I'm Adam Hyland, a PhD student working in Charlotte Lee's lab in the department of Human Centered Design and Engineering at the University of Washington. I am interested in how communities of practice (often but not always engineering communities) coordinate around standards, standards processes, and things which look a bit like standards but aren’t. I care a lot about making the invisible parts of systems all around us easier to understand. Not just so we become better informed (which is cool) but so we are equipped to play, break, and transform those systems (which is way cooler).

I teach Information Visualization, a complex and tool-laden topic like so much in Human-Computer Interaction. My approach--which I feel helps students remain curious in a space like this--is to show that struggling with tools (many of which represent thousands upon thousands of person-hours of work) is not their fault. Really excellent visualization and in many ways, the kinds of personal growth we sometimes call 'learning', can only occur if we productively struggle together.

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Contact: achyland @ UW 'dot' edu