DUB is our grassroots, cross-campus alliance of students, faculty, and industry partners interested in HCI & Design at the University of Washington. DUB Community Day is an annual event aimed at bringing us together to reflect on our community, welcome newcomers, share ideas, and socialize.
Please join us in-person for this event. We are planning hybrid broadcast of talks on Zoom, but community networking will be in-person.
For more information about this event, including information on how to RSVP and participate, be sure to join the DUB mailing list. Event organizers can also be contacted via email at <dub-community-day@spamdub.washington.edu>.
Additional agenda information will be provided here as it develops.
9:30am |
Arrival and Welcome |
10:00am |
State of DUB Celebration |
10:30am |
Paper SessionZhuohao (Jerry) Zhang, Ruiqi Chen, Mingyuan Zhang, Jacob O. Wobbrock. SlideAudit: A Dataset and Taxonomy for Automated Evaluation of Presentation Slides. UIST 2025. Zhihan Zhang, Puvarin Thavikulwat, Alexander Le Metzger, Yuxuan Mei, Felix Hähnlein, Zachary Englhardt, Gregory D. Abowd, Shwetak Patel, Adriana Schulz, Tingyu Cheng, Vikram Iyer. Living Sustainability: In-Context Interactive Environmental Impact Communication. IMWUT 2025. Donghoon Shin, Daniel Lee, Gary Hsieh, Gromit Yeuk-Yin Chan. PosterMate: Audience-Driven Collaborative Persona Agents for Poster Design. UIST 2025. Yue Fu, Yixin Chen, Zelia Gomes Da Costa Lai, Alexis Hiniker. Should ChatGPT Write Your Breakup Text? Exploring the Role of AI in Relationship Dissolution. CSCW 2025. |
12:00am |
LunchProvided based on RSVP. |
12:30am |
Invited Keynote
Beyond Publications: Sustaining Societal Impact in HCI Research
Speaker
Nicola Dell
Cornell Tech
Abstract
A growing amount of HCI research seeks to engage with complex societal problems, often with the goal of building tools or interventions that help people attain better or more equitable futures. However, effectively balancing the academic goals of the research with the desire to achieve and sustain positive societal impact requires HCI researchers to navigate a host of challenges: how to balance diverse priorities around handling data and publications, long-term system maintenance, sustained human capacity, viable funding streams, and more. In this talk, I discuss a range of models I have used to blend academic research with (short- and long-term) societal impact, drawing on examples from my community-engaged HCI research in healthcare and gender-based violence.
Bio
Nicki Dell is an Associate Professor at Cornell Tech and proud DUB alum. Her research focuses on understanding how computing technologies can facilitate harm or inequity and building systems, frameworks, and interventions that make our technology-mediated world safer and more equitable for everyone. Her work has been recognized via a MacArthur Fellowship (2024), SIGCHI Societal Impact Award (2023), Advocate of New York City Award (2019), and NSF CAREER Award (2018). At Cornell Tech, Nicki co-founded and co-directs the Clinic to End Tech Abuse. She also co-leads Cornell's Initiative on Home Care Work and was the 2023 Siegel Faculty Impact Fellow in the Public Interest Technology Initiative.
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2:00pm |
Paper SessionHyeyoung Ryu, Jaewon Kim, Sungha Kang, Wanda Pratt. Improving Online Communities for Stigmatized Healthcare: Countering In-Group Microaggressions and Fostering Supportive Connections. CSCW 2025. Melanie Kneitmix, Jacob O. Wobbrock. From Screen Reading to "Scene Reading" in SceneVR: Touch-Based Interaction Techniques for Use in Virtual Reality by Blind and Low-Vision Users. ASSETS 2025. Sen Zhang, Yuxuan Miao, Jazlin Taylor, Yiyue Luo. MagTex: Machine-Knitted Magnetoactive Textiles for Bidirectional Human-Machine Interface. UIST 2025. Joshua Horowitz, Devamardeep Hayatpur, Haijun Xia, Jeffrey Heer. Sculpin: Direct-Manipulation Transformation of JSON. UIST 2025. |
3:00pm |
Community Thanks |
3:15pm |
Community-Organized Social Activities |