The User Empowerment Lab
Lab Members
Alexis Hiniker
Principle Investigator
UW Information School
Ethical design of ubiquitous systems
JaeWon Kim
PhD Candidate
UW Information School
Designing and building social technologies for meaningful social connections; digital youth
Longjie Guo
PhD Student
UW Information School
Ubiquitous computing for wellbeing
Emmi Russo
PhD Student
UW Information School
Developmentally supportive digital play; parent-preschooler joint media engagement; child-computer interaction
Chris (Yue) Fu
PhD Student
UW Information School
Human-AI collaboration
Robert Wolfe
PhD Candidate
UW Information School
Fair and reliable AI; open models; small-scale alternatives to proprietary AI; AI bias
Marx Wang
PhD Student
UW Information School
Generative AI for teens and young adults
Alumni
Ishita Chordia
Program Manager, Georgia Institute of Technology
Center for Urban Research
Kai Lukoff
Assistant Professor, Santa Clara University
Department of Computer Science
Ying-Yu Chen
Assistant Professor, National Chiao Tung University
Department of Communication and Technology
Amanda Baughan
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington
Information School
Camille Cobb
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne
Department of Computer Science
Past and Current Undergraduate and Master's Students