UW iSchool News Headlines https://ischool.uw.edu/news This feed displays the most current News Headlines from the University of Washington Information School. en 'Living Fully': iSchool's Gomez explores Tseltal community in new book https://ischool.uw.edu/news/2017/05/living-fully-ischools-gomez-explores-tseltal-community-new-book <span class="date-display-single">Thursday, May 18, 2017</span> <p> <img alt="&quot;Living Fully&quot; book cover" class="left" height="194" src="/sites/default/files/photos/livingfullycover150.jpg" width="150" />Information School Associate Professor <a href="https://ischool.uw.edu/people/faculty/rgomez">Ricardo Gomez</a> explores efforts to strengthen community development among the Tseltal Maya people of Chiapas, Mexico, in his new book, “Living Fully: Lekil Cuxlejalil among Tseltal Mayan Communities in Chiapas.” </p> <p> The book, published by One Equal Heart Foundation, is <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0692891447/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1495141626&amp;sr=1-3&amp;keywords=tseltal">available at Amazon.com</a>. All proceeds will go to the foundation to continue its support for indigenous communities in Chiapas. The book is trilingual – with passages in English, Spanish and Tseltal. </p> <p> Gomez has taken several trips to Chiapas with iSchool graduate students <a href="https://ischool.uw.edu/feature-stories/mexico-students-help-shape-library-indigenous-community">to work on creating a library for the Tseltal Maya</a>, one of 25 indigenous Mayan groups in southern Mexico and Central America. The five-year project is part of an effort that also includes a radio station and community wellness evaluation. </p> <p> The project gives students an opportunity to help create a library from a scattered collection of materials in the Tseltal language. During their visits, they have engaged with members of the community to develop a library that works for them. </p> <p> <strong><a href="https://ischool.uw.edu/feature-stories/mexico-students-help-shape-library-indigenous-community">Read more about Gomez’s project.</a></strong> </p> Thu, 18 May 2017 21:40:07 +0000 parrydo 11844 at https://ischool.uw.edu New faculty bring diverse expertise to the iSchool https://ischool.uw.edu/news/2017/05/new-faculty-bring-diverse-expertise-ischool <span class="date-display-single">Wednesday, May 17, 2017</span> <p> The Information School has six new faculty, including three tenure-track faculty starting in the fall and three lecturers who are already teaching at the school. </p> <p> <strong>Miranda Belarde-Lewis (UW), Native North American Indigenous Knowledge, Assistant </strong><strong>Professor</strong><br /> Belarde-Lewis’s research focuses on intellectual property and protection of indigenous knowledge. She has authored articles on Indigenous ontologies and Indigenous people, activism and social media. She is a founding member of the Indigenous Information Research Group and a past president of the Native Organization of Indigenous Scholars at UW. </p> <p> <strong>Alexis Hiniker (UW), HCI for Social Good, Assistant Professor</strong><br /> Hiniker is an HCI researcher and full-stack developer creating new technologies to foster well-being. She uses mixed methods to understand how people use interactive systems and build new technologies designed to reduce users' vulnerability and increase their sense of self-efficacy and empowerment. She specializes in children's technology and conducts many of her studies with preschoolers and their families. </p> <p> <strong>Anna Lauren Hoffmann (UC Berkeley), Data Ethics, Assistant </strong><strong>Professor</strong><br /> Hoffmann is a scholar and writer working at the intersections of data, technology, culture, and ethics. She researches and writes on issues in information, data, identity, and ethics, with particular attention to the ways in which discourses and design of technology, information systems, and big data can promote or hinder important human values like respect and justice. Beyond her scholarly research and publications, she actively contributes to broader public discussions of ethics, information, data, social media, identity and privacy. For nearly a decade, she has been teaching information technology ethics, as well foundational concepts in information, media and culture. More recently, her teaching has centered on ethical and political concerns for data scientists and researchers. </p> <p> <strong>Greg Hay (UW), Database Management, </strong><strong>Lecturer</strong><br /> Hay specializes