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#HandsOffMyADA Campaign Research Sheds Light on Importance of Accessibility Features and Influencers

July 31, 2019August 9, 2019 Beth Domingo

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

July 31, 2019August 9, 2019 Beth Domingo

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…

HCIL 2019 News and Awards

July 25, 2019July 25, 2019 Beth Domingo

Jason Farman published Delayed Response: The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World, Yale University Press (2018). Ben Shneiderman published Twin-Win Research: Your Guidebook for Accelerating Campus Discovery and Innovation: Second Edition, Morgan & Claypool (2019). Ben…

HCIL Welcomes Beth Domingo

April 17, 2019May 21, 2019 Beth Domingo

In March, Beth Domingo joined the HCIL team as the new coordinator.…

U. of Washington grad students celebrate HCIL Founding Director Ben Shneiderman

February 2, 2019March 5, 2019 Catherine Plaisant

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

December 7, 2018March 5, 2019 Catherine Plaisant

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

December 7, 2018March 5, 2019 Catherine Plaisant

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

October 18, 2018March 5, 2019 Beth Domingo

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

October 18, 2018March 5, 2019 Beth Domingo

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

May 10, 2018May 29, 2019 Anne

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.…