Dub welcomes Andy Ko to UW faculty

Andrew J. Ko (Information School, CSE adjunct) employs a mixture of social science methodology and technical prowess in the study and support of programmers as information workers in need of better tools, particularly for answering "why" questions. He received a Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University in 2008.

Lisa Nathan wins 2nd place in the graduate student research competition at CHI 2008

Lisa Nathan, a doctoral student in the Information School and dub, won 2nd place in the graduate student research competition at CHI 2008 for her dissertation work on human values, information technology and adaptation in 21st century America

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Laying the Foundations for Public Participation and Value Advocacy: Interaction Design for a Large Scale Urban Simulation Batya Friedman, Alan Borning, Janet Davis, Brian Gill, Peter H. Kahn, Travis Kriplean and Peyina Lin

Activity Sensing in the Wild: A Field Trial of UbiFit Garden Sunny Consolvo, David W. McDonald, Tammy Toscos, Mike Chen, Jon E. Froehlich, Beverly Harrison, Pedrag Klasnja, Anthony LaMarca, Louis LeGrand, Ryan Libby, Ian Smith and James A. Landay   Related project:  UbiFit

Activity-Based Prototyping of Ubicomp Applications for Long-Lived, Everyday Human Activities Yang Li and James A. Landay    Best Paper Nominee

An Error Model for Pointing Based on Fitts' Law Jacob O. Wobbrock, Ed Cutrell, Susumu Harada and I. Scott MacKenzie    Best Paper Winner

CoSearch: A System for Co-located Collaborative Web Search Saleema Amershi and Merrie Morris   Downloads:  [Video]

CueFlik: Interactive Concept Learning in Image Search James Fogarty, Desney Tan, Ashish Kapoor and Simon Winder

Demonstrating the Feasibility of Using Forearm Electromyography for Muscle-Computer Interfaces T. Scott Saponas, Desney Tan, Dan Morris and Ravin Balakrishnan   Related project:  Muscle-Computer Interfaces

Employing Patterns and Layers for Early-Stage Design and Prototyping of Cross-Device User Interfaces James Lin and James A. Landay

Evaluating Visual Cues for Window Switching on Large Screens Raphael Hoffmann, Patrick Baudisch and Daniel S. Weld

Feasibility and Pragmatics of Classifying Working Memory Load with an Electroencephalograph David Grimes, Desney Tan, Scott Hudson, Pradeep Shenoy and Rajesh Rao    Best Paper Nominee

Human-Aided Computing: Utilizing Implicit Human Processing to Classify Images Pradeep Shenoy and Desney Tan

Improving the Performance of Motor-Impaired Users with Automatically-Generated, Ability-Based Interfaces Krzysztof Z Gajos, Jacob O. Wobbrock and Daniel S. Weld    Best Paper Winner   Related project:  SUPPLE

Investigating Statistical Machine Learning as a Tool for Software Development Kayur Patel, James Fogarty, James A. Landay and Beverly Harrison

K-Sketch: A "Kinetic" Sketch Pad for Novice Animators Richard C. Davis, Brien Colwell and James A. Landay

Large Scale Analysis of Web Revisitation Patterns Eytan Adar, Jaime Teevan and Susan Dumais    Best Paper Winner

MySong: Automatic Accompaniment Generation for Vocal Melodies Ian Simon, Dan Morris and Sumit Basu

e-IMCI: Improving Pediatric Health Care in Low-Income Countries Brian DeRenzi, Neal Lesh, Tapan Parikh, Clayton Sims, Marc Mitchell, Werner Maokola, Mwajuma Chemba, Yuna Hamisi, David Schellenberg and Gaetano Borriello

Access Control by Testing for Shared Knowledge Michael Toomim, Xianhang Zhang, James Fogarty and James A. Landay   Related project:  Shared Knowledge Access Control

Predictability and Accuracy in Adaptive User Interfaces Krzysztof Z Gajos, Katherine Everitt, Desney Tan, Mary Czerwinski and Daniel S. Weld

The Personal Project Planner: Planning to Organize Personal Information William Jones, Pedrag Klasnja, Andrea Civan and Michael Adcock

Beyond the Hype: Sustainability & HCI Lisa Nathan, Eli Blevis, Batya Friedman, Jay Hasbrouck and Phoebe Sengers

A Framework for Understanding Mobile Internet Motivations and Behaviors Carol A Taylor and Judith Ramey

Ecovillages, Values, and Information Technology: Balancing Sustainability with Daily Life in 21st Century America Lisa Nathan

Intentional Unusabilty: Supporting deniability through unorthodox design Xianhang Zhang

