DUB Seminar

The weekly DUB seminar is the primary gathering point for the DUB community. The seminar features talks from diverse leading perspectives in Human Computer Interaction & Design, presented by members of the DUB community and by visiting researchers and practitioners. All members of the DUB community are welcome and encouraged to attend the weekly DUB seminar.

If you are interested in hosting a DUB speaker, or are yourself interested in speaking in the DUB seminar, contact the DUB Seminar Coordinators via email at speak [at] dub [dot] washington [dot] edu.
If you are interested in presenting a paper in our DUB Shorts format, submit our form:

https://tiny.cc/uwdubshorts

Seminars begin with some time for socializing, and then transition to the talk. Seminars during the academic year often attract 100 to 120 people, with seminars during the summer more often attracting 60 to 80 people. The seminar can also be taken for credit in various programs.

Seminar announcements are distributed on the DUB mailing lists.

With speaker permission, videos are posted in Previous Seminars and the DUB Vimeo channel.

The DUB seminar schedule is coordinated through grassroots identification of compelling speakers. This generally leverages a potential speaker’s existing plans for visiting the University of Washington community, but very limited support is available in situations where costs would be a barrier to a potential speaker.

Upcoming DUB Seminars

04/21/21

12:00 PM

Assistive Smartwatches to Support Self-Regulation for Neurodiverse Adults

Vivian Motti

George Mason University

04/28/21

12:00 PM

DUB Seminar

Gabriela Marcu

University of Michigan

05/05/21

12:00 PM

Prototype Nation: China & the Contested Promise of Innovation

Silvia Lindtner

University of Michigan

05/12/21

No DUB Seminar - CHI 2021

05/19/21

12:00 PM

DUB Seminar

Sucheta Ghoshal

Human Centered Design & Engineering

05/26/21

12:00 PM

DUB Seminar

Karla Badillo-Urquiola

University of Central Florida

06/02/21

12:00 PM

DUB Small Group Mixers

06/09/21

No DUB Seminar - Quarter Break

06/16/21

No DUB Seminar - Quarter Break

Previous DUB Seminars

04/14/21

Portable Laser Cutting

Thijs Roumen

Hasso Plattner Institute

04/07/21

Brain-Robot Interaction & Applying Block-Based Programming to Neurofeedback Application Development

Chris Crawford

University of Alabama

03/03/21

Building Chairables: Designing for Accessible User Experiences

Patrick Carrington

Carnegie Mellon University

02/24/21

Designing for Voice: Access, Autonomy, and Justification Questions in Designing Computing Technologies with Marginalized Communities

Ishtiaque Ahmed

University of Toronto

02/17/21

What Can A Body Do? How We Meet the Built World

Sara Hendren

Olin College

02/10/21

Contextually Recommending Expert Demonstrations to Improve Creativity

Ailie Fraser

Adobe Research

02/03/21

Interpersonal Health Informatics: The Characteristics of Social Personal Informatics

Herman Saksono

Harvard University

01/27/21

Learning from the People: From Normative to Descriptive Solutions to Aligning Technology with Human Values

Elissa M. Redmiles

Max Planck Institute for Software Systems

01/20/21

Safeguarding Private Visual Information Towards Advancing Technologies that Provide Visual Assistance

Abigale Stangl

Human Centered Design & Engineering

01/13/21

Designing to Empower Marginalized Communities through Social Technology

Alexandra To

Northeastern University

12/02/20

Designing Tools for Remote Communication in Programming

Steve Oney

University of Michigan

11/25/20

Enabling Interaction on Everyday Surfaces

Robert Xiao

University of British Columbia

11/18/20

The Hybrid Hand - Leveraging Sensor-Based Approaches for Understanding and Supporting Tacit Skills

