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HCDE Course Showcase: Introduction to User Research (HCDE 313)
Join the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering for our end-of-quarter course showcases and view current student projects. Light refreshments will be provided.
Find additional Spring 2025 Course Showcases on the HCDE calendar. Introduction to User Research (HCDE 313), Instructors: Mina Zavary & Sourojit Ghosh
40 HCDE undergraduate students will present their user research projects. Each group conducted field observations, interviews, and surveys and reported findings and design reccomendations to answer a design question of their choosing.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Sieg Building (SIG). Campus room: 233. Accessibility Contact: hcdehelp@uw.edu. Event Types: Exhibits. Special Events.
Wednesday, June 4, 2025, 2:30 PM – 4:20 PM.
HCDE Course Showcase: Information Visualization (HCDE 411)
Join the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering for our end-of-quarter course showcases and view current student projects. Light refreshments will be provided.
Find additional Spring 2025 Course Showcases on the HCDE calendar. Information Visualization (HCDE 411)
Instructors: Adam Hyland & Murtaza Ali
Students explored different ways of interpreting data visualization through projects on homelessness in Washington, movies, and video games. Using a variety of data engineering methods and visualizing their data with Altair and Tableau, students had a chance to explore a complete data science life cycle. Come see how their projects explore the role of data visualization in understanding complex social issues.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Sieg Building (SIG). Campus room: 233. Accessibility Contact: hcdehelp@uw.edu. Event Types: Exhibits. Special Events.
Thursday, June 5, 2025, 9:30 AM – 11:20 AM.
HCDE Course Showcase: UX Prototyping Techniques (HCDE 351)
Join the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering for our end-of-quarter course showcases and view current student projects. Light refreshments will be provided.
Find additional Spring 2025 Course Showcases on the HCDE calendar. UX Prototyping Techniques (HCDE 351)
Instructors: Brock Craft & Julie Kientz
This event will showcase final group and individual projects from 45 HCDE undergraduate students who are learning prototyping techniques including sewing, laser cutting, 3D printing, video prototyping, and experience prototyping.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Odegaard Undergraduate Library (OUG). Campus room: 136. Accessibility Contact: hcdehelp@uw.edu. Event Types: Exhibits. Special Events.
Thursday, June 5, 2025, 9:30 AM – 11:20 AM.
Quick Questions Drop-In Advising: Current HCDE BS Students
Quick questions drop-in advising with our HCDE BS adviser.
Note: These drop-in advising sessions are intended for quick questions and for current HCDE BS students only. Current HCDE BS students seeking a more in-depth advising conversation or prospective HCDE BS students should instead book an advising appointment.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/98076420726. Campus room: Virtual; login with UWNetID required. Accessibility Contact: Meghan Oxley, what@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Target Audience: Current HCDE undergraduates only.
Thursday, June 5, 2025, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM.
Zoom.
HCDE Course Showcase: Service Design (HCDE 529)
Join the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering for our end-of-quarter course showcases and view current student projects. Light refreshments will be provided.
Find additional Spring 2025 Course Showcases on the HCDE calendar. Service Design (HCDE 529)
Instructor: Tyler Fox
Students in HCDE's Service Design course examined climate change through projects on pet toys, children's products, coffee experiences, packaging, fashion, school lunches, and cosmetics. Using co-design, role play, user research, service blueprints, ecosystem maps, and journey maps, they identified key environmental touchpoints within these services. Come learn about these proposals for value-centric services in the age of climate catastrophe.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Sieg Building (SIG). Campus room: 233. Accessibility Contact: hcdehelp@uw.edu. Event Types: Exhibits. Special Events.
Thursday, June 5, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
Dissertation Proposal: Lotus Zhang, "Accessible Digital Content Creation by Blind and Low Vision Individuals"
The HCDE & DUB community is invited to attend a dissertation proposal defense by PhD candidate Lotus Zhang.
Accessible Digital Content Creation by Blind and Low Vision Individuals, Proposal Abstract:Creative activities play an essential role in cultural participation and self-expression but remain largely inaccessible to blind and low vision (BLV) individuals due to visually dominant workflows. While increasing research has begun to examine the accessibility of creative tools, little is known about how BLV individuals define and pursue creativity across varied contexts, or how to support their creative agency through design.
My dissertation investigates how to design creative tools that align with the goals, contexts, and workflows of BLV users. Through a user-centered design approach, I explore how accessible feedback and interaction mechanisms, particularly those leveraging AI, can support different forms of content creation. I have conducted three empirical studies: an in-depth formative study that…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Sieg Building (SIG). Campus room: 232. Accessibility Contact: hcdehelp@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Tuesday, June 10, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
HCDE Pre-Graduation Teach-In: Foundations and Futures of Human-Computer Interaction
Join the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering for a special graduation-day teach-in that explores how the technologies we use every day — from the computer mouse to the internet — are rooted in federally funded research and the field of human-computer interaction (HCI).
HCDE Professor Kate Starbird will draw from her Foundations in HCI course to trace the path from post-World War II science policy to the invention of the personal computer, social media, search engines, AI, and more. She will also highlight exciting research happening in HCDE today and how UW students are helping shape the future of technology.
This event is open to the HCDE community and guests of the Class of 2025.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: 233. Accessibility Contact: hcdehelp@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Special Events. Target Audience: HCDE community and guests of the Class of 2025.
Wednesday, June 11, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Sieg Building.
HCDE Graduation and Awards Ceremony
Join the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering as we honor the next generation of innovators and leaders.
The 2025 HCDE Graduation Ceremony celebrates the achievements of our undergraduates, master's students, and PhD candidates. The ceremony includes a guest commencement speaker and an awards ceremony recognizing outstanding students for their exceptional contributions.
Schedule
+ Remarks by HCDE Professor & Chair Julie Kientz
+ Graduation address by Leila Takayama, cognitive and social scientist
+ Recognition of graduates
+ Presentation of awards.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: Ballroom. Accessibility Contact: mewing3@uw.edu. Event Types: Ceremonies. Target Audience: HCDE graduating bachelor's, master's, and PhD students, their families and friends.
Wednesday, June 11, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
For more info visit hcde.uw.edu. Dissertation Proposal: Laura Jo Swartley, "Distilling Supportive Practice | Honoring Learner Contributions through Review and Reflection on Dynamics of Lived-Learning Partnership"
The HCDE & DUB community is invited to attend a dissertation proposal defense by PhD candidate Laura Jo Swartley.
Distilling Supportive Practice | Honoring Learner Contributions
through Review and Reflection
on Dynamics of Lived-Learning Partnership, Proposal Abstract:Holistically understanding learning experiences, even our own, can be difficult. Yet learning communities need stronger connections and communication, particularly in large, distributed, and difficult learning contexts. Learner-educator partnership can be a path to greater understanding. My dissertation examines outcomes of a nearly four-year research partnership with undergraduate students within an R-1 university environmental studies context. Our partnership leaned into emergence, agency, and shared learning as students in research roles explored their and their peers’ developing conceptions of Earth-human relationship, environmental justice, and collaborative inquiry.
The dissertation has two main goals: First, through deep…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Sieg Building (SIG). Campus room: 433. Accessibility Contact: hcdehelp@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, June 12, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
PMEC All Center Meeting
Pacific Marine Energy Center
This link will be updated as more information about the all center meeting becomes available.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: jtwedt@uw.edu. Event Types: Conferences.
Monday, August 11, 2025.