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Catherine Plaisant Honored with ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award
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 Computer Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI) with its Lifetime Service Award. Read more>
Ben Shneiderman Inducted into IEEE Visualization Academy
The Vis Academy was established this year to recognize significant accomplishments by researchers in computer visualization who directly bolster the endeavors of the entire field. Ben Shneiderman (left in photo), distinguished university professor emeritus and HCI pioneer and first director of HCIL, and Amitabh Varshney(right), professor and dean of the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences,…
Visualizing in Vancouver
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 of Maryland will be among them with a strong showing of six full papers at…
The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures
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 why we interact with the designed world of technologies. Interactions has a special voice that lies between…
#HandsOffMyADA Campaign Research Sheds Light on Importance of Accessibility Features and Influencers
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 social activism and engagement around important topics. Though campaigns like #MeToo, the #IceBucketChallenge, and the…