César Torres

University of Texas at Arlington

11/04/20

Design as a Mode and Product of Inquiry

James Pierce

Art + Art History + Design

10/28/20

Community-Based Approaches to Reconsidering Design for Marginalized Populations

Christina N. Harrington

DePaul University

10/14/20

On Bread and Roses

Neha Kumar

Georgia Tech

10/07/20

Understanding and Countering Problematic Information on Social Media Platforms

Tanu Mitra

Information School

08/19/20

MHCI+D Capstone Presentations

08/05/20

Recognize Exclusion, Design for Inclusion

Bryce Johnson

Microsoft

07/29/20

Tales and Tools of a UX Designer in East Africa

Cara Lynn Kleid

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

07/22/20

Facing Disinformation to Save Democracy

Claudia Flores-Saviaga

West Virginia University

07/15/20

Critical Race Theory for HCI

Alexandra To

Carnegie Mellon University

Angela D. R. Smith

Northwestern University

Ihudiya Finda Ogbonnaya-Ogburu

University of Michigan

07/08/20

DUB Shorts

Saba Kawas

Information School

Devansh Saxena

Marquette University

07/01/20

DUB Shorts

Tal M August

Computer Science & Engineering

Erin Beneteau

Information School

05/27/20

DUB Shorts

Calvin Liang

Human Centered Design & Engineering

Kai Lukoff

Human Centered Design & Engineering

05/20/20

DUB Shorts

Ulrik Lyngs

University of Oxford

Miranda Wei

Computer Science & Engineering

05/13/20

DUB Shorts

Naveena Karusala

Computer Science & Engineering

Sam Kolovson

Human Centered Design & Engineering

05/06/20

DUB Shorts

Daniel Epstein

University of California, Irvine

Jane Hoffswell

Computer Science & Engineering

04/29/20

DUB Shorts

Christine Geeng

Computer Science & Engineering

Momona Yamagami

Electrical Engineering

04/22/20

Working from Home? Lessons Learnt from HCI Research at UCL

Duncan Brumby

University College London

04/15/20

DUB Shorts

Wendy Roldan

Human Centered Design & Engineering

Amanda Swearngin

Computer Science & Engineering

04/08/20

A Few Reflections on Computing Research During this Time of Crisis

Brent Hecht

Microsoft / Northwestern University

03/04/20

Culturally Disruptive Design

Breanne Litts

Utah State University

02/26/20

Robot Design for Everyone -- Computational Tools that Democratize the Design of Robots

Ruta Desai

Facebook Reality Labs

02/19/20

Building Inclusive Online Programming Communities

Denae Ford Robinson

Microsoft Research

02/12/20

Perpetually Enhancing and Personalizing Technology for Learning & Health Behavior Change: Using Randomized A/B Experiments to integrate Psychology, Crowdsourcing & Statistical Machine Learning

Joseph Jay Williams

University of Toronto

02/05/20

Accessible Voice Interfaces for Social Well-Being

Robin Brewer

University of Michigan

01/22/20

Fabrication via Mobile Robotics and Digital Manufacturing

Jeffrey Lipton

Mechanical Engineering

12/04/19

Data Science for Human Well-being

Tim Althoff

Computer Science & Engineering

11/27/19

Designing an ecosystem for governing AI in Wikipedia

Aaron Halfaker

Wikimedia Foundation

11/20/19

Beyond "One-Size-Fits-All": Designing for User Diversity in Software Learning and Help-Seeking

Parmit Chilana

Simon Fraser University

11/13/19

Investigating Tasks and Taskers with Studies of Searching Online and in the Wild

Chirag Shah

Information School

10/30/19

Visually Encoding Personal Data for Vulnerable Populations

Jaime Snyder

Information School

10/23/19

AI & Accessibility: Ethical Considerations

Meredith Ringel Morris

Microsoft Research

10/16/19

The Stark Future of Trust Online

Mor Naaman

Cornell Tech

10/09/19

Shaping Science: How organizations matter on NASA’s teams

Janet Vertesi

Princeton University

10/02/19

AI Tools for Creative Work

Lydia Chilton

Columbia University

08/21/19

MHCI+D Capstone Presentations

08/14/19

Smart toys and parenting with Alexa: how to promote mental health with digital technologies?