in indexing, data modeling, and systems design and implementation. He has taught INFO 340 Introduction to Relational Database Management Systems, INFO 445 Advanced Database Design, Management and Maintenance, INFO 495 Internship in Informatics and INFO 499 Independent Study. </p> <p> <strong>Laura Schildkraut (NYU), Professionalism and Women in Technology, Lecturer</strong><br /> Schildkraut’s primary focus is on leveraging information technology and diversity to strengthen communication, teamwork, management and leadership skills to facilitate professional success. She specializes in management of information systems, project management and user studies. She has taught INFO 102 Gender and Information Technology and INFO 386 Professionalism in Informatics. </p> <p> <strong>Richard Sturman (RMIT), Information Systems Analysis and Design, </strong><strong>Lecturer</strong><br /> Sturman specializes in user-centered design, systems analysis and design, and product development. He has taught IMT 541 Enterprise Information Systems Analysis and Design and INFO 380 Information Systems Analysis and Design. </p> Wed, 17 May 2017 19:55:25 +0000 ldugdale 11840 at https://ischool.uw.edu John Palfrey's love for libraries on display at Ed Mignon lecture https://ischool.uw.edu/news/2017/05/john-palfreys-love-libraries-display-ed-mignon-lecture <span class="date-display-single">Friday, May 12, 2017</span> <p> <img alt="" class="left" height="140" src="/sites/default/files/photos/palfrey-sq.jpg" width="140" />John Palfrey, a noted scholar and author, gave a lively talk on passion and advocacy for libraries May 11 at the iSchool’s annual Ed Mignon Distinguished Lecture at the UW HUB. </p> <p> Palfrey, a law professor and internet freedom advocate, is head of school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. He highlighted some of the key points from his most recent book, “BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google.” </p> <p> He said that while some may argue that digital collections are making library stacks less necessary, there’s still a vital role for libraries as physical spaces. He pointed out that libraries are used mostly by young people and offer safe, inspirational places for them to learn and grow. </p> <p> But Palfrey also offered some “tough love” for libraries as well, saying that libraries need to shed the image of musty shelves full of reference books and offer things that surprise visitors. </p> <p> “You’ve got to make new forms of nostalgia for people,” he said. </p> <p> Palfrey said digitization offers libraries a chance to share reference materials and expand the knowledge available to patrons at every library. Rather than being limited to the stacks on hand, the broader network of libraries makes a vast number of volumes available to everyone. </p> <p> “The ability to make incredibly compelling ways to draw people into your collection are, I think, a really joyful thing,” he said. </p> <p> Palfrey said the arguments in his book are aimed not at academics, but at those on small-town library boards and others who control the public and educational purse strings and have the ability to invest in libraries. He noted that many people share a false view that libraries are being replaced by the internet, and his book is a rebuttal to that. </p> <p> “In some ways we’ve forgotten how vital and how amazing libraries are, and how important they are, and part of it is to fight back against this view,” he said. </p> <p> The <a href="https://ischool.uw.edu/faculty-staff/faculty-affairs/ed-mignon-distinguished-lecture">Ed Mignon Distinguished Lectureship</a> is named after iSchool alumnus and former faculty member Dr. Edmond Mignon. It is made possible by a gift from his wife, Molly Mignon.  </p> <p> <em><a href="https://ischool.uw.edu/news/2017/04/qa-author-and-educator-john-palfrey">Read our recent Q&amp;A with Palfrey here.