CoSearch: Leveraging Multiple Devices to Enhance Collaboration in Resource-Constrained Environments Saleema Amershi and Merrie Morris

Shared Sensemaking: Enhancing the Value of Collaborative Web Search Tools Merrie Morris and Saleema Amershi

Wikipedian Self-governance in Action: Motivating the Policy Lens Ivan Beschastnikh, Travis Kriplean and David W. McDonald    Best Paper Award

ASL-STEM Forum: A Bottom-Up Approach to Enabling American Sign Language to Grow in STEM Fields Jeffrey P. Bigham, Daniel Otero, Jessica N. DeWitt, Anna C. Cavender and Richard E. Ladner   Related project:  DHH Cyber Community

Theories and practice of design for interactive systems: Eight design perspectives in ten short weeks David G Hendry and Batya Friedman

Recovering from Errors during Programming by Demonstration Jiun-Hung Chen and Daniel S. Weld

Transcendence: Enabling a Personal View of the Deep Web Jeffrey P. Bigham, Anna C. Cavender, Ryan S. Kaminsky, Craig M. Prince and Tyler S. Robinson

TrueKeys: Identifying and correcting typing errors for people with motor impairments Shaun K. Kane, Jacob O. Wobbrock, Mark Harniss and Kurt L. Johnson

Cascaded Treemaps: Examining the Visibility and Stability of Structure in Treemaps Hao Lü and James Fogarty

Disambiguating Speech Commands using Physical Context Katherine Everitt, Susumu Harada, Jeff Bilmes and James A. Landay

VoicePen: Augmenting Pen Input with Simultaneous Non-Linguistic Vocalization Susumu Harada, T. Scott Saponas and James A. Landay   Related project:  VoicePen

Community, Consensus, Coercion, Control: CS*W or How Policy Mediates Mass Participation Travis Kriplean, Ivan Beschastnikh, David W. McDonald and Scott A. Golder

Value tensions in design: The value sensitive design, development, and appropriation of a corporation's groupware system Jessica Miller, Batya Friedman, Gavin Jancke and Brian Gill

A comparison of area pointing and goal crossing for people with and without motor impairments Jacob O. Wobbrock and Krzysztof Z Gajos

Automated tactile graphics translation: in the field Chandrika Jayant, Matt Renzelmann, Dana Wen, Satria Krisnandi, Richard Ladner and Dan Comden

Barrier Pointing: Using Physical Edges to Assist Target Acquisition on Mobile Device Touch Screens Jon E. Froehlich, Jacob O. Wobbrock and Shaun K. Kane

Variable Frame Rate for Low Power Mobile Sign Language Communication Neva Cherniavsky, Anna C. Cavender, Richard E. Ladner and Eve A. Riskin   Related project:  MobileASL

VoiceDraw: Hands-Free Voice-Driven Drawing Program for People With Motor Impairments Susumu Harada, Jacob O. Wobbrock and James A. Landay   Related project:  VoiceDraw

WebinSitu: A Comparative Analysis of Blind and Sighted Browsing Behavior Jeffrey P. Bigham, Anna C. Cavender, Jeremy T. Brudvik, Jacob O. Wobbrock and Richard Ladner

Using Networked Multimedia to Improve Educational Access for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students Anna C. Cavender   Related project:  DHH Cyber Community

Assieme: Finding and Leveraging Implicit References in a Web Search Interface for Programmers Raphael Hoffmann, James Fogarty and Daniel S. Weld

Automatically Generating User Interfaces Adapted To User's Motor And Vision Capabilities Krzysztof Z Gajos, Jacob O. Wobbrock and Daniel S. Weld   Related project:  SUPPLE

Gestures without libraries, toolkits or training: A $1 recognizer for user interface prototypes Jacob O. Wobbrock, Andrew D. Wilson and Yang Li

Relations, Cards, and Search Templates: User-Guided Data Integration and Layout Mira Dontcheva, Steven M. Drucker, David Salesin and Michael Cohen

SketchWizard: Wizard of Oz Prototyping of Pen-Based User Interfaces Richard C. Davis, T. Scott Saponas, Michael Shilman and James A. Landay

Physical Access Control for Captured RFID Data Travis Kriplean, Evan Welbourne, Nodira Khoussainova, Vibhor Rastogi, Magdalena Balazinska, Gaetano Borriello and Tadayoshi Kohno

Devices That Tell On You: Privacy Trends in Consumer Ubiquitous Computing T. Scott Saponas, Jonathan Lester, Carl Hartung, Sameer Agarwal and Tadayoshi Kohno   Downloads:  [Video]

Mobile Social Software for the Developing World Beth Kolko, Erica Johnson and Emma J. Rose

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