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Daniel Votipka, a CS PhD student in the Maryland Cybersecurity Center (MC2) and HCIL is a recipient of the 2020 John Karat Usable Privacy and Security Student Research Award for his excellence in research and dedication to mentorship and community…

Jonathan Lazar was named the winner of the 2020 ACM SIGACCESS Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computing and Accessibility. It is the highest award given by ACM SIGACCESS (Special Interest Groups on Accessible Computing), and it’s only given once every…

There is no doubt that 2019–2020 is yet another fruitful year for HCIL. All year round, faculty, staff, and students in the HCIL have been receiving great news, from best research paper awards at top research venues to research grants…

Being the oldest human-computer interaction (HCI) laboratory in North America (founded in 1983), the HCIL at University of Maryland has a long and rich history of transforming the experience people have with new technologies. One way we do this is…

Catherine Plaisant, Associate Director of Research of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab and a senior research scientist in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS), has been recognized by the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on…

At the end of October this year, visualization researchers from all around the world will gather at the Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver, BC, Canada for the annual celebration of world-class visualization research known as IEEE VIS. The Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at University…

An Interview with Ben Shneiderman, by Jessica Hullman in ACM Interactions ACM Interactions magazine is a mirror on the human-computer interaction and interaction design communities and beyond. It is a multiplicity of conversations, collaborations, relationships, and new discoveries focusing on how and…

by Brooke Auxier…Since its inception in 2006, Twitter has been popularized as a space for the sharing of daily musing, #hottakes, and live-tweeting professional sports games and award shows. But the platform has also served as an effective environment for…

Falling Trees and Failing Reports by Calvin Yau… If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? Analogously, if an analyst writes a report about data and no one…