</a></em> </p> Fri, 12 May 2017 16:34:09 +0000 parrydo 11654 at https://ischool.uw.edu Patricia Cutright, '83, named 2017 Distinguished Alumna https://ischool.uw.edu/news/2017/05/patricia-cutright-83-named-2017-distinguished-alumna <span class="date-display-single">Tuesday, May 2, 2017</span> <p> <img alt="Patricia Cutright" class="left" height="222" src="/sites/default/files/photos/Patricia%20Cutright.jpg" width="150" />Patricia Cutright, the iSchool 2017 Distinguished Alumna, has had a long and distinguished career in libraries. She is currently dean of libraries at Central Washington University and served as director of libraries at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and Eastern Oregon University. </p> <p> Cutright has earned more than 25 prestigious honors, including the 2002 Oregon Librarian of the Year; 2003 LITA/Gaylord Award for Achievement in Library and Information Technology presented by the American Library Association and the Library Information and Technology Association; 2002 Jean McKenzie / Woman of the Year Award; Soroptimist International of La Grande; and the 2002 Excellence in Telecommunications – Applications, awarded to the Pioneer Library System by Oregon Connections, a statewide telecommunications consortium. </p> <p> Recently, her efforts have earned Brooks Library at CWU the nomination for the 2016 National Medal for Museum and Library Service, and commendations from Senator Patty Murray, Senator Maria Cantwell, and Congressman David Reichert. </p> <p> Cutright received her Master of Librarianship at the University of Washington in 1983 and her B.A. Sociology at Idaho State University in 1980.  </p> <p> The <a href="https://ischool.uw.edu/alumni/distinguished">Distinguished Alumni</a> award, established in 1961, recognizes outstanding graduates of the Information School. Alumni are chosen for their distinguished service in community affairs, and/or specific meritorious service on behalf of the Information School and the UW. </p> Tue, 02 May 2017 17:54:39 +0000 parrydo 11638 at https://ischool.uw.edu Documents that Changed the World: Delayed stock market ticker tape, 1929 https://ischool.uw.edu/news/2017/05/documents-changed-world-delayed-stock-market-ticker-tape-1929 <span class="date-display-single">Tuesday, May 2, 2017</span> <p> <img alt="New York Stock Exchange, 1929" class="left" height="434" src="/sites/default/files/photos/tickertape.jpg" width="350" />Timing is everything, they say. In the <a href="http://faculty.washington.edu/jwj/doc/ticker.mp3">latest episode</a> of his <a href="https://ischool.uw.edu/documents-that-changed-world">Documents that Changed the World</a> podcast series, <a href="https://ischool.uw.edu/people/faculty/jwj">Joe Janes</a> of the UW Information School explores how an overload of critical information helped trigger the stock market crash of 1929, and thus the Great Depression. </p> <p> “This is a story about fortunes lost, lives ruined, a world plunged into a decade of depression, the end of an era,” Janes says in the podcast. “And, a story of infrastructure. And like any infrastructure, nobody pays any attention — until it goes wrong.” </p> <p> In the podcasts, Janes, an iSchool associate professor, explores the origin and often evolving meaning of historical documents both famous and less known. <a href="http://www.washington.edu/news/2012/08/02/documents-that-changed-the-world-a-podcast-series-from-joe-janes/">UW Today</a> presents these occasionally, and all of the podcasts are available online at the iSchool website. </p> <p> Janes focuses here on the information itself, as provided by the stock market ticker tape. Introduced in 1867, the ticker tape was just a specialty telegraph printer for stock transactions. Its use skyrocketed, and by 1887, fully 87 percent of Western Union’s total revenue came from stock traders and, in a suitable pairing, racetrack gamblers. With the ticker providing near-real-time updates on transactions, Janes says, “financial information was now in the hands of the many.” </p> <p> By the late 1920s, however, it was becoming apparent that this technology, moving at 300 characters a second, could not keep up with dramatically increasing trading volume, which reached into the millions daily. People knew that the ticker was suffering delays and unable to keep up — but with profits pouring in, it was hard to care. </p> <p> “On October 21, things started to turn,” Janes says. </p> <p> “When it started to fall, and the ticker fell behind, and then when it became clear that things were getting worse fast, it was the not knowing — and moreover not knowing what you didn’t know — that helped to fuel the panic,” Janes says in the podcast. </p> <p> The stock ticker ran 152 minutes late on Oct. 29, 1929, the day most associated with the crash. The crisis deepened over the months until a share of U.S. Steel bought at $262 in the high times of summer 1929 was worth all of $22 by the summer of 1932. </p> <p> Janes said the episode was inspired by his reading of John Kenneth Galbraith’s book “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Great-Crash-1929-Kenneth-Galbraith/dp/0547248164">The Great Crash</a>,” where he learned of the ticker tape delays “and how that