curriculum vitae

Human Centered Design & Engineering
University of Washington
garyhs@uw.edu
414 Sieg Hall, Campus Box 352315
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
P: +1 (206) 543 9747
F: +1 (206) 543 9747

Introduction

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at University of Washington.

My research group focuses on understanding, designing, and developing technologies that encourage people to communicate and interact in ways that are self- and welfare-improving. We extend and build on theories from a number of fields, including psychology, communication and economics. Our application areas include behavior change, online support and Q&A, and civic and local participation.

I was previously faculty at Michigan State University with a joint appointment in Communication and Media and Information. I received my PhD in Human-Computer Interaction from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.

My research has been supported by National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Fulbright, Nokia, Intel, UW ALACRITY Center, and Institute of Translational Health Sciences.

I have been an academic consultant on the Incentives Advisory Board at Twitter, and the Advisory Board at Rulai.


Interested in Research?

I work with graduate and undergraduate students who are intersted in human-computer interaction, social computing, behavior change and related topics. Send me an email to schedule a 30 minutes meeting. Please include:

  • Why Me? There are a lot of great faculty in HCDE at UW. Why do you want to work with me specifically? Is there some interest you have related to my recent publications?
  • Your Background and Skills. Are you good at design? Can you code? Are you a good writer? Have you conducted experiments? Can you interview? Send me some samples or a link to your portfolio. I work with students with a variety of backgrounds. This info will help me decide if there are any projects that you might be able to contribute to.

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Current Students & Collaborators

PhD Students
Ruoxi (Anna) Shang
Ruican Zhong
Donghoon Shin
Hyeonjeong Byeon

Alumni

PhD Students & Post-Docs
Spencer Williams (2023), Assistant Teaching Professor @ UW Information School
Raina Langevin (2023), NLM Postdoctoral Fellow at UW BIME
Ravi Karkar (2022), Assistant Professor @ UMass Amhearst
Rafal Kocielnik (2021), CI Fellow @ Caltech
Lucas Colusso (2020), Senior Designer @ Microsoft
Elena Agapie (2020), Assistant Professor @ UC Irvine
Mia Minhyang Suh (2020), Senior UX Researcher @ Google

Masters Students
Yennee Chew Design Manager @ Big x Reality
Kerem Özcan Product Analyst @ Uber
Lillian Xiao UX Designer @ VW
Lily Lei Co-Founder @ August Sage
David Wang Engineer @ Google
Karan Gupta Designer @ Google India
Siddhartha Gudipati Senior Interaction Designer @ Google
Nicolas Friederici Senior Researcher @ HIIG

Publication

Ruican Zhong, Donghoon Shin, Rosemary Meza, Predrag Klasnja , Lucas Colusso, Gary Hsieh. CHI 2024: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Donghoon Shin, Lucy L. Wang, Gary Hsieh. CHI 2024: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Himanshu Zade, Spencer Williams, Theresa T. Tran, Christina Smith, Sukrit Venkatagiri, Gary Hsieh, Kate Starbird. Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies

Donghoon Shin, Soomin Kim, Rouxi Shang, Joonhwan Lee, Gary Hsieh. CHI 2023: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Gary Hsieh, Brett A. Halperin, Evan Schmitz, Yen Nee Chew, Yuan-Chi Tseng. CHI 2023: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Brett A. Halperin, Gary Hsieh, Erin McElroy, James Pierce, Daniela K. Rosner. CHI 2023: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Joshua E. Rosen, Sylvia Seo Eun Chang, Spencer Williams, Joy S. Lee, DaHee Han, Nidhi Agrawal, Joseph H. Joo, Gary Hsieh, Katharina Reinecke, Joshua M. Liao. Healthcare

Himanshu Zade, Megan Woodruff, Erika Johnson, Mariah Stanley, Zhennan Zhou, Minh Tu Huynh, Alissa E. Acheson, Gary Hsieh, Kate Starbird. CSCW 2023: ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Spencer Williams, Joy Lee, Brett Halperin, Joshua M. Liao, Gary Hsieh, Katharina Reinecke. Scientific Reports

Spencer Williams, Ridley Jones, Katharina Reinecke, Gary Hsieh. CSCW 2022: ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Elena Agapie, Patricia A. Arean, Gary Hsieh, Sean Munson. CSCW 2022: ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Lubna Razaq, Beth Kolko, Gary Hsieh. DIS 2022: ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

Rafal Kocielnik, Raina Langevin, James S George, Shota Akenaga, Amelia Wang, Darwin P Jones, Alexander Argyle, Callan Fockele, Layla Anderson, Dennis T Hsieh, Kabir Yadav, Herbert C Duber, Gary Hsieh, Andrea L Hartzler. CUI 2021: ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces

Spencer Williams, Gary Hsieh. CSCW 2021: ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Raina Langevin, Ross Lordon, Thi Avrahami, Benjamin Cowan, Tad Hirsch, Gary Hsieh. CHI 2021: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Keri Mallari, Spencer Williams, Gary Hsieh. CHI 2021: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Victoria Palacina, Maria Angela Ferrario, Gary Hsieh, Antti Knutas, Annika Wolff, Jari Porras. IJHCS: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

Jina Suh, Spencer Williams, Jesse R Fann, James Anthony Fogarty, Amy M Bauer, Gary Hsieh. CSCW 2020: ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Tal August, Dallas Card, Gary Hsieh, Noah A Smith, Katharina Reinecke. CHI 2020: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Rafal Kocielnik, Elena Agapie, Alexander Argyle, Dennis T. Hsieh, Kabir Yadav, Breena Taira, Gary Hsieh. AMIA 2019: American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium

Lucas Colusso, Ridley Jones, Sean Munson, Gary Hsieh. CHI 2019: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Ridley Jones, Lucas Colusso, Katharina Reinecke, Gary Hsieh. CHI 2019: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Mia Suh, Gary Hsieh. ASIS&T 2019: Journal of the Associate for Information Science and Technology

Rafal Kocielnik, Os Keyes, Jonathan Morgan, Dario Taraborelli, David McDonald, Gary Hsieh. CSCW 2018: ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Eunice Jun, Gary Hsieh, Katharina Reinecke. CSCW 2018: ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Miki Liu, Austin Wong, Ruhi Pudipeddi, Betty Hou, David Wang, Gary Hsieh. CSCW 2018: ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Rafal Kocielnik, Gary Hsieh, Daniel Avrahami. Studies in Conversational UX Design

Rafal Kocielnik, Lillian Xiao, Daniel Avrahami, Gary Hsieh. IMWUT 2018: PACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies

John Frens, Erin Walker, Gary Hsieh. L@S 2018: ACM Conference on Learning at Scale

Rafal Kocielnik, Daniel Avrahami, Jennifer Marlow, Di Lu, Gary Hsieh. DIS 2018: ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

Lucas Colusso, Tien Do, Gary Hsieh. DIS 2018: ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

Elena Agapie, Bonnie Chinh, Laura R. Pina, Diana Oviedo, Molly C. Welsh, Gary Hsieh, Sean A. Munson. CHI 2018: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Lily Lei, Vishwas Shetty, Karan Gupta, Janine E. Polifka, Glen Markham, Sarah Albee, Carol Collins, Gary Hsieh. AMIA 2017: American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium

Lucas Colusso, Cynthia Bennett, Gary Hsieh, Sean Munson. DIS 2017: ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

Kerem Özcan, Dawn Jorgenson, Christian Richard, Gary Hsieh. CSCW 2017: ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Rafal Kocielnik, Gary Hsieh. CSCW 2017: ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Albert Park, Andrea L Hartzler, Jina Huh, Gary Hsieh, David W McDonald, Wanda Pratt. Journal of Medical Internet Research

Lucas Colusso, Gary Hsieh, Sean A. Munson. CHI 2016: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Minhyang (Mia) Suh, Gary Hsieh. CHI 2016: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Daniel A. Epstein, Felicia Cordeiro, James Fogarty, Gary Hsieh, Sean A. Munson. CHI 2016: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Gary Hsieh, Rafal Kocielnik. CSCW 2016: ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Elena Agapie, Lucas Colusso, Sean Munson, Gary Hsieh. CSCW 2016: ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Mildred A Horodynski, Kami Silk, Gary Hsieh, Alice Hoffman, Mackenzie Robson. BMC Public Health

Jilin Chen, Eben Haber, Ruogu Kang, Gary Hsieh, Jalal Mahmud. ICWSM 2015: International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

Syavash Nobarany, Kellogg S. Booth, Gary Hsieh. JAIST: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Hao-Chuan Wang, Tau-Heng Yeo, Syavash Nobarany, Gary Hsieh. Chinese CHI 2015: International Symposium of Chinese CHI

Shih-Wen Huang, Minhyang (Mia) Suh, Benjamin Mako Hill, Gary Hsieh. CHI 2015: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Gary Hsieh, Jilin Chen, Jalal Mahmud, Jeffrey Nichols. CHI 2014: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Jilin Chen, Gary Hsieh, Jalal Mahmud, Jeffrey Nichols. CSCW 2014: ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Yu-Hao Lee & Gary Hsieh. CHI 2013: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Carolyn Lauckner & Gary Hsieh. CHI 2013: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Gary Hsieh, Youyang Hou, Ian Chen, Khai Truong. CSCW 2013: ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Online Information: Access, Search, and Exchange (2013)
Gary Hsieh & Nicolas Friederici. The Sage Handbook of Digital Technology Research.

Wei Peng & Gary Hsieh. Computers and Human Behavior

Chris Harrison, John Horstman, Gary Hsieh, Scott E. Hudson. CHI 2012: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Gary Hsieh, Robert E. Kraut, Scott E. Hudson. CHI 2012: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Chris Harrison, Gary Hsieh, Karl D.D. Willis, Jodi Forlizzi, Scott E. Hudson. CHI 2011: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Gary Hsieh, Robert E. Kraut, Scott E. Hudson. CHI 2010: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Gary Hsieh. ACM Crossroads

Gary Hsieh, Scott Counts. CHI 2009: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Tara Matthews, Gary Hsieh and Jennifer Mankoff. Awareness Systems: Advances in Theory, Methodology and Design

Gary Hsieh, Robert E. Kraut, Scott E. Hudson and Roberto Weber. CSCW 2008: ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Gary Hsieh, Ian Li, Anind Dey, Jodi Forlizzi and Scott E. Hudson . UBICOMP 2008: International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing

Gary Hsieh, Scott E. Hudson, Robert E. Kraut and Jennifer Lai . CHI 2008: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Gary Hsieh, Karen P. Tang, Wai Y. Low and Jason I. Hong . UBICOMP 2007: International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing

Prioritization in Computer-Mediated Communication: Influences of Urgency, Notification, and Identity (2007 *Best Paper Award)
Laura Dabbish, Gary Hsieh, Scott E. Hudson and Robert E. Kraut . AOM 2007: Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings

Jason Cornwell, Ian Fette, Gary Hsieh et al . HotMobile 2007: IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications

Gary Hsieh, Ken Wood and Abigail Sellen . CHI 2006: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Elizabeth Churchill, Les Nelson and Gary Hsieh . CHI 2006: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pedram Keyani, Gary hsieh, Bilge Mutlu, Matthew Easterday and Jodi Forlizzi . CHI 2005: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Gary Hsieh and Jennifer Mankoff . Berkeley EECS Technical Report

Jennifer Mankoff, Anind K. Dey, Gary Hsieh et al. CHI 2003: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Jennifer Mankoff, Gary Hsieh, Ho C. Hung, Sharon Lee and Elizabeth Nitao . UBICOMP 2002: International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing

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Teaching

Course Info

HCDE 544 (Winter)
Research Methods I (Quantitative)

Introduces experimental, quasi-experimental, and related research methods in human centered design and engineering. Examines the relationship between theory and research, hypothesis testing, experimental designs, modes of observation, sampling, validity, and data analysis and interpretation. Students undertake a research project. Prerequisite: Introductory statistics course.

HCDE 536 (Spring)
Interaction Design and Prototyping

An interface provides the framework, elements, and resources for a “conversation” to take place between people and products. An interface should provide an expectation of what a product can do and how a person can appropriately engage a product in order to take action. This class, you will study and design interfaces, through user-centered design processes.

Directed Research Groups (DRG)
Various Projects

I lead a number of directed research groups. They are a great way to work on a research project and to work with me. For the updated list of DRGs, please refer to this page: www.hcde.washington.edu/research/directed