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The Office of Research maintains a repository for the publication and storage of a broad range of artifacts generated by the research, scholarship, and creative activities of faculty, staff, students, and collaborators of the Information School. The repository functions as a venue for the publication, dissemination, reporting, and promotion of the intellectual and programmatic work of the Information School community.
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Coding Manual for Barriers and Solutions to Employment for Homeless Young People
(2013-01-10)This technical report presents a coding manual for analyzing a body of material related to the barriers and solutions to employment for homeless young people. The coding manual, which shows good inter-rater reliability, ... -
Coding Manual for "What Will it Take to End Homelessness?"
(2013-01-07)This technical report presents a coding manual for analyzing a body of material related to the causes or explanations of homelessness, opportunities and solutions for addressing homelessness, or related aspects. The coding ... -
Phase II Investigation: The Future of Information Seeking & Services Expo
(University of Washington School of Information, 2011-12-31)The Future InfoExpo was important because it demonstrates “proof of concept” of new or expanded functions and capabilities in 3D, immersive virtual environments and offers clear directions for future research. Users and ... -
XooML: XML in Support of Many Tools Working on a Single Organization of Personal Information
(2010-10-10)XooML takes a step towards addressing a basic tension in the development of supporting tools of Personal Information Man-agement (PIM) and, more generally, in the development of com-puter-based tools for end users: How to ... -
Multi-lifespan Information System Design in the Aftermath of Genocide: An Early-Stage Report from Rwanda
(2010-01-12)In this paper we report on our research and design efforts to provide Rwandans with access to and reuse of video interviews from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. More generally, we investigate methods and ... -
Design Talk in a Community of Innovators
(2006-05-19)This technical report describes an exploratory analysis of a community of innovators who indirectly contributed to the design of del.icio.us, a system for social tagging. Participants in this community, which is mediated ... -
Personal Information Management
(2005-11-08)Personal Information Management (PIM) refers to both the practice and the study of the activities people perform in order to acquire, organize, maintain and retrieve information for everyday use. One ideal of PIM is that ... -
An Overview of Tactile Graphics Production and HCI Barriers in Existing Software Resources
(2005-08-31)Through the use of an on-line questionnaire and in-depth observation sessions, we examined how people produce tactile graphics (raised images that are designed to be read by the fingers) for blind students and how they use ... -
Helping Users to Use Online Resources to Resolve Information Technology Problems: An Opportunity for the Semantic Web
(2005-08-29)Users need help systems to support their use of complex information technology (IT); however, several studies have shown help systems to be inadequate. To identify ways in which to improve help systems, we administered an ... -
Exploring the Persistent Problem of User Assistance
(2005-08-25)Users continue to report problems with user assistance systems. We conducted a study within three populations that have a stake in the user assistance process: users, developers (anyone who plays a role in creating the ... -
In Support of External Representations for Personal Information Management
(2005-08-17)This article describes research that looks at how structure is now used and might be better used in support of personal information management (PIM). Efforts to structure personal information find expression in various ... -
Coding Manual for “The Watcher and The Watched: Social Judgments about Privacy in a Public Place”
(2005-07-13)How do people reason about privacy when sophisticated cameras capture people’s images in a public space? Toward answering this question, we interviewed 120 participants in one of four conditions. All conditions involved ... -
Reflections on Usable Privacy for Location-Awareness Systems
(2005-06-29)For the past decade, the Value Sensitive Design Research Lab now at the University of Washington has been investigating privacy in public in relation to information technologies. More recently, we have begun collaborations ... -
Coding Manual for "The Distant Gardener: What Conversations in the Telegarden Reveal about Human-Telerobotic Interaction"
(2005-06-16)The Telegarden is a small plot of earth encircling an industrial robotic arm. A web-based interface allows users to activate the robotic arm, view the garden through a camera mounted on the robotic arm, change the view, ... -
Creativity Tasks and Coding System -- Used in the Plasma Display Window Study
(2005-04-05)Few would disagree about the importance of creativity in human life. At the same time, creativity has proved difficult to measure empirically. In this technical report, we describe three creativity tasks – the Droodle ... -
The Universal Labeler: Plan the Project and Let Your Information Follow
(2005-03-29)The Universal Labeler (UL) supports a single, unified scheme of “labeling” which can be applied to organize various kinds of information including electronic documents, email messages and web references. The UL takes a ... -
Don’t Take My Folders Away! Organizing Personal Information to Get Things Done
(2005-01-11)A study explores the way people organize information in support of projects (“teach a course”, “plan a wedding”, etc.). The folder structures to organize project information – especially electronic documents and other ... -
SmartSites Toolkit for Evaluating Course Web Sites
(2004-12-17)To facilitate the design of effective web sites for classroom-based courses, we developed a systematic heuristic evaluation methodology and relevant heuristics. To facilitate reuse of the methodology, we developed an ... -
The Web Experience
(2004-12-17)We developed an interactive movie to educate people who do not have impairments about how people who do have certain impairments experience the World Wide Web. We walk the viewer through the experiences of five people who ...