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Human-Centered Computing

Our work in human-centered computing explores and enhances the ways in which people and communities engage with and experience technology. 

Our research considers the personal, educational, cultural, and ethical implications of innovation. Drawing upon techniques from human-computer interaction, learning sciences, sensing and more, we aim to maximize the potential benefits of technology while minimizing potential harms to individuals, groups and society.

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Richard Anderson

Emeritus Faculty


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Aleksandr Aravkin

Adjunct Faculty


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Alan Borning

Emeritus Faculty


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Bingni Brunton

Adjunct Faculty


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Aylin Caliskan

Adjunct Faculty


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Ryan Calo

Adjunct Faculty


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Anind Dey

Adjunct Faculty


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Leah Findlater

Adjunct Faculty


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Bruce Hemingway

Emeritus Faculty


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Benjamin Mako Hill

Adjunct Faculty


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Bill Howe

Adjunct Faculty


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Gary Hsieh

Adjunct Faculty


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Julie Kientz

Adjunct Faculty


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Amy J. Ko

Adjunct Faculty


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Richard Ladner

Emeritus Faculty


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Tanu Mitra

Adjunct Faculty


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Nadya Peek

Adjunct Faculty


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Daniela Rosner

Adjunct Faculty


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Martin Saveski

Adjunct Faculty


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Chirag Shah

Adjunct Faculty


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Frederick Shic

Adjunct Faculty


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Kate Starbird

Adjunct Faculty


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Jacob Sunshine, M.D.

Adjunct Faculty


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Peter Tarczy-Hornoch

Adjunct Faculty


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Lucy Wang

Adjunct Faculty


Portrait of Dan Weld

Daniel S. Weld

Emeritus Faculty


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Jevin West

Adjunct Faculty


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Jacob Wobbrock

Adjunct Faculty



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Highlights

HearingTracker

What’s Next for AI Hearing Aids? Hearing in Your Own Friend Bubble


Three people seated around a table talking in a crowded restaurant with a virtual bubble surrounding them

A technology known as semantic hearing developed in Allen School professor Shyam Gollakota’s lab could let users create acoustic bubbles, isolate chosen voices, and control individual sounds in their environment.



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Fast Company

How digital sleuths are using AI to fix America’s crumbling sidewalks


Illustration of a digital map pin superimposed on an infrared-styled image of a broken sidewalk

Allen School professor Jon Froehlich talks about how Project Sidewalk empowers communities by crowdsourcing data on pedestrian infrastructure, from curb ramps to broken pavement, to improve accessibility.



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UW News

Some agentic AI browsers come with major cybersecurity risks, UW study finds


Hands typing at a laptop shrouded in darkness

Professors David Kohlbrenner and Franziska Roesner (Ph.D., ‘14) of the Allen School’s Privacy & Security Research Lab found that browser agents are susceptible to cyberattacks by violating the same-origin policy, a cornerstone of modern web security that has safeguarded users for 30 years.



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