November 17, 2025 The overwhelm people can feel when suddenly immersed in a new culture — a flurry of unfamiliar values, aesthetics, and language — is known as culture shock. In her new book, “Digital Culture Shock: Who Creates Technology and Why This Matters,” Reinecke argues that technology can similarly disorient, discomfit, and alienate people. Reinecke uses the phrase to describe “the experience and influence of actively or passively using technology that is not in line with one’s cultural practices or norms.” The book explores…
Category: Machine Learning Research
Articles about machine learning research being done by CREATE members and partners.
Blind and Low Vision Teens Join CREATE through YES2 Summer Internships
September 3, 2025 The Washington Department of Services for the Blind (DSB) program, called Youth Employment Solutions 2, provides experience, instruction, and paid 5-week summer internships. The students share a house, have job placements, and learn skills in using public transportation for travel to work sites. When ready, the students commute to their jobs independently. Statistics indicate that more than 70% of blind adults are either unemployed or under-employed, in jobs unequal to their education. However, evidence also indicates that…
Winter 2023 CREATE Research Showcase
At the December 2023 CREATE Research Showcase, students from CSE 493 and other CREATE researchers shared their work with faculty, students, and community partners.
Leah Findlater, Associate Director
CREATE Associate Director, Dr. Leah Findlater is interested in how to create technologies that adapt to accommodate individual user needs and preferences, whether to improve basic interactions such as touchscreen text entry or more complex tasks such as working with machine learning models. My research goal is to ensure that the next generation of computing technologies are designed to meet the needs of the broadest range of users.
Jon E. Froehlich, Associate Director
CREATE Associate Director, Dr. Jon E. Froehlich’s research focuses on designing, building, and evaluating interactive technology that addresses high value social issues such as environmental sustainability, computer accessibility, and personalized health and wellness.
Katherine M. Steele, Associate Director
CREATE Associate Director, Dr. Katherine M. Steele’s research focuses on using novel computational and experimental tools to understand human movement and improve treatment and quality of life of individuals with cerebral palsy, stroke, and other neurological disorders. Steele’s research strives to connect engineering and medicine to create solutions that can advance our understanding of human ability, but also translate research results to the clinic and daily life.