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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…

Jessica Vitak Appointed New Director of HCIL

August 30, 2021September 3, 2021 Catherine Plaisant

Jessica Vitak, associate professor in the University of Maryland’s iSchool and affiliate professor in UMD’s Communication Department began her term as the new director of HCIL on August 30, 2021. Jessica has been part of the HCIL since joining the…

Catherine Plaisant retires after 34 years at HCIL

June 22, 2021June 22, 2021 Catherine Plaisant

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), retired on June 4th 2021. UMIACS published a story: Catherine Plaisant Concludes Stellar…

Jonathan Lazar elected to the ACM SIGCHI Academy

June 22, 2021June 22, 2021 Catherine Plaisant

Jonathan Lazar was elected to the ACM SIGCHI Academy, SIGCHI’s recognition of influential scholars in the field of HCI. The award ceremony took place on May 6th, 2021 prior to the CHI 2021 Virtual Conference. Congratulations Jonathan on this major…

Catherine Plaisant Honored with IEEE VGTC Visualization Career Award

October 27, 2020October 27, 2020 Catherine Plaisant

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 IEEE VGTC with the Visualization Career Award. The award…

Niklas Elmqvist co-PI on a