October 2018 - change - Mailing Lists

October 29th Digital Financial Services Workshop
by Jennifer Rose Webster 16 Oct '18

16 Oct '18

Dear All, Please join us on Monday, October 29th for the Fourth University of Washington Digital Financial Services Workshop: "Gender and Digital Financial Services." The format of the workshop is a half day from 9 am to 1 pm, featuring presentations by researchers who are committed to understanding how and why people engage in financial practices and to making financial inclusion attainable for everyone. Speakers will examine topics including technology use in the family, barriers to the adoption of digital financial services, and digitizing payments in a variety of contexts. Location: University of Washington - Seattle Campus; Paul G. Allen Computer Science & Engineering, Room CSE 691 (Gates Commons) Light refreshments and coffee available at 8:30 am Feel free to share with your colleagues or anyone else who might be interested in attending. If you would like to attend please RSVP to jenniweb(a)cs.washington.edu. Let me know if you have any questions in the meantime! Best, -- *Jen Webster* *Research Coordinator, **Digital Financial Services Research Group* *Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering* University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-2350 jenniweb(a)cs.washington.edu

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Re: [change] UW Change Seminar Tuesday, Oct 16: Isabel Carrera Zamanillo
by Philip Garrison 16 Oct '18

16 Oct '18

Starting in an hour and a half! -Philip On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 11:44 AM Philip Garrison <philipmg(a)cs.washington.edu> wrote: > Please join us for the Change Seminar tomorrow *Tuesday 10/16/2018 *in *JHN > 111.* > > *Who:* Isabel Carrera Zamanillo, UW College of the Environment > *What:* Foodways at the intersection of environmental and cultural > identities > *When: *Tuesday, Oct 16th, 12-1pm > *Where: *Johnson Hall 111 > * Abstract: Foodways at the intersection of environmental and cultural > identities* > In face of global threats such as climate change, environmental policies > around the world have adopted universalistic positions rooted American > standards in nature conservation. Unfortunately, mainstream environmental > values do not represent the reality of local communities, especially those > located in the global south. As an alternative to giving voice to > silenced communities and as a continuation of my doctoral research, I > plan to implement a new photovoice project that integrates protocols used > in participatory photo mapping. The main goal of this project is to > generate a community-based analysis of traditional foodways of Latinx > families in the Seattle metropolitan area to provide a better understanding > of the link between cultural and ecological values. Furthermore, this > approach can be used to explore issues regarding food security and food > sovereignty, as well as to record the participants’ knowledge regarding > their natural and built environments. This research constitutes an attempt > to study socio-ecological systems from an interdisciplinary perspective and > integrate them into the context of social and environmental justice > initiatives. > > > *Bio:* > Dr. Isabel Carrera Zamanillo has over a decade of non-profit and community > organizing experience. Currently, Isabel works for the College of the > Environment Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the University > of Washington, promoting a more inclusive and collaborative climate that > expands educational opportunities for all. Formerly, she worked at the > Washington NASA Space Grant Consortium, creating culturally responsive > material in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > education. Isabel’s academic interests revolve around the study of how > scientific practices transform and are transformed by local and global > sociocultural factors. Her experience working in environmental > justice-related projects in Mexico and the United States has allowed her > to collaborate in sustainable development project inside and outside > academia. Isabel’s main goal is to become a bridge builder between the > scientific and non-scientific communities by promoting an active and > collaborative participation to create solutions for environmental > problems. > _______________________________________________ > change mailing list > change(a)change.washington.edu > https://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change >

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UW Change Seminar Tuesday, Oct 16: Isabel Carrera Zamanillo
by Philip Garrison 15 Oct '18

