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Jacob Wobbrock and co-authors L. Zhang, Z. J. Zhang, G. Clepper, F.M. Li, P. Carrington, and L. Findlater’s paper titled “Toward Expressive Visual Content by Blind Creators Through AI Support,” was accepted to the  

Hayoung Jung (CSE BS/MS student), advised by Tanu Mitra, won the Outstanding Master's Thesis Award at the 2025 Allen School Graduation Celebration for his thesis titled: "Towards Inclusive Technologies: Examining Social Values and Harms in Large-Scale Sociotechnical Systems." 

Ben Lee and co-authors Trevor Owens and Jonah Estess’s paper titled “” was published in   

Sandy Littletree and co-authors Tessa Campbell and Mandi Harris (PhD Student)’s paper titled “Learning and Teaching Together: Relational Approaches to Supporting Native Scholars in Academia” was presented at the   

Wanda Pratt and co-authors Julia C. Dunbar (iSchool PhD Alum), Jily Jeffs, Chelsea Ng, Sanaa Sayed, Jodie Smith and Ari Pollack’s paper titled “My Kidney T.R.E.K. - Thinking, Reflecting, and Empowering Kidney Transplant Patients, through technology,” was accepted to the   

Hyeyoung Ryu (iSchool PhD Alum), Sungha Kang (iSchool MSIM Alum) and Wanda Pratt’s paper titled “Mitigating Stigma and Fostering Support: Improving AI-Generated Counterspeech for Microaggressions” was accepted to the  

Wanda Pratt and co-author Emma McDonnell’s paper titled “From Chronic Health Condition to Disability Identity: Opportunities for Health Informatics Engagement” was accepted to the  

Lisa Dirks (iSchool PhD Alum) and co-authors Victoria BearBow and Wanda Pratt’s paper titled “Enhancing Health Research Results Dissemination for American Indian and Alaska Native Communities through Indigenous Community-Centered Design” was accepted to the  

Jacob Wobbrock and co-author M. J. Kneitmix’s paper titled “From Screen Reading to Scene Reading in SceneVR: Touch-Based Interaction Techniques for Use in Virtual Reality by Blind and Low-Vision Users” was accepted to the   

Jacob Wobbrock and co-authors Z.J. Zhang, H. Li, C.M. Yu, F. Faruqi, J. Xie, G. S-H Kim, M. Fan, A. G. Forbes, A. Guo, and L. He’s paper titled “A11yShape: AI-assisted 3-D modeling for blind and low-vision programmers,” was accepted to the  

Chirag Shah gave an invited talk titled “” at the Institute for Research in Informatics at Toulouse. 

Tanu Mitra was a panelist for “Political Conflicts in Online Platforms in the Era of Gen-AI" at the at at the  

Tanu Mitra was a panelist at the in Seattle’s AI House, .  

Ben Lee was featured on the CBC radio program As It Happens in a segment titled “” The interview aired as part of CBC’s nightly programming.