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ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers worked with almost 260 people to understand online disagreements and to develop potential design interventions that could make these discussions more productive and centered around relationship-building.
A ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø-led team has developed a method that uses the camera on a person’s smartphone or computer to take their pulse and breathing rate from a real-time video of their face.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers have developed a new skill for a smart speaker that for the first time monitors both regular and irregular heartbeats without physical contact.
A ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø team created Audeo, a system that can generate music using only visual cues of someone playing the piano.
Using physical therapy combined with a noninvasive method of stimulating nerve cells in the spinal cord, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers helped six Seattle area participants regain some hand and arm mobility.
A team led by the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø has developed Smellicopter: an autonomous drone that uses a live antenna from a moth to navigate toward smells. Smellicopter can also sense and avoid obstacles as it travels through the air.
A team led by researchers at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Tacoma, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and Washington State University Puyallup has discovered a chemical that kills coho salmon in urban streams before the fish can spawn.
In this Q&A, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Information School associate professor Jin Ha Lee discusses how video game and music fandom communities can be “places of light” during the COVID-19 pandemic.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers have developed SoundWatch, a smartwatch app for deaf, Deaf and hard-of-hearing people who want to be aware of nearby sounds.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers have created a sensor system that can ride aboard a small drone or an insect, such as a moth, until it gets to its destination.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers developed a project that scans the streets every few weeks to document how Seattle has reacted to the pandemic and what recovery looks like.
A study by ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers found that both mainstream and misinformation news sites displayed similar levels of problematic ads. ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø News had a conversation with the team about this research, where ads on news sites come from, and how things might change leading up to the election.
A ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø team has received a grant to develop a model that uses local data to generate policy recommendations that could help lower COVID-19 infections in King County.
Researchers at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø have developed a tiny wireless steerable camera that can ride aboard an insect or an insect-sized robot.
Using air quality data from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency monitors across the U.S., a ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø-led team looked for changes in two common pollutants over the course of 2020.
Researchers from the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medicine, along with volunteers from Microsoft, have developed a new contact-tracing app called CovidSafe.
When the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø announced it was moving its spring quarter 2020 classes entirely online to combat the novel coronavirus, instructors across campus faced a new, uncharted challenge.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers are beginning a national study to help families discover technology that helps them both successfully navigate home-based learning and combat social isolation.
When the first U.S. COVID-19 patient emerged in Washington, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medicine, as the state’s foremost provider of advanced medical care, was thrust into the role of trailblazer. Its clinicians and researchers have since mustered a speedy and sometimes ingenious response.
After surveying smartphone users, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers found that many people misunderstand online status indicators but still carefully shape their behavior to control how they are displayed to others.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers are developing an app that will allow health organizations to monitor coughs from self-quarantined COVID-19 patients from home.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers watched 25 participants scroll through their Facebook or Twitter feeds while, unbeknownst to them, a Google Chrome extension randomly added debunked content on top of some of the real posts.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers are inviting the public to share their experiences on their regular commutes in a survey.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers interviewed 22 athletes and staff members from three college athletics programs to see how collecting data from college athletes might encroach on their autonomy.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers have developed a mathematical model that describes how rotating detonation engines work.
Using 30 years of satellite data, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers discovered that within one year of the opening of a major dam in the Mekong River basin, downstream river temperatures during the dry season dropped by up to 3.6 degrees F (2 degrees C).
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers have created AuraRing, a ring and wristband combination that can detect the precise location of someone’s index finger and continuously track hand movements.
Using a new “non-targeted” approach, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Tacoma researchers screened samples from multiple regions of Puget Sound to look for potentially harmful compounds that might be present.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers have found that warmer temperatures, at levels expected under most climate change projections, can lead to higher concentrations of arsenic in rice grains.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers have created Carpentry Compiler, a digital tool that allows users to design woodworking projects. Once a project is designed, the tool creates optimized fabrication instructions based on the materials and equipment a user has available.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers have found that air pollution from electricity generation emissions in 2014 led to about 16,000 premature deaths in the continental U.S. In many states, the majority of the health impacts came from emissions originating in other states.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers aimed to understand both the prevalence of discrimination events and how these events affect college students in their daily lives. Over the course of two academic quarters, the team compared students’ self-reports of unfair treatment to passively tracked changes in daily activities, such as hours slept, steps taken or time spent on the phone.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers have found that the third-party genealogy site GEDmatch is vulnerable to multiple kinds of security risks.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers have developed a new smart speaker skill that lets a device use white noise to both soothe sleeping babies and monitor their breathing and movement.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø transportation researchers looked into why the docked bike-share program Pronto failed while dockless bike sharing has been so successful.
Are you willing to ride in a driverless car? Researchers at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø studied how Americans’ perceived cost of commute time changes depending on who’s driving.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø security researchers have created ShareAR, a toolkit that lets developers build collaborative and interactive features into AR apps without sacrificing their users’ privacy and security.
Researchers at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø have used machine learning to develop a new system that can monitor factory and warehouse workers and tell them how ergonomic their jobs are in real time.
In a pilot study led by the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, researchers explored art-based mindfulness activities that schools could use to reduce headaches, a common side effect of stress in adolescent girls. After three weeks of twice-weekly mindfulness and art therapy sessions, eight teenage girls reported experiencing significantly fewer headaches.