Petr Slovak

King's College London

08/07/19

Reinventing the Office Experience with AI

Sumit Chauhan

Microsoft

07/31/19

Expressive Biosignals: Lightweight Social Cues for Social Connection

Fannie Liu

Carnegie Mellon University

Andrés Monroy-Hernández

Snap

07/24/19

Finding Your Power: Big Tech, the Climate Crisis, and How You Can Organize for Change

Rebecca Deutsch

350 Seattle

07/17/19

Wide-Area Sensors for Sparse Ubiquitous Sensing

Yang Zhang

Carnegie Mellon University

07/03/19

Human-AI Systems for Visual Information Access

Anhong Guo

Carnegie Mellon University

06/05/19

Designing for Personalized Tracking Experience

Eun Kyoung Choe

University of Maryland

05/22/19

Prototyping Mixed Reality Experiences

Michael Nebeling

University of Michigan

05/15/19

Dancing with Robots: Designing Expression in Natural and Artificial Systems

Amy LaViers

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

05/01/19

Accessibility as a Grand Challenge for AI

Jeffrey Bigham

Carnegie Mellon University

04/24/19

Wearable Interactions Using Touch without a Touchscreen

Xing-Dong Yang

Dartmouth

04/17/19

Beyond Fairness: Discourse, Violence, and Justice in a Datafied World

Anna Lauren Hoffmann

Information School

04/10/19

Paper, Pencil, Smartphone, App: Optimizing Data Quality and Participant Retention in Hands-on Citizen Science

Julia K. Parrish

College of the Environment

03/13/19

Video Games Have Always Been Queer

Bonnie Ruberg

University of California, Irvine

03/06/19

Input and Interaction on HoloLens 2

Julia Schwarz

Microsoft

02/27/19

Solving Photo Mysteries with Expert-Led Crowdsourcing

Kurt Luther

Virginia Tech

02/20/19

The Future of Collective Action Systems

Saiph Savage

West Virginia University

02/06/19

Marrying Humanities with the Empirical to Learn from and Design for Subcultures

Norman Makoto Su

Indiana University

01/23/19

Designing Technologies to Make Virtual Reality Accessible for People with Low Vision

Yuhang Zhao

Cornell Tech

01/16/19

Learning Programming at Scale: Code, Data, and Environment

Philip Guo

University of California, San Diego

12/05/18

Crowds, Computation, and the Future of Work

Michael Bernstein

Stanford University

11/28/18

Mobile, Social, and Fashion: Three Stories from Data-Driven Design

Ranjitha Kumar

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

11/14/18

Rethinking HCI with Neural Interfaces

Andrew Mao

CTRL-Labs

11/07/18

Answering Ad Hoc Causal Questions in Web Search

Emre Kiciman

Microsoft Research

10/31/18

Infrastructural Inaccessibility: Tech Entrepreneurs in Occupied Palestine

Pernille Bjørn

University of Copenhagen

10/10/18

Building a Better Snow Globe: Recent Work from the HP Immersive Experiences Lab

Alex Thayer

10/03/18

Contextual Intelligence

Paul Bennett

Microsoft Research

08/15/18

MHCI+D Capstone Presentations

08/08/18

Towards Human Behavior Modeling from Mobile Data

Nuria Oliver

Vodafone Research & Data-Pop Alliance

08/01/18

Designing for Accessible Mental Health in Cheeseburger Therapy

Morgan Dixon

Cheeseburger Therapy

07/25/18

Real Change Mobile Apps Project

Jill Woelfer

Google

07/11/18

Understanding the Workplace Experience Through Sensor Tracking of Behavior

Gloria Mark

University of California, Irvine

06/27/18

Building Studio Culture through Critique

Michael Smith

Art + Art History + Design

05/30/18

Behavior-Driven Optimizations for Big Data Exploration

Leilani Battle

Computer Science & Engineering

05/23/18

Machine Agency: Making Machines that Make

Nadya Peek

Human Centered Design & Engineering

05/16/18

How We Built an Organizational and Research Culture Grounded in HCD

Lisa Castaneda, Tom Swanson

Foundry 10

05/09/18

Designing Robots for Fluent Collaboration and Companionship

Guy Hoffman

Cornell University

05/02/18

Rumors and Population Representations of Uncertainty

Peter Krafft

Information School

04/18/18

Microsoft Soundscape: Lessons Learned in Designing Accessible Technology and Bringing it to Market

