Dub students win two assistive technology awards

Jeffrey P. Bigham (Computer Science) won the grand prize of the Imagine Cup's Interface Design Accessible Technology Award for his work on WebAnywhere, a web-based screen reader for the web.

Susumu Harada (Computer Science) won 2nd place in the NISH National Scholar Award for Workplace Innovation & Design for his work on VoiceDraw, a hands-free voice-based drawing program for people with motor impairments.

Dub welcomes Sarah Kriz to UW faculty

Sarah Kriz (Technical Communication) joins us from the Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence where she was a National Research Council Postdoctoral Associate. Her research focuses on human-robot interaction, cognitive design principles, experimental methods, and the interplay between cognitive and social influences. She received a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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 research competition at CHI 2008

MIT names 3 Dub researchers “ Young Innovators”

Tapan Parikh Tadayoshi Kohno Desney Tan

Graduate student Tapan Parikh additionally won Humanitarian of the Year for his mobile tools for developing economies. Professor Tadayoshi Kohno was honored for his work in cryptographic systems security. Microsoft Research Scientist and UW Affiliate Professor Desney Tan was recognized for his work in brain-computer interfaces. 35 scientists and technologists across disciplines in academia and industry received the award.

UW LUTE presented with Diana Award for Communication Design

Congratulations to the UW Laboratory for Usability Testing and Evaluation (the LUTE lab), which was recently presented with the Diana Award. The biannual ACM SIGDOC Diana Award is for long-term contribution to the field of communication design.

UW Welcomes New HCI Faculty

Jacob O. Wobbrock (Information School, CSE adjunct) focuses on making mobile devices more accessible with new user interface technologies. He also works on simplified gesture recognition, improving target acquisition for people with motor impairments, analyzing and predicting input errors, and quantifying situational impairments. He received a Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University in 2006.

James Fogarty (Computer Science) investigates solutions to the human obstacles surrounding widespread adoption of ubiquitous and intelligent computing technologies. He has recently tackled such topics as unobtrusive home activity recognition, privacy-sensitive location-based sensing, models of human interruptibility, and optimization-based display generation. He received his PhD in Human Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University in 2006.