helped to feed the growing sense of panic.” The book served as a starting point for his research. </p> <p> In preparing the podcast, Janes said, he was surprised how even in 1929 there was such a focus on “immediacy and timeliness of information in the market.” An effort was underway to speed up the transmission of information, he adds, but it didn’t get there in time. </p> <p> All of which makes this, as he says in the podcast, “an unusual example of a document that is likely simultaneously the record and cause of events.” </p> <p> So, this is a story of infrastructure, but also, Janes says, “a business story, a technology story, even a psychology story. To me, though, the critical aspect here is the information itself, the numbers and symbols tumbling out on the little strip of tape spelling doom for a way of life for so many.” </p> <p> <em>— <a href="http://www.washington.edu/news/2017/05/02/documents-that-changed-the-world-delayed-stock-market-ticker-tape-october-1929/">Story by Peter Kelley, UW News &amp; Information</a></em> </p> Tue, 02 May 2017 17:26:33 +0000 parrydo 11637 at https://ischool.uw.edu Q&A with author and educator John Palfrey https://ischool.uw.edu/news/2017/04/qa-author-and-educator-john-palfrey <span class="date-display-single">Friday, April 28, 2017</span> <p> <img alt="John Palfrey" class="left" height="298" src="/sites/default/files/photos/Palfrey-seated350.jpg" width="350" />John Palfrey is the head of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and is a noted scholar, law professor and internet freedom advocate. His most recent book is "BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google." Palfrey is the iSchool's guest at the <strong><a href="https://ischool.uw.edu/events/ed-mignon-distinguished-lecture-john-palfrey">2017 Ed Mignon Distinguished Lecture</a></strong> on May 11. Before his visit, we asked him a few questions about his book and the role of modern libraries and librarians. </p> <p> <strong>Q: In “BiblioTech,” you say nostalgia is a losing strategy. Why does nostalgia hurt libraries’ cause?</strong> </p> <p> <strong>A: </strong>Nostalgia is too thin a reed for libraries to cling to at this moment in history.  There is wonderful sentiment in favor of libraries.  They are – and should be – highly trusted institutions.  People love to recall their childhood memories of first walking into a library and having the world of knowledge upon up to them.  Many of us can summon up wonderful moments of being in the stacks, breathing in that musty book smell, and carrying out more books than we can reasonably manage.  But this nostalgia can keep people from seeing the importance of libraries today and tomorrow, in the digital age.  We need to be creating new forms of nostalgia that builds upon the fabulous things that libraries are doing in towns, on campuses, and in big cities all around the world. </p> <p> <strong>Q: You’re an advocate for much greater collaboration among libraries, where each is a node in a vast network. How would that change visitors’ experience when they go to their local library?</strong> </p> <p> <strong>A:</strong> Collaboration between and among libraries can only deepen the experience at individual libraries.  There is no point for libraries to compete with one another.  By working together, libraries can create experiences and services that can be shared from town to town, city to city, campus to campus.  The sky is the limit when it comes to what that could mean for visitors at their local library.  And while the upside strikes me as clear, I fail to see the downside of much greater collaboration. </p> <p> <strong>Q: In the absence of a modern-day Andrew Carnegie, how do we inspire the surge in public and private investment in libraries that you’ve written is needed?</strong> </p> <p> <strong>A: </strong>I think that we all need to realize the importance of libraries to the proper functioning of our democracy.  Libraries are some of our most trusted civic institutions – if not our absolutely most trusted civic institutions.  Many of us feel we are not at a high water mark in terms of the functioning of American democratic systems.  Investments in libraries are inexpensive ways to help address this concern.  Individuals, cities and towns, and institutions need to invest more, not less, in libraries these days. </p> <p> <strong>Q: How do you see the role of librarians as professionals changing in the coming years?</strong> </p> <p> <strong>A:</strong> I argue in "BiblioTech" that librarians ought to function more as networked actors than as solo operators in siloed institutions.  