15 Oct '18

Please join us for the Change Seminar tomorrow *Tuesday 10/16/2018 *in *JHN 111.* *Who:* Isabel Carrera Zamanillo, UW College of the Environment *What:* Foodways at the intersection of environmental and cultural identities *When: *Tuesday, Oct 16th, 12-1pm *Where: *Johnson Hall 111 * Abstract: Foodways at the intersection of environmental and cultural identities* In face of global threats such as climate change, environmental policies around the world have adopted universalistic positions rooted American standards in nature conservation. Unfortunately, mainstream environmental values do not represent the reality of local communities, especially those located in the global south. As an alternative to giving voice to silenced communities and as a continuation of my doctoral research, I plan to implement a new photovoice project that integrates protocols used in participatory photo mapping. The main goal of this project is to generate a community-based analysis of traditional foodways of Latinx families in the Seattle metropolitan area to provide a better understanding of the link between cultural and ecological values. Furthermore, this approach can be used to explore issues regarding food security and food sovereignty, as well as to record the participants’ knowledge regarding their natural and built environments. This research constitutes an attempt to study socio-ecological systems from an interdisciplinary perspective and integrate them into the context of social and environmental justice initiatives. *Bio:* Dr. Isabel Carrera Zamanillo has over a decade of non-profit and community organizing experience. Currently, Isabel works for the College of the Environment Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the University of Washington, promoting a more inclusive and collaborative climate that expands educational opportunities for all. Formerly, she worked at the Washington NASA Space Grant Consortium, creating culturally responsive material in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education. Isabel’s academic interests revolve around the study of how scientific practices transform and are transformed by local and global sociocultural factors. Her experience working in environmental justice-related projects in Mexico and the United States has allowed her to collaborate in sustainable development project inside and outside academia. Isabel’s main goal is to become a bridge builder between the scientific and non-scientific communities by promoting an active and collaborative participation to create solutions for environmental problems.

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Re: [change] UW Change Seminar Tuesday, Oct 9: Jon Froehlich
by Philip Garrison 09 Oct '18

09 Oct '18

The first Change seminar of the quarter starts at noon today in Johnson Hall 111! Johnson Hall is north of Drumheller fountain, across the way from Mary Gates Hall. -Philip On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 4:29 PM Philip Garrison <philipmg(a)cs.washington.edu> wrote: > Please join us Tuesday for the first Change seminar of the new academic > year! We will be in *Johnson Hall* *111 *this quarter. > > *Who:* Jon Froehlich, UW CSE > *What:* Project Sidewalk: Mapping the Accessibility of the World through > Google Street View > *When: Tuesday, Oct 9th, 12-1pm* > *Where: **Johnson Hall 111* > > *Project Sidewalk: Mapping the Accessibility of the World through Google > Street View* > Digital maps such as Google Maps, Waze, and Yelp have transformed the way > people travel and access information about the physical world. While these > systems contain terabytes of data about road networks and points of > interest (POIs), their information about physical accessibility is > commensurately poor. GIS websites like Axsmap.com, Wheelmap.org, and > AccessTogether.org aim to address this problem by collecting > location-based accessibility information provided by volunteers (i.e., > crowdsourcing). While these efforts are important and commendable, their > value propositions are intrinsically tied to the amount and quality of data > they collect. In a recent review of accessibility-oriented GIS sites, Ding > et al. found that most suffered from serious data sparseness issues. One > key limiting factor is the reliance on local populations with physical > experience of a place for data collection. While local users who report > data are likely to be reliable, the dependence on in situ reporting > dramatically limits scalability—both who can supply data and how much data > they can easily supply. > > In contrast, we are exploring a different approach embodied in a new > interactive tool called Project Sidewalk (http://projectsidewalk.io) > which enables online crowdworkers to contribute physical-world > accessibility information by virtually walking through city streets in > Google Street View (GSV)—similar to a first-person video game. Rather than > pulling solely from local populations, our potential pool of users scales > to anyone with an Internet connection and a web browser. In this talk, I > will describe the design of Project Sidewalk and a recent 18-month > deployment study in Washington DC. I will close with a discussion of our > current and future work investigating correlates to urban accessibility, > training machine learning algorithms to automatically assess accessibility, > and interactive tools that create better transparency about accessible > infrastructure. Our overarching goal is to transform how accessibility data > is collected and visualized. > > *Bio:* http://www.cs.umd.edu/~jonf/ > I received my Phd in Computer Science from the University of Washington in > December 2011 where I was a Microsoft Research Graduate Fellow and the 2010 > College of Engineering "Graduate Innovator of the Year." My PhD > dissertation entitled "Sensing and Feedback of Everyday Activities to > Promote Environmental Behaviors" won numerous awards including the 2012 > University of Washington Distinguished Dissertation Award and an honorable > mention for the national 2012 Council of Graduate Schools Distinguished > Dissertation Award in Mathematics, Physical Sciences, and Engineering. > > At UW, I was co-advised by James Landay and Shwetak Patel. I also have an > MS in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, > Irvine where I was advised by Paul Dourish. During my graduate studies, I > was fortunate to intern at a number of great research labs including > Telefonica Research in Barcelona, Microsoft Research in Redmond, and Intel > Research in Seattle. > > > We will try to get a livestream up for this talk. > _______________________________________________ > change mailing list > change(a)change.washington.edu > http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change >

