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Specializations

  • Organization and Preservation of Multimedia and Interactive Media
  • Play, Learning, and Creativity Support
  • Cultural Knowledge and Digital Heritage

Research Areas

Courses

  • - Participatory Design In Libraries

Biography

Michele Newman is a PhD candidate in the Information School at the University of Washington advised by Dr. Jin Ha Lee and Dr. Jason Yip. Broadly, her research explores how communities produce, organize, and preserve cultural knowledge through interactive media, ranging from from creativity support tools to video games. Drawing on frameworks from Library & Information Science as well as Human–Computer Interaction, her work aims to reframe digital interactive environments not just as tools for expression, but as lasting knowledge infrastructures.

Education

  • MLIS, Library and Information Science, University of Denver, 2022
  • MM, Music Theory, Indiana University, 2019
  • BM, Music Composition and Theory (Double Major), University of North Texas, 2017

Publications and Contributions

  • Conference Proceeding
    (2025)
    Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, pp. 1298-1312 Authors: Yue Fu, Michele Newman, Lewis Going, Qiuzi Feng, Jin Ha Lee
  • Curricula
    (2025)
    Authors: Michele Newman, Runhua Zhao, S. Hu, P. Batalov, J. Lollo, Christopher Coward, Jin Ha Lee, Jason Yip
  • Report
    (2025)
    Authors: Michele Newman, M. Benson, T. Hilt, K. Johnson, C. Kennedy, K. J Lee, C. McGrew, Jin Ha Lee, Jason Yip
  • Conference Paper
    Human-AI music process: a dataset of AI-supported songwriting processes from the AI song contest. (2024)
    Proceedings of the 25th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference Authors: Jin Ha Lee, Lidia J. Morris, Rebecca Leger, Michele Newman, John Ashley Burgoyne, Ryan Groves, Natasha Mangal
  • Conference Paper
    (2024)
    Designing Interactive Systems Conference, pp. 1805-1822 Authors: Aayushi Dangol, Michele Newman, Robert Wolfe, Jin Ha Lee, Julie A. Kientz, Jason Yip, Caroline Pitt
  • Conference Paper
    Mediating Culture: Cultivating Socio-cultural Understanding of AI in Children through Participatory Design (2024)
    Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '24), pp. 1805-1822 Authors: Aayushi Dangol, Michele Newman, Robert Wolfe, Jin Ha Lee, Julie A. Kientz, Jason Yip, Caroline Pitt
  • Conference Paper
    Mediating culture: Cultivating socio-cultural understanding of AI in children through participatory design (2024)
    Proceedings of ACM Designing Interactive Systems, pp. 1805 - 1822 Authors: A. Dangol, Michele Newman, Robert Wolfe, Jin Ha Lee, Julie A. Kientz, Jason Yip, Caroline Pitt
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2024)
    Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 61(1), pp. 277-289, ISBN/ISSN: 2373-9231 Authors: Michele Newman, Drew Favors, Lane Koughan, Jin Ha Lee
  • Conference Paper
    Participatory media and game preservation: a taxonomy of Youtube game-related content. (2024)
    Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 61(1), pp. 277-289 Authors: Michele Newman, Drew Favors, Lane Koughan, Jin Ha Lee
  • Conference Paper
    (2024)
    Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference Authors: Michele Newman, Lidia Morris, Jun Kato, Masataka Goto, Jason Yip, Jin Ha Lee
  • Conference Paper
    Purposeful play: evaluation and co-design of casual music creation applications with children. (2024)
    Proceedings of the 25th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference Authors: Michele Newman, Lidia Morris, Jun Kato, Masataka Goto, Jason Yip, Jin Ha Lee
  • Conference Paper
    (2024)
    CHIPLAY 2024 Authors: Johnny Cho, Michele Newman, Caroline Pitt, Jason Yip, Jin Ha Lee
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2024)
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 8(CHI PLAY), pp. 1-29, ISBN/ISSN: 2573-0142 Authors: Johnny Cho, Michele Newman, Caroline Pitt, Jason Yip, Jin Ha Lee
  • Conference Paper
    You are titled!: leveraging tabletop gaming to manage tile and strengthen team dynamics in esports (2024)
    Proceedings of CHI PLAY, 8(Unknown Issue), pp. 29 Authors: Yeonhee Cho, Michele Newman, Caroline Pitt, Jason Yip, Jin Ha Lee
  • Conference Paper
    “I want it to talk like Darth Vader”: Helping children construct creative self-efficacy with generative AI (2024)
    Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Authors: Michele Newman, Kaiwen Sun, Ilena B Gasperina, Grace Y Shin, Matthew Kyle Pedraja, Ritesh Kanchi, Maia B Song, Rannie Li, Jin Ha Lee, Jason Yip
  • Conference Extended Abstract
    (2023)
    Proceedings of the 2023 Digital Games Research Association International Conference: The Limits and Margins of Games Authors: Michele Newman, Jin Ha Lee
  • Conference Paper
    (2023)
    Proceedings of the Digital Games Research Association Conference 2023 Authors: Johnny Cho, Michele Newman, Lidia Morris, Lane Koughan, Jason Yip, Jin Ha Lee
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2023)
    Information and Learning Sciences, 124(1/2), pp. 25-47, ISBN/ISSN: 2398-5348 Authors: Peter Organisciak, Michele Newman, David Eby, Selcuk Acar, Denis Dumas
  • Conference Paper
    (2023)
    Proceedings of the 24th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) Conference Authors: Michele Newman, Lidia Morris, Jin Ha Lee
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2023)
    The Journal of Creative Behavior, 57(3), pp. 419-438, ISBN/ISSN: 0022-0175 Authors: Denis Dumas, Selcuk Acar, Kelly Berthiaume, Peter Organisciak, David Eby, Katalin Grajzel, Theadora Vlaamster, Michele Newman, Melanie Carrera