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CHI 2024 roundup: UMD’s HCIL has another strong showing at CHI with 15 papers and two honorable mentions
The ACM conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) is the premiere conference for HCI research, and each year includes numerous papers and presentations from HCIL members. This year is no different, with 18 entries from HCIL faculty and students. Across 15 papers, two workshops, and a SIG (special interest groups), and one interactive…
HCIL members publish 19 papers, win multiple awards at CHI 2023
The 2023 ACM conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) features contributions from a large number of HCIL members. Congratulations to the 15 HCIL faculty and 17 students who had papers, workshops, and SIGs (special interest groups) accepted at this year’s conference. We extend a special congratulations to the three papers that received honorable…
Catherine Plaisant, Jesse Grosjean and Ben Bederson recognized with IEEE VIS “Test of Time Award” for their 2002 work on zoomable tree browsers
On October 18, 2022 Catherine Plaisant, Jesse Grosjean and Ben Bederson will receive the IEEE Infovis Test of Time Award from their 2002 work on zoomable tree browsers, which was published in the InfoVis 2002 conference. IEEE VIS is the premier conference on information visualization, scientific visualization, and visual analytics.The Test of Time Award recognizes papers…
HCIL Faculty and Student Participation at CHI 2022
CHI 2022 marks a return to an in-person format for the biggest HCI research conference, and the HCIL will be well represented at this year’s event, which will be held April 30-May 5, 2022 in New Orleans, LA, USA. Now that the program has been released, we are proud to announce that nine papers, two…
Ben Shneiderman and Ben Bederson recognized with IEEE VIS “Test of Time Award” for their 2001 work on Ordered Treemap Layouts
On October 26 Ben Shneiderman, Ben Bederson and Martin Wattenberg will receive the IEEE VIS Test of Time Award from their 2001 work on treemaps, which was published in the InfoVis conference. The greatly expanded IEEE VIS conference has unified the the conferences on information visualization, scientific visualization, and visual analytics.This award is an important recognition…
Niklas Elmqvist passes the baton to Jessica Vitak, new director of HCIL
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