perspectives of End-Users and Software Teams
Parmit K. Chilana, Andrew J. Ko and Jacob O. Wobbrock
 

      A Value Sensitive Action-Reflection Model: Evolving a Co-Design Space with Stakeholder and Designer Prompts
Daisy Yoo, Alina Huldtgren, Jill Palzkill Woelfer, David G Hendry and Batya Friedman
  Project:  Value Sensitive Design
 

    Cascade: Crowdsourcing Taxonomy Creation
Lydia Chilton, Greg Little, Darren Edge, Daniel S. Weld and James A. Landay
 

    Gesture Studio: Authoring Multi-Touch Interactions through Demonstration and Declaration
Hao Lü and Yang Li
 

      Health Vlogger-Viewer Interaction in Chronic Illness Management
Leslie S. Liu, Jina Huh, Tina Neogi, Kori Inkpen and Wanda Pratt
   Best Paper Nominee
 

      Mastering the Art of War: How Patterns of Gameplay Influence Skill in Halo
Jeff Huang, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Charles Harrison and Bruce Phillips
   Best Paper Nominee
 

      Q-Methodology as a Research and Design Tool for HCI
Katie O'Leary, Jacob O. Wobbrock and Eve A. Riskin
 
CHI Note

    DesignLibs: A Scenario-Based Design Method for Ideation
Jared S Bauer and Julie A. Kientz
 
Work in Progress

    Leveraging Visual Feedback from Social Signal Processing to Enhance Clinicians Nonverbal Skills
Rupa Patel, Andrea Civan-Hartzler, Mary Czerwinski, Wanda Pratt, Anthony L Back and Asta Roseway
 
Workshop

    Patient-Clinician Communication: The Roadmap for HCI
Rupa Patel, Lauren Wilcox, Anthony L Back, Mary Czerwinski, Wanda Pratt, Eric Horvitz and Paul Gorman
 
Workshop Paper

    Examining Obstacles to Sharing Fine-Grained Personal Activity Data
Daniel A. Epstein and James Fogarty
 

      The Need for More Research on Mobile Technologies for People with Low-Vision
Shiri Azenkot, Kyle K. Rector, Richard E. Ladner and Jacob O. Wobbrock
  Project:  MobileAccessibility
 

      Vulnerable or susceptible? Designing for and with homeless young people
Jill Palzkill Woelfer
 
Featured at Pervasive Health 2013 Venice, Italy
Full Paper

    Visual Feedback on Nonverbal Communication: A Design Exploration with Healthcare Professionals
Rupa Patel, Mary Czerwinski, Andrea Civan-Hartzler, Wanda Pratt, Anthony L Back and Asta Roseway
 
Featured at CSCW 2013 San Antonio, TX, USA
Full Paper

      Beyond Trust and Reliability: Reusing Data in Collaborative Cancer Epidemiology Research
Betsy Rolland and Charlotte P. Lee
 

      Meanings and Boundaries of Scientific Software Sharing
Xing Huang, Xianghua Ding, Charlotte P. Lee, Tun Lu and Ning Gu
 

      Opportunities via Extended Networks for Teens' Informal Learning
Peyina Lin and Shelly D. Farnham
 

      Recalibrating the Ratio: Enacting Accountability in Intimate Relationships Using Shared Calendars
Alex Thayer, Behzod Sirjani and Charlotte P. Lee
 

      Statistical Affect Detection in Collaborative Chat
Michael Brooks, Katie Kuksenok, Megan K. Torkildson, Daniel Perry, John J. Robinson, Taylor Jackson Scott, Ona Anicello, Ariana Zukowski, Paul Harris and Cecilia R. Aragon
 

      The Work of Sustaining Cyberinfrastructure Middleware Projects
Matthew J. Bietz, Drew Paine and Charlotte P. Lee
 
Featured at Tech Report 2013
Technical Report

      Coding manual for barriers and solutions to employment for homeless young people
Jill Palzkill Woelfer, Thuy T. Duong and David G Hendry
 

      Coding manual for “What will it take to end homelessness?
Jill Palzkill Woelfer and David G Hendry
 
Featured at AMIA 2012 Chicago, IL, USA
AMIA full paper

    Probing the Benefits of Real-time Tracking during Cancer Care
Rupa Patel, Predrag Klasnja, Andrea Civan-Hartzler, Kenton Unruh and Wanda Pratt
   Best Student Paper Finalist
 
Featured at ASSETS 2012 Boulder, Colorado, USA
Full Paper

      PassChords: Secure multi-touch authentication for blind people
Shiri Azenkot, Kyle K. Rector, Richard E. Ladner and Jacob O. Wobbrock
   Best Paper Award
 
Featured at ICMI 2012 Santa Monica, California, USA
Full Paper

      Gestures as point clouds: A $P recognizer for user interface prototypes
Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Lisa Anthony and Jacob O. Wobbrock
   Outstanding Paper Award
 