Alex Fiannaca

Microsoft Research

04/11/18

From Personal Informatics to Personal Analytics: Data-Driven Solutions for Personal Health

Lena Mamykina

Columbia University

04/04/18

The Maker Toolkit: Breaking Down Barriers to Physical Computing

Josh Caldwell

Code.org

03/07/18

The Organizational Dynamics of Software Teams

Andrew Begel

Microsoft Research

02/28/18

If These Walls Could Talk...

Plamena Milusheva

LMN Tech Studio

02/21/18

Active Learning in the Engineering Classroom: A Practitioner's Reflection

Brock Craft

Human Centered Design & Engineering

02/14/18

Hybrid Spaces and Third Places for Scientizing with Mobile, Wearable, & Community Technologies

Tamara Clegg

University of Maryland

02/07/18

Performance-Based 2D Animation (or How to Get Live Cartoon Guests on The Late Show)

Wilmot Li

Adobe Research

01/31/18

Gender-Inclusive Software

Margaret Burnett

Oregon State University

01/24/18

User Frustration with “User Engagement”: Understanding Mindless and Intentional Technology Use

Alexis Hiniker

Information School

01/17/18

Interfaces to Text to Interfaces

Eytan Adar

University of Michigan

01/10/18

Fabricating Accessibility

Jennifer Mankoff

Computer Science & Engineering

12/06/17

From Independence to Interdependence: A Social Narrative of Assistive Technology

Stacy Branham

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

11/29/17

Microproductivity: Getting Big Things Done with Little Microtasks

Jaime Teevan

Microsoft Research

11/22/17

mHealth Teaming: Promoting Walking in People with Diabetes and Depression through Team-Based Peer Support

Andrea L. Hartzler

Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education

11/15/17

Robots and the Dynamics of Emotions in Teams

Malte Jung

Cornell University

11/08/17

Advancing Collective Innovation

Steven Dow

University of California, San Diego

11/01/17

Design-In-Living: The Ongoing Making of the Spaces We Live In

Audrey Desjardins

Art + Art History + Design

10/25/17

Augmented Reality to Improve Real-World Accessibility

Leah Findlater

Human Centered Design & Engineering

10/11/17

Computational Ecosystems: Tech-Enabled Communities to Advance Human Values at Scale

Haoqi Zhang

Northwestern University

10/04/17

A Pedestrian-Centered Approach for Equitable Access to Urban Environments

Anat Caspi

Computer Science & Engineering

08/16/17

Design for Seven Billion; Design for One

Margaret Price

Microsoft

08/09/17

Re-Weaving Design Histories

Daniela Rosner

Human Centered Design & Engineering

08/02/17

Hiring Up? 13 Tips on Hiring Your Next Boss

Kevin Wick

Smashing Ideas

07/26/17

AI ♥ Design

Ruth Kikin-Gil

Microsoft

07/19/17

Studying How We Make Sense of Algorithms in News Feeds (and the Challenges Faced when Conducting such Studies)

Karrie Karahalios

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

07/12/17

Internet Rules! Law, Norms, and Ethics for Online Content Creation

Casey Fiesler

University of Colorado

07/05/17

Filling the Pipeline: Design & Engineering Workshops for K-12 Outreach

Andy Davidson

Human Centered Design & Engineering

06/28/17

How We Designed & Released a Scheduling Assistant with Human and Machine Intelligence

Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Justin Cranshaw

Microsoft Research

06/21/17

Beyond Deliverables: Success Strategies for a Career in UX

Chad Driesbach

UX Manager, Amazon Web Services

Kai-Ting Huang

Interaction Designer, Google

Diane Longmoor

Partner and Director of User Experience, Fell Swoop

Kevin Wick

Executive Creative Director, Smashing Ideas

05/31/17

Bricks, Walls, and Arches: In Pursuit of Deeper Human-Computer Symbioses

Eric Horvitz

Microsoft Research

05/24/17

Human Centered Design for Public Services

Melissa Braxton

18F

05/17/17

Bias and Uncertainty in Information Visualization

Michael Correll

Computer Science & Engineering

05/03/17

Ability-Based Design: Elevating Ability over Disability in Accessible Computing

Jacob O. Wobbrock

Information School

04/26/17

A Manifesto for Virtue Ethic and the IoT? Process, 'Practical reason', and Technology Design

Alison Powell

London School of Economics and Political Science

04/19/17

Crafting Computers, Crafting Cultures

Irene Posch

Vienna University of Technology

04/12/17

Community Wellness Informatics: Designing Technology for Health Equity

Andrea Grimes Parker

Northeastern University

04/05/17

Social Computing Participation Gaps as Pipelines: Who Is Missing from Your Community and Why That Matters

Aaron Shaw

Northwestern University

03/08/17

Real-time Ridesharing Challenges and Opportunities to address Issues of Unemployment among Low-Resourced Populations

Tawanna Dillahunt

University of Michigan

03/01/17

Learning from Consumer Products: Building Enterprise Products using Data Exhaust

Sam Ladner

Amazon

02/22/17

Personalized Behavior-Powered Systems

Jeff Huang

Brown University

02/15/17

Crowdbotics: Writing Software with Crowds

Anand Kulkarni

Crowdbotics

02/08/17

Enhancing the Throughput and Expressivity of Augmentative and Alternative Communication Technologies for People with ALS

Meredith Ringel Morris

Microsoft Research

02/01/17

Search is Not Yet a Solved Problem for Systems OR Searchers

Dan Russell

Google

01/25/17

Human Computer (Interaction) Integration

Umer Farooq

Facebook

Jonathan Grudin

Microsoft Research

01/18/17

Emotion Measurement in Natural Settings through Everyday Devices

Daniel McDuff

Microsoft Research

01/11/17

Accessibility Is Becoming Mainstream

Richard Ladner

Computer Science & Engineering

12/07/16

Community Cellular Networks

Kurtis Heimerl

Computer Science & Engineering

11/30/16

Exploring the Changing Use of Personal Email Accounts

Frank Bentley

Yahoo

11/23/16

Designing Increasingly Autonomous Vehicles to be Safer than Humans

Linda Boyle

Industrial & Systems Engineering / Civil & Environmental Engineering

11/16/16

Slow Interaction Design

Will Odom

Simon Fraser University

11/09/16

Data-Driven Storytelling: Transforming Data into Visually Shared Stories

Nathalie Riche

Microsoft Research

11/02/16

Conversational Programmers

Parmit Chilana

Simon Fraser University

10/26/16

Go Baby Go: Technology, Hacking, and Child/Family Experiences of Mobility

Heather Feldner

Mechanical Engineering

10/19/16

Augmented Reality for Space Exploration

Nat Guy

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

10/12/16

Unlocking Data, Unlocking Interaction

James Fogarty

Computer Science & Engineering

10/05/16

From Trace Data to Reflective Personal Informatics

Stephen Voida

University of Colorado Boulder

08/17/16

Money, Passwords, & Pictures: How People Share

Jofish Kaye

Yahoo

08/10/16

Project EMAR: Designing a Social Robot to Assess Teen Stress Using a Human-Centered Approach

Elin A. Björling, Emma J. Rose

UW Tacoma

08/03/16

Opportunities for Live Streams Coming from the Same Event

John Tang, Gina Venolia

Microsoft Research

07/27/16

Beyond Inclusion: Confronting Bias in Human Centered Design Before the Robots Take Over

Jason Pace

UW Bothell

07/20/16

The Future of Data Tracking. What We Should Do with All That Health and Wellness Data?

