User Experience Research

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Morgan G. Ames

Morgan Ames

Alumni (MIMS 2006)
Assistant Professor of Practice
Science and technology studies; computer-supported cooperative work and social computing; education; anthropology; youth technocultures; ideology and inequity; critical data science
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Jenna Burrell

Adjunct Professor
how systematically excluded communities adopt technology and adapt it to their needs, human control over algorithms, ethnography
Kimiko Ryokai

Kimiko Ryokai

Associate Professor
Human-computer interaction, tangible user interfaces

Recent Publications

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Securing Your Data From Breaches Will Help Us Improve Healthcare

When you go to a new healthcare clinic in the United States, doctors and nurses pull up your patient record based on your name and birthdate.  Sometimes it’s not your chart they pull up.  This is not only a healthcare problem; it’s a data science problem.

The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child, by Morgan G. Ames
The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child

In The Charisma Machine, Morgan Ames chronicles the life and legacy of the One Laptop per Child project and explains why — despite its failures — the same utopian visions that inspired OLPC still motivate other projects trying to use technology to “disrupt” education and development.

Decision Making Under Radical Uncertainty: A Multiple Case Comparison of Companies Creating New Technologies Featuring New Forms of Personal Data
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Observing the User Experience, Second Edition: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research
Personal Photography, Digital Technologies, and the Uses of the Visual
A comparative study of speech and dialed input voice interfaces in rural India
Studying paper use to inform the design of personal and portable technology
Improving Aviation Safety with Information Visualization: A Flight Simulation Study

User Experience Research news

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Professor Kimiko Ryokai and Team Awarded $1.29M to Center Indigenous Youth in Museum Spaces

A group of researchers, including the I School’s own Professor Kimiko Ryokai, recently received a grant of $1.29M from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to tackle this challenge.

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Visualize this! Ph.D. Student Chase Stokes Discusses His Love for Data Vis

Would you prefer a chart or text when being presented with information? Ph.D. student Chase Stokes has dedicated his studies to answering this question.

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ScholarPhi: A Novel Interface for Reading Scientific Papers

ScholarPhi is an augmented reading interface that makes scientific papers more understandable and contextually rich

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Hany Farid, Joshua Blumenstock Awarded Seed Funding for COVID-19 Mitigation Efforts

Professors Hany Farid and Joshua Blumenstock have been awarded seed funding for their projects designed to mitigate the COVID-19 crisis by CITRIS and the Banatao Institute.

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Hany Farid Fights Back Against Coronavirus Misinformation

Prof. Farid: “Coronavirus misinformation is going to get a lot of people killed.”

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Alumnus Galen Panger Discusses Why Instagram Might Hide “Likes” from its Platform
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Fact or Science Fiction? Using your Thoughts to Enter a Password

I School researchers have developed a custom-fit earpiece that that can capture “passthoughts” through brainwave signals from the ear canal, and for the first time demonstrated one-step three-factor authentication.

Nancy Van House: Periscope, Congress and the aliveness of video
Doug Tygar
Why Johnny Can't Encrypt: Doug Tygar's Landmark Paper Stands the Test of Time
Professor Doug Tygar was awarded the 2015 USENIX Security “Test of Time” Award for his 1999 paper “Why Johnny Can't Encrypt: A Usability Evaluation of PGP 5.0.”
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New Research: Computers That Can Identify You by Your Thoughts
Instead of typing your password, in the future you may only have to think your password. A new School of Information study explores the feasibility of brainwave-based computer authentication as a substitute for passwords.