Featured at UIST 2012
Full Paper

      RevMiner: An Extractive Interface for Navigating Reviews on a Smartphone
Jeff Huang, Oren Etzioni, Luke Zettlemoyer, Kevin Clark and Christian Lee
 
Featured at ISMIR 2012 Porto, Portugal
Paper (oral presentation)

      The role of music in the lives of homeless young people: A preliminary report
Jill Palzkill Woelfer and Jin Ha Lee
 
Featured at UbiComp 2012 Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Full Paper

      Investigating Receptiveness to Sensing and Inference in the Home Using Sensor Proxies
Eun Kyoung Choe, Sunny Consolvo, Jaeyeon Jung, Beverly Harrison, Shwetak N. Patel and Julie A. Kientz
   Best Paper Nominee
  Project:  Sensing & Inference in the Home
 

      Lullaby: A Capture & Access System for Understanding the Sleep Environment
Matthew Kay, Eun Kyoung Choe, Jesse Shepherd, Ben Greenstein, Sunny Consolvo, Nathaniel F. Watson and Julie A. Kientz
   Best Paper Award
  Project:  Lullaby
 
Featured at MobileHCI 2012 San Francisco, CA, USA
Full Paper

    MemReflex: Adaptive Flashcards for Mobile Microlearning
Darren Edge, Stephen Fitchett, Michael Whitney and James A. Landay
   Best Paper Award
  Project:  Mobile Language Learning
 
Featured at CHI 2012 Austin, TX, USA
Full Paper

      A General-Purpose Target-Aware Pointing Technique
Morgan Dixon, James Fogarty and Jacob O. Wobbrock
  Project:  Accessible Goal Crossing Project, Prefab
 

    Homeless young people on social network sites
Jill Palzkill Woelfer and David G Hendry
 

    Humantenna: Using the Body as an Antenna for Real-Time Whole-Body Interaction
Gabe Cohn, Dan Morris, Shwetak N. Patel and Desney Tan
   Best Paper Nominee
 

      Is This What You Meant? Promoting Listening on the Web with Reflect
Travis Kriplean, Michael Toomim, Jonathan T. Morgan, Alan Borning and Andrew J. Ko
  Project:  Engage
 

      LemonAid: Selection-Based Crowdsourced Contextual Help for Web Applications
Parmit K. Chilana, Andrew J. Ko and Jacob O. Wobbrock
 

      Next Steps for Value Sensitive Design
Alan Borning and Michael Muller
   Best Paper Nominee
  Project:  Value Sensitive Design
 

    ShutEye: Encouraging Awareness of Healthy Sleep Recommendations with a Mobile, Peripheral Display
Jared S Bauer, Sunny Consolvo, Ben Greenstein, Jonathan O. Schooler, Eric Wu, Nathaniel F. Watson and Julie A. Kientz
  Project:  ShutEye
 

      Taming Wild Behavior: The Input Observer for Obtaining Text Entry and Mouse Pointing Measures from Everyday Computer Use
Abigail C Evans and Jacob O. Wobbrock
 

    The Design and Evaluation of Prototype Eco-Feedback Displays for Fixture-Level Water Usage Data
Jon E. Froehlich, Leah Findlater, Marilyn Ostergren, Solai Ramanathan, Josh Peterson, Inness Wragg, Fabia Fu, Mazhengmin Bai, Shwetak N. Patel and James A. Landay
   Best Paper Nominee
 

    The Impact of Tutorials on Games of Varying Complexity
Erik Andersen, Eleanor O'Rourke, Yun-En Liu, Richard Snider, Jeff Lowdermilk, David Truong, Seth Cooper and Zoran Popović
   Best Paper Nominee
 

    User See, User Point: Gaze and Cursor Alignment in Web Search
Jeff Huang, Ryen White and Georg Buscher
 

    WalkType: Using Accelerometer Data to Accomodate Situational Impairments in Mobile Touch Screen Text Entry
Mayank Goel, Leah Findlater and Jacob O. Wobbrock
   Best Paper Nominee
 
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    Mining Whining in Support Forums with Frictionary
Andrew J. Ko
 

      Representing Our Information Structures for Research and for Everyday Use
William Jones, Kenneth M. Anderson and Steve Whittaker
 
CHI Note

    SoundWave: Using the Doppler Effect to Sense Gestures
Sidhant Gupta, Dan Morris, Shwetak N. Patel and Desney Tan
  Project:  SoundWave
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    Tackling Dilemmas in Supporting ‘The Whole Person’ in Online Patient Communities
Jina Huh, Rupa Patel and Wanda Pratt
 
Doctoral Symposium

    The role of music in the lives of homeless young people in Seattle, WA and Vancouver, BC
Jill Palzkill Woelfer
 
Featured at GI 2012 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Paper

    Input Finger Detection for nonvisual touch screen text entry in Perkinput
Shiri Azenkot, Jacob O. Wobbrock, Sanjana Prasain and Richard E. Ladner
 

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