Many librarians have figured this out and are thriving in this way.  I think the digital and networked world opens up realms of new possibilities in the process, which will both serve library staff and their customers extremely well. </p> <p> <strong>Q: How can students best equip themselves for a career in librarianship?</strong> </p> <p> <strong>A: </strong>I think an open mind, flexibility, and a desire to serve no matter how the information and knowledge environment changes will be key.  I think the training that librarians get in an iSchool or library school can be a great start, but surely for all of us as professionals that journey of learning and skill development is going to be long and constant.  I think that’s very exciting and energizing!  And I send my thanks to all those who are doing the great work of learning to be librarians, working in libraries, and teaching those who will work in libraries.  It’s such important work.  </p> Fri, 28 Apr 2017 22:00:25 +0000 parrydo 11633 at https://ischool.uw.edu Mae Benne, retired library science professor, passes away https://ischool.uw.edu/news/2017/04/mae-benne-longtime-library-science-professor-passes-away <span class="date-display-single">Friday, April 28, 2017</span> <p> <img alt="Mae Benne" class="right" height="300" src="/sites/default/files/photos/Mae200.jpg" width="200" />Mae Maxine Benne, retired University of Washington professor of library science, passed away recently at Horizon House in Seattle at the age of 93. Mae taught children’s literature, storytelling and children’s library service at the UW library school from 1965 to 1988 to future school and public librarians who were inspired to carry on Mae’s fundamental belief in the power of the written word and the right of children to have access to information and the freedom to learn. </p> <p> She found she loved library work as a high school librarian in Oberlin, Kansas, and enrolled at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, where she earned her degree in library science. Her first job in public libraries was at Yakima Valley Regional Library as a children’s librarian. She next became the head of the Southfield Library in Wayne County outside of Detroit. Mae missed Washington state and when offered the job as coordinator of children’s services in the newly formed North Central Regional Library in Wenatchee, she accepted. </p> <p> In 1965, Mae became the children’s specialist at the library school at the University of Washington. She attended the University of Chicago in 1970-71 with a federal scholarship to improve teaching. When Mae returned to the UW, she was assigned the position of acting assistant director of the library school and later served as interim director. In 1976, she returned to full-time teaching and embarked on a sabbatical, with the objective of identifying the role and function of the central children’s department in 29 metropolitan libraries in the U.S. and two in Canada. </p> <p> In the following years, she revised the three core courses for children’s librarians and taught storytelling and young adult literature. Active in several professional organizations, including the Pacific NW Library Association, the Washington Library Association, and the American Library Association, Mae served as chair on the 1986 Caldecott Committee. </p> <p> Mae retired in 1988, leaving a legacy of excellence in providing library service to young people. </p> <p> A memorial will be held at Horizon House in the Sky Lounge, 900 University St. in Seattle, on May 14, 2017, from 2 to 4 p.m. </p> <p> Gifts in her memory may be made to the <a data-mce-="" href="https://www.washington.edu/giving/make-a-gift/?source_typ=3&amp;source=BENNES"><strong>Mae Benne Endowed Scholarship</strong></a>. This scholarship was established by Mae’s lifelong friend Ursula Meyer to honor Mae Benne’s extraordinary career and dedication to the field of librarianship. Mae herself made gifts to grow this endowment to provide scholarships to MLIS students who plan to work in public libraries. </p> <p> <strong>Do you have memories of Mae to share? Please post them on our <a href="http://maebenne.ischool.uw.edu/">memorial website</a>. </strong> </p> Fri, 28 Apr 2017 20:14:37 +0000 parrydo 11632 at https://ischool.uw.edu iAffiliates Day focuses on technology's role in changing world https://ischool.uw.edu/news/2017/04/iaffiliates-day-focuses-technologys-role-changing-world <span class="date-display-single">Friday, April 28, 2017</span> <p> <img alt="Student