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Ben Lok (UF) Visit - Tue 10/09
by Aditya Sankar 09 Oct '18

09 Oct '18

Hello, Ben Lok <https://www.lokben.com/>, Professor at University of Florida is visiting on Tuesday, Oct 9, for a UW Reality Lab guest lecture. He will talk about his VR for the Social Good <http://www.vrforthesocialgood.com/> initiative, which is an educational program that connects *seekers* (researchers, non-profits), who are seeking solutions to social good issues, with *solvers* (e.g. students) who could solve problems by creating stories/apps/experiences in Virtual Reality. You are invited to attend the talk which is at 1:30pm on Oct 9 in GLD 322 (Gould hall). Flyer attached. If you are interested in meeting with Ben 1-1 before or after the talk, please sign up here: https://reserve.cs.washington.edu/visitor/week.php?year=2018&month=10&day=0… (We have reserved room CSE678 for meetings, if you are located outside of CSE. Let me know in case there are any issues with signup) Thanks! Aditya Sankar UW Reality Lab <https://realitylab.uw.edu/>

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UW Change Seminar Tuesday, Oct 9: Jon Froehlich
by Philip Garrison 05 Oct '18

05 Oct '18

Please join us Tuesday for the first Change seminar of the new academic year! We will be in *Johnson Hall* *111 *this quarter. *Who:* Jon Froehlich, UW CSE *What:* Project Sidewalk: Mapping the Accessibility of the World through Google Street View *When: Tuesday, Oct 9th, 12-1pm* *Where: **Johnson Hall 111* *Project Sidewalk: Mapping the Accessibility of the World through Google Street View* Digital maps such as Google Maps, Waze, and Yelp have transformed the way people travel and access information about the physical world. While these systems contain terabytes of data about road networks and points of interest (POIs), their information about physical accessibility is commensurately poor. GIS websites like Axsmap.com, Wheelmap.org, and AccessTogether.org aim to address this problem by collecting location-based accessibility information provided by volunteers (i.e., crowdsourcing). While these efforts are important and commendable, their value propositions are intrinsically tied to the amount and quality of data they collect. In a recent review of accessibility-oriented GIS sites, Ding et al. found that most suffered from serious data sparseness issues. One key limiting factor is the reliance on local populations with physical experience of a place for data collection. While local users who report data are likely to be reliable, the dependence on in situ reporting dramatically limits scalability—both who can supply data and how much data they can easily supply. In contrast, we are exploring a different approach embodied in a new interactive tool called Project Sidewalk (http://projectsidewalk.io) which enables online crowdworkers to contribute physical-world accessibility information by virtually walking through city streets in Google Street View (GSV)—similar to a first-person video game. Rather than pulling solely from local populations, our potential pool of users scales to anyone with an Internet connection and a web browser. In this talk, I will describe the design of Project Sidewalk and a recent 18-month deployment study in Washington DC. I will close with a discussion of our current and future work investigating correlates to urban accessibility, training machine learning algorithms to automatically assess accessibility, and interactive tools that create better transparency about accessible infrastructure. Our overarching goal is to transform how accessibility data is collected and visualized. *Bio:* http://www.cs.umd.edu/~jonf/ I received my Phd in Computer Science from the University of Washington in December 2011 where I was a Microsoft Research Graduate Fellow and the 2010 College of Engineering "Graduate Innovator of the Year." My PhD dissertation entitled "Sensing and Feedback of Everyday Activities to Promote Environmental Behaviors" won numerous awards including the 2012 University of Washington Distinguished Dissertation Award and an honorable mention for the national 2012 Council of Graduate Schools Distinguished Dissertation Award in Mathematics, Physical Sciences, and Engineering. At UW, I was co-advised by James Landay and Shwetak Patel. I also have an MS in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine where I was advised by Paul Dourish. During my graduate studies, I was fortunate to intern at a number of great research labs including Telefonica Research in Barcelona, Microsoft Research in Redmond, and Intel Research in Seattle. We will try to get a livestream up for this talk.