Kay Hofmeester

Microsoft Health

07/13/16

Addressing an Ignored User Group: People with Low Vision

Shiri Azenkot

Cornell Tech

07/06/16

Rocket Science

Rachelle Ornan-Stone

Boeing

06/29/16

Prototyping in Hardware Product Development

Kate Richmond, Bret Richmond

Synapse

06/22/16

Getting Started on Your Career Path as an HCI/UX Professional

Aaron Brako

Google

Jennifer Hopper

Filter Digital

Dave Miller

Artefact Group

Johnny Schroepfer

IA Collaborative

06/01/16

"Give me a <ka-CHUNK>": Rethinking the Interaction Paradigm of Audio Production Tools

Mark Cartwright

Northwestern University

05/25/16

The New Practice of Old Photography

David Ayman Shamma

05/18/16

Combining Ability and Context to Create More Accessible User Interfaces

Shaun Kane

University of Colorado

05/04/16

Printing Pictures in 3D

Tom Yeh

University of Colorado

04/27/16

Accessible Analytics

Ed Summers

SAS Institute

04/20/16

Accessibility Infrastructure and the Transition to Touchscreens: Evidence from Bangalore, India

Joyojeet Pal

University of Michigan

04/13/16

When Anyone Can Say Anything: Credibility, Censorship, and Moderation in Social Media

Eric Gilbert

Georgia Tech

04/06/16

Digital Equity and Meaningful Connectivity

Carmen Gonzalez

Communication

03/09/16

From Network Noise to Social Signals: Network-Sensing and Crowd-Sourcing for Behavioural Modelling

Afra Mashhadi

Bell Labs

03/02/16

Investigating Links between Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) Expertise and Cognitive Skills at a Gaming Tournament

Justin Bonny

foundry10

02/24/16

Crafting the Image in Surgical Telemedicine

Helena Mentis

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

02/17/16

Share the Hands - UnlimitedHand: Interactivity through Human Hand Somatics

Emi Tamaki

University of Tokyo

02/10/16

It's All a Design Problem: Startupland from the Inside Out

Beth Kolko

Human Centered Design & Engineering / Shift Labs

02/03/16

Closing the Language Gap Between People and Applications

Mira Dontcheva

Adobe Research

01/27/16

Reading Between the Lines: Improving Comprehension for Students

Mike Bennett, Kevin Larson

Microsoft

01/20/16

Intelligent Control of Crowdsourcing

Daniel S. Weld

Computer Science & Engineering

01/13/16

Taking VR Immersion to the Next Level with Large-Scale Haptic Effects

Lung-Pan Chen

Hasso Plattner Institute

12/09/15

Understanding and Supporting Communication Across Linguistic Boundaries

Sue Fussell

Cornell University

12/02/15

Building up STE(A)M: The UCD Charrette for K-12 Outreach

Andrew Davidson, Elena Agapie, Kiley Sobel

Human Centered Design & Engineering

Emma Rose

University of Washington, Tacoma

11/25/15

Using Large-Scale Online Experiments to Design less WEIRD User Interfaces

Katharina Reinecke

Computer Science & Engineering

11/18/15

67 Million Trials in 4 Weeks: How Online Video Games Can Change How We Think about Research, and How Research Can Change How We Design Video Games

Jeffrey Lin

Riot Games

11/04/15

Glass Fibers, Mental Models, Mobile Devices, and Electro Shocks

Christian Holz

Microsoft Research

10/28/15

Interactive and Interpretable Machine Learning Models for Human Machine Collaboration

Been Kim

Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence

10/21/15

From Paid to Organic Crowdsourcing

Krzysztof Gajos

Harvard University

10/14/15

Leveraging Signals Generated From Search Engines and Web-Based Resources

Adam Fourney

Microsoft Research

10/07/15

ChangeDyslexia: Early Detection and Intervention at Large Scale

Luz Rello

Carnegie Mellon University