Capstone presentations" height="467" src="/sites/default/files/photos/6c700.jpg" width="700" /></p> <p> “Digital transformation” was the theme as dozens of iSchool corporate and community partners, faculty, staff and students attended the 2017 edition of iAffiliates Day on Thursday, April 27, at wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ (the Intellectual House) on the UW campus. </p> <p> Mike Cowden, general manager at <a href="https://www.slalom.com/">Slalom Consulting</a>, and Heather Andersen, managing director at <a href="https://www.accenture.com/">Accenture</a>, opened with a joint presentation on how sustainability has become a key strategic issue for technology companies. With the world’s population expected to grow to 10 billion by mid-century and consumption of resources growing even faster than the population, Andersen and Cowden pointed to the need for technology to tackle the issues. </p> <p> “Every company is becoming a technology company, so the opportunity is great to join the technology workforce and contribute to solving some of these problems,” Cowden said. </p> <p> That was followed by a presentation, led by iSchool faculty, on how public libraries are thriving as social spaces for civic engagement. <a href="https://ischool.uw.edu/people/faculty/migarrid">Maria Garrido</a>, a research assistant professor with the <a href="http://tascha.uw.edu/">Technology &amp; Social Change Group</a>, and <a href="https://ischool.uw.edu/people/faculty/hildreth">Susan Hildreth</a>, professor of practice, discussed how the world’s libraries are designing programs and services to promote civic dialogue. They were joined by Master of Science in Information Management student Daniel Kapellmann, along with Valerie Wonder and Orlando Lugo of the <a href="http://www.spl.org/">Seattle Public Library</a>. </p> <p> <img alt="Brian Lent of HERE Technologies." class="left" height="407" src="/sites/default/files/photos/4c350.jpg" width="350" />Brian Lent, chief technology officer at <a href="https://here.com/">HERE Technologies</a>, delivered the keynote address on the evolution of maps into a digital representation of the entire physical world, and the sheer amount of data that this will require. </p> <p> HERE is working to build an “index of reality” – a 3-D, real-time view of the world. Beyond roads and trails, Lent said, “We want to push the boundaries and add new elements of the real, physical world.” That would include geographic features, wildlife migrations, internet-connected devices and, ultimately, people. </p> <p> iSchool Assistant Professor <a href="https://ischool.uw.edu/people/faculty/jevinw">Jevin West</a> followed with a presentation about his new course, <a href="http://www.callingbullshit.org/">“Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data,”</a> which has <a href="https://ischool.uw.edu/news/calling-bs">struck a chord with students</a> at the university. West gave some examples of the ways half-truths and misrepresentations become accepted as facts, and talked about the need to teach people how to sniff out “BS.” </p> <p> iSchool students served as the closing act, showing off a few of the projects they are working on for <a href="https://ischool.uw.edu/capstone">Capstone</a>, the final project in the <a href="https://ischool.uw.edu/informatics">Informatics</a>, <a href="https://ischool.uw.edu/mlis">MLIS</a> and <a href="https://ischool.uw.edu/msim">MSIM</a> programs. Their programs involved gathering data for self-driving cars; collecting data on users’ behavior surrounding commercial music services; and unlocking public data. </p> <p> iAffiliates Day is part of the <a href="https://ischool.uw.edu/iaffiliates">iAffiliates program</a>, which engages community partners with iSchool faculty, researchers and students. Organizations can sign up as premium partners and develop customized engagement strategies that provide benefits for partners and help support the iSchool. To learn more, or to ask questions about the program, email <a href="mailto:iaffiliates@uw.edu">iaffiliates@uw.edu</a>. </p> <p> <a href="https://business.facebook.com/UWiSchool/photos/pcb.10155264218238695/10155264214773695/?type=3&amp;theater"><em>See more photos from iAffiliates Day on our Facebook page.