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No Change Today (Planning Meeting)
by Matthew Johnson 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

Hello Change! Welcome back to a beautiful autumn day! The Change seminar will be happening Tuesdays at noon as usual this quarter, featuring a mix of talks and activities related to technology and social good. We'll be taking a break this week though to allow the coordinating team to meet in person and plan out the rest of the year. If you're interested in being involved with the administration of Change, let me know, otherwise we'll plan on seeing you next week! With Gratitude, -Matt Johnson & the Change admin team

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Call for Assistant Teaching Professor in Technology and Social Change
by Jessica Lawrence 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

***Sent on behalf of Department Chair Julie Bettie*** Dear Colleagues, The Sociology Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is pleased to announce the following assistant teaching professor position. Thanks in advance for sharing this call with your networks and colleagues. Best regards, Jessica Lawrence Administrative Manager Sociology Department UCSC http://sociology.ucsc.edu/index.html === *UC Santa Cruz: Assistant Teaching Professor of Technology and Social Change* *(Job #JPF00635)* *The Sociology Department <http://sociology.ucsc.edu/index.html> at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) invites applications for an Assistant Teaching Professor position. We seek candidates whose expertise includes practical experience and research at the intersection of technology and social change, particularly the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to help address critical social and environmental problems. Examples of experience and expertise could include: the use of ICTs in international development work (ICT4D); appropriate technology; non-profit technology use and management; links between technology and activism; interactive data visualizations; participatory mapping, photo-voice, and other participatory research and community development processes. Experience in project management, monitoring and evaluation, and social entrepreneurship is also desirable.* *The successful candidate will be expected to primarily teach at the undergraduate level and mentor students in applied project development. The position will involve working directly in the Everett Program (www.everettprogram.org <http://www.everettprogram.org>), an innovative program housed in the Sociology Department but open to students across campus, that empowers students to take direct action on issues of social justice and environmental sustainability in partnership with community-based organizations in both the U.S. and around the globe, using digital tools to help support their work. The successful candidate must be committed to the equity and inclusion goals of the Everett Program, be an excellent teacher, and able to work with students, faculty, staff and community partners from a wide range of social and cultural backgrounds. We are especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through their teaching, professional activity, and service.* *The Assistant Teaching Professor title confers the rights and responsibilities of membership in the Academic Senate and has the payroll title Lecturer with Potential for Security of Employment (LPSOE). An LPSOE is eligible for promotion to "Security of Employment," which is analogous to tenure.* *ACADEMIC TITLE:* Assistant Teaching Professor (Lecturer with Potential for Security of Employment). *SALARY:* *Commensurate with qualifications and experience; academic year (nine-month basis).* *BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:* Ph.D. (or equivalent foreign degree) in sociology or related social science field, or in a technical field, such as computer science, with a strong focus on technology for the public good, along with teaching experience that could be demonstrated by college-level teaching and/or applied professional workshops and training programs. Degree requirements are expected to be completed by 12/31/18. *POSITION AVAILABLE:* *January 1, 2019. Degree requirements must be completed by 12/31/18 for employment beyond that date.* *APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS:* Applications are accepted via the UCSC Academic Recruit online system; all documents and materials must be submitted as PDFs. *Apply at* *https://recruit.ucsc.edu/apply/JPF00635 <https://recruit.ucsc.edu/apply/JPF00635>* Please refer to Position #*JPF00635-19* in all correspondence. *Documents/Materials:* --A letter of application (required) --Curriculum vitae (required) --Statement addressing contributions to diversity through professional and scholarly activities, teaching, and/or service (required). Guidelines on diversity statements can be viewed at *https://senate.ucsc.edu/committees/caad-committee-on-affirmative-action-and-diversity/DivStateGuidelines.pdf <https://senate.ucsc.edu/committees/caad-committee-on-affirmative-action-and…>* . --Samples of published material (1-3) (e.g. articles and/or book chapters) --Statement of teaching pedagogy (required) --Sample course syllabus (required) --Teaching evaluations (up to 3) (preferred) *Reference Requirement* Applications must include confidential letters of recommendation* (a minimum of three are required and a maximum of three will be accepted). Please note that your references, or dossier service, will submit their confidential letters directly to the UC Recruit System. *All letters will be treated as confidential per University of California policy and California state law. For any reference letter provided via a third party (i.e., dossier service, career center), direct the author to UCSC’s confidentiality statement at http://apo.ucsc.edu/confstm.htm. *RECRUITMENT PERIOD* Full consideration will be given to applications completed by *November 2, 2018*. Applications received after this date will be considered only if the position has not been filled.

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