Human Centered Design & Engineering
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Faculty and students in the University of Washington's department of Human Centered Design & Engineering advance the study and practice of design to improve cognition, behavior, engagement, or participation among individuals, groups, organizations, and communities of people.
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Learn more about the department at hcde.uw.edu.
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Recent Submissions
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You have 5 seconds: designing glanceable feedback for physical activity trackers
(ACM, 2015-09-07)People engage with activity trackers in short sessions: over 70% are defined by glances – brief, 5-second sessions where individuals check ongoing activity levels with no further interaction. We explore how to best leverage ... -
Measuring Distributed Mentoring in an Online Fanfiction Community
This dissertation approaches questions about how creators informally learn from their online networks using a human-centered data science perspective. Over the past few decades, participation in online communities has ... -
Transforming Queer Health Technologies Through Community-Based Systems Design
Technologists are often motivated to do good in the world, laying out grand visions for how to optimize systems, automate tedious tasks, and expand what is possible. However, these innovations can create or exacerbate ... -
Design and Implementation of Conversational User Interfaces for Health
Conversational user interfaces (CUIs) have the potential to support users across varied health domain areas. Yet barriers remain to the implementation and adoption of CUIs, such as lack of trustworthiness and consideration ... -
Designing Methods Towards Resilience: A Critical Reflection on Co-Designing Technology with Families During Early COVID-19
(2022-09-15)In the reactive environment of adjusting to remote learning and life during COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, families had few opportunities to collaborate, play, and imagine better futures. Using family resilience ... -
Designing to Support Sense of Agency for Time Spent on Digital Interfaces
App designers often exploit psychological vulnerabilities to maximize clicks, views, and time on site. When people attempt to resist such media use, their failure rate is higher than for any other temptation in everyday ... -
Personal Data and Team Dynamics: Tracking Technology in U.S. College Sports
My dissertation focuses on coordination around personal data and human-data interaction in a high-stakes, high-performance environment: college sports. In the last decade, wearable tracking technologies—e.g., FitBit, Garmin, ... -
Noticing and Enacting Equity Across Design Sites of Knowledge
Our commitments influence the narratives we center, the technologies we design, and the knowledge we create. Yet, little scholarship exists that documents the lived experience of enacting our commitments in practice. I ... -
Community Safety Together: How Reflection and Radical Imagination Can Help Us Build the Worlds We Need
In this dissertation, I explore human-centered design approaches to support community-driven projects that aim to reinforce self-determination and grow networks of support and care. The context in which I approach this ... -
Comparing Language Communities: Characterizing Collaboration in the English, French and Spanish Language Editions of Wikipedia
Is Wikipedia a standardized platform with a common model of collaboration or is it a set of 312 active language editions with distinct collaborative models? In the last 20 years, researchers have extensively analyzed the ... -
Understanding and Designing Health Technologies with Older Adults
The population of people 60 years and older has been rapidly rising and will continue to grow. This growth has prompted a turn toward innovations to support age-related decline. While these innovations are necessary, the ... -
Understanding the Structure and Dynamics of Multi-platform Information Operations
Information operations—efforts to distort the information ecosystem through methods such as the dissemination of disinformation in efforts to influence opinions or actions of individuals, governments or publics—are ... -
Designing Engaging Conversational Interactions for Health & Behavior Change
The recent popularity of chat and voice-based conversational interactions fueled by advances in natural language processing (NLP) has opened up opportunities for re-imagining user interactions in health & behavior change ... -
Troubling Matters: Examining the Spread of Misinformation and Disinformation on Social Media During Mass Disruption Events
Most users want Twitter feeds, Facebook pages, and other information streams to be free of misleading content. Whether this misleading content was spread unintentionally (misinformation) or on purpose (disinformation), ... -
Designing Guided Asynchronous Remote Communities to Support Teen Mental Health
The majority of teens experience challenges with stress and depression in the United States. However, they lack the resources to access traditional face-to-face mental health care and participate in Human Computer Interaction ... -
Practitioners’ Views on Cultural Adaptation of Web-based Products
Researchers have repeatedly found cross-cultural differences in how people behave, perceive, and interact with information. However, it is unclear how these findings translate into cultural adaptations in global products ... -
Understanding and Tooling Translational Research in Human-Computer Interaction
Successfully bridging research and practice in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) can lead to better products and services that benefit society, as well as refined research questions and theories. However, groups of HCI ... -
Analyzing Work in Project-based Organizations: An Examination of Email as an Empirical Source for Activity-based Reflections
University of Washington Abstract Analyzing Work in Project-based Organizations: An Examination of Email as an Empirical Source for Activity-based Reflections Richard Douglas Divine Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Mark ... -
Social Media as Local Crisis Infrastructure: The Interconnected Work of Citizens, Responders, and Journalists in the Social Media Crowd
This research considers the role of social media after the deadly 2014 Oso Landslide: how impacted community members, responders, volunteers, and journalists made use (and sometimes did not make use) of social media. Drawing ... -
Designing for Human Supported Evidence-Based Planning
Behavior planning is a technique that can help people bridge goals with the actions that will help them accomplish those goals. Although more than half of all Americans set goals for changing behavior every year, people ...