</em></a> </p> Fri, 28 Apr 2017 17:48:50 +0000 parrydo 11631 at https://ischool.uw.edu MSIM student to serve as gonfalonier at UW Commencement https://ischool.uw.edu/news/2017/04/msim-student-serve-gonfalonier-uw-commencement <span class="date-display-single">Friday, April 7, 2017</span> <p> <img alt="Andy Herman" class="left" height="233" src="/sites/default/files/photos/AndyHerman-350.jpg" width="350" />Andy Herman, a graduating <a href="http://ischool.uw.edu/msim">Master of Science in Information Management</a> student, was selected by the Graduate School to be one of only two master’s students from the UW Seattle campus who will serve as gonfaloniers – banner carriers – at the <a href="http://www.washington.edu/graduation/">Commencement ceremony</a> on June 17 in Husky Stadium. </p> <p> Gonfaloniers are nominated by their program advisors and exemplify graduate education at the UW: excellence in learning, teaching, mentoring and/or research. They are announced by name as they enter the stadium, featured in the commencement program, and sent to the news media for recognition. </p> <p> Herman was born in Seoul, South Korea, and grew up in Las Vegas. He received his undergraduate degree in microbiology from the University of Washington in 2011. After briefly attending medical school, he shifted careers to pursue a career in health-care cybersecurity at the iSchool. </p> <p> Herman co-founded the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/isacauw/">ISACA student group chapter</a> at the UW to provide opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to interact with cybersecurity professionals. He also served as the Vice President of the Association of Information Management Students group. </p> <p> Currently, Herman is an Information Security Consultant at First Information Technology Services. He intends to continue his career in cybersecurity and risk management and hopes to work with other professionals to contribute to the development of compliance frameworks to protect private data of consumers.  </p> <p> In receiving this honor, Herman expressed his gratitude to his parents and siblings, the iSchool faculty, staff, and his cohort, who motivated and supported him through the program. He thanked Dean Kirkpatrick, iSchool career counselor, for his award nomination and Annie Searle, iSchool lecturer, for her continued mentoring and support.  </p> Fri, 07 Apr 2017 20:14:12 +0000 parrydo 11612 at https://ischool.uw.edu UW highlights Ph.D. candidate's work on touchscreen accessibility https://ischool.uw.edu/news/2017/04/uw-highlights-phd-candidates-work-touchscreen-accessibility <span class="date-display-single">Monday, April 3, 2017</span> <p> <img alt="Martez Mott" height="474" src="/sites/default/files/photos/martez700.jpg" width="699" /></p> <p> Today’s touchscreen world threatens to leave behind a lot of people with motor impairments, but iSchool Ph.D. candidate Martez Mott is working to change that with “Smart Touch.” The project aims to make touch devices intuitive and accessible to everyone, regardless of whether they touch with a finger, a palm or the back of a hand. </p> <p> The University of Washington highlighted Mott’s work with “Smart Touch” and Ability-Based Design in a <strong><a href="http://www.washington.edu/boundless/ischool-accessibility/">feature story on its home page</a>.</strong> </p> <p> The story delves into Mott’s research at Provail, a local center that helps people with disabilities. The nonprofit offers computer classes, and Mott worked with eight participants, asking each to hit targets on the screen and then collecting the data. </p> <p> “When people are motivated to use technology, they’ll employ a lot of different strategies in order for that to become possible. It was difficult to get an understanding of what ‘touch’ looks like, he told the UW for its story. “People used the software in ways I couldn’t have predicted, which resulted in a lot of failure – and fixing – for me.” </p> <p> After “a lot of learning,” Mott has a system up and running and is constantly tweaking its algorithms to improve accuracy and perform better. His work is in collaboration with his advisor, Associate Professor Jacob Wobbrock, who will be honored this spring with the <a href="https://ischool.uw.edu/news/2017/02/jacob-wobbrock-honored-sigchi-social-impact-award">SIGCHI Social Impact Award</a> for his work with Ability-Based Design. </p> <p> <a href="http://www.washington.edu/boundless/ischool-accessibility/">&gt; Read the UW story about Mott and watch a video about his work.</a> </p> <p> <a href="https://ischool.uw.edu/feature-stories/wobbrock-mad-lab-make-technology-accessible-all">&gt; Learn more about Wobbrock and Ability-Based Design.</a> </p> Mon, 03 Apr 2017 19:29:32 +0000 parrydo 11598 at https://ischool.uw.edu
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