HCIL Welcomes Beth Domingo
In March, Beth Domingo joined the HCIL team as the new coordinator.…
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U. of Washington grad students celebrate HCIL Founding Director Ben Shneiderman
On January 22, 2019 a team of three students at the University of Washington presented the career of HCIL Founding Director Ben Shneiderman to their master’s degree class (HCDE 501 Theoretical Foundations) in the Department of Human-Centered Design & Engineering.…
HCIL faculty Niklas Elmqvist and Jennifer Golbeck receive ACM Distinguished Member Award
HCIL faculty Niklas Elmqvist and Jennifer Golbeck recognized for contributions that have revolutionized how we live, work and play, and receive Distinguished Member ACM Award…
Six HCIL papers at the IEEE VIS 2018 conference
HCIL had six full papers presented at the IEEE VIS conference, and several other contributions in workshops, panels, and the doctoral colloquium.…
A Motion to Consider: New Evidence for the Value of Animation in Visual Analysis
By Brian Ondov and Niklas Elmqvist
Animation in data visualization has been through it all, from initial hype, to explosion of applications, to skepticism and debunking. If nothing else, though, the topic of animation is persistent, perennially asserting its presence…
A Moment of Reflection: How Symmetry Can Help Us Interpret Charts
By Brian Ondov and Niklas Elmqvist
Symmetry has a long history of study in perceptual psychology, from the Gestalt movement to modern, computerized experiments with flashing point clouds. Researchers have even tested whether this basic element of visual organization is…
PERVADE project featured at a Coalition for National Science Funding event
As the UMD representative at a Coalition for National Science Funding event, Jessica Vitak went to Capitol Hill to talk with Congressional representatives about the pervasive data ethics research she and her PERVADE collaborators are working on.…
Understanding Data by Having Computers and Humans Work Together
By Zhe Cui, Karthik Badam, Adil Yalcin, and Niklas Elmqvist
Understanding data using computer data science tools can be seen as a collaboration between the analyst and the computer. Most data tools put the analyst in the driver’s seat to…
Advanced Transportation Lab is a long term partner of HCIL
At the University of Maryland’s Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory (CATT LAB), more than 100 engineers, developers, researchers and students work to provide officials with actionable insight that can help keep transportation systems running smoothly. Housed in the A.…
Druin Named ACM Fellow
Allison Druin has been named an ACM 2016 Fellow.…