UW ALACRITY Center

Attention #Postdoc researchers and #PhDAward candidates: CBITs is seeking applicants for our NIMH T32 postdoctoral fellowship to begin July 2026 with training in both mental health and human computer interaction
Apps will be reviewed December 2025!
Learn more: cbits.northwestern.edu/education-an...

A lived informatics model of personal informatics | Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing

Focused on self-tracking, the model has also informed understanding of, and design for, how people engage & disengage with digital mental health tools.

Read the original paper at the link below

Professor Sean Munson and collaborators recognized with a 10-year impact award at UbiComp 2025 A 2015 paper co-authored by HCDE Professor Sean Munson and colleagues has received the Runner-Up 10-Year Impact Paper Award at the ACM UbiComp 2025 conference. The influential work, “A Lived Informati...

Congrats to UWAC investigators @smunson.com and @profjayfo.bsky.social, along with lead author @depstein.net, for recognition of the 10-year impact of "A Lived Informatics Model of Personal Informatics”!

Graduate Certificate in Human Centered Artificial Intelligence Advance your expertise in responsible AI with HCDE’s newest program, starting January 2026.

New from HCDE: Announcing our new Graduate Certificate in Human Centered AI.
Learn to build AI systems that are ethical, equitable, and human-first.
Courses are in the evenings, in-person, from January through September.
Priority application deadline: October 24, 2025.
www.hcde.washington.edu/hcai

Graduate Certificate in Human Centered Artificial Intelligence Advance your expertise in responsible AI with HCDE’s newest program, starting January 2026.

@hcde.uw.edu is launching our new human-centered AI graduate certificate in January, with applications open now and a priority deadline of 24 October. Learn more at www.hcde.washington.edu/hcai

Samira Farah leads with faith and community in public health research - Health Promotion Research Center Samira Farah, MPH ‘25, leads with faith and community showing how cultural expertise is a strength in public health research.

"Samira Farah leads with faith and community in public health research" - a wonderful writeup on UWAC-funded pilot project led by Dr. Lesley Steinman (@uw-hprc.bsky.social) and Najma Mohamed (Neighborhood House)

At @myacbs.bsky.social this week? Check out @smunson.com presenting on "Addressing usability to improve contextual fit" of complex psychosocial innovations" in the 3:15pm session in Edgewood this afternoon!

Great #impsci news if you missed out on registering for the 2025 Summer Institute - we're extending the deadline to June 30 to make sure anyone who wants to attend has the time to find funds, given *the state of things* 👀 Details, and to register: bit.ly/3YJEn9x

HCDE impact: Improving mental healthcare for all Americans with UW’s ALACRITY Center The ALACRITY Center, co-directed by HCDE Professor Sean Munson, is expanding access to quality mental health care by redesigning behavioral interventions to be more effective and accessible to all Ame...

A nice writeup, from the perspective of @uw-hcde.bsky.social, on the impact of our National Institute of Mental Health-funded research in the UW ALACRITY Center.

We are pleased to announce our next call for proposals for pilot study applications in support of UWAC’s mission to address obstacles that prevent quality mental health treatments from reaching many people.

Indication of Interest Deadline: May 12, 2025
Application Deadline: June 9, 2025

Applications in human-centered design: Shared-Decision Making for mental health treatment in primary care Shared Decision Making (SDM) is heralded as a standard for patient-centered care, but implementation of SDM in routine mental health practice has prov…

New paper from ALACRITY 1.0, "Applications in human-centered design: Shared-Decision Making for mental health treatment in primary care", led by Katie Tirtanadi, on the tailored design of implementation strategies for shared decision making for Veterans' mental health.

New paper on how people assemble mental health toolkits from a range of apps and other tools, led by Ellie Burgess and in collaboration with the ALACRITY Center at the Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies at Northwestern.

Congrats to UW ALACRITY Center leadership team member James Fogarty and all the awardees!

While this is not a usual year (!!), it is that time when we open registration for the UW #ImplementationScience in #GlobalHealth Summer Institute. Share widely, tell your #impsci friends, and register soon to secure your spot! Learn more about the Institute plus register here: bit.ly/3YJEn9x

Have you wanted a research method that combines the interactivity of an interview with the structure and scale of a survey? @smunson.com contributes to an upcoming #chi2025 paper on "Micro-narratives: A Scalable Method for Eliciting Stories of People’s Lived Experience" osf.io/preprints/ps...

Harnessing Human-Centered Design for Evidence-Based Psychosocial Interventions and Implementation Strategies in Community Settings: Protocol for Redesign to Improve Usability, Engagement, and Appropri... Background: Although substantial progress has been made in establishing evidence-based psychosocial clinical interventions and implementation strategies for mental health, translating research into pr...

Newly published protocol paper for the renewal of the UW ALACRITY Center: Harnessing Human-Centered Design for Evidence-Based Psychosocial Interventions and Implementation Strategies in Community Settings: Protocol for Redesign to Improve Usability, Engagement, and Appropriateness

Upcoming special issue of ACM Health on Human Centered Computing in Healthcare. Rolling initial submissions, until May.

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Excited to share our new paper, Human-Centered Design to Enhance Implementation and Impact in Health, published in the Annual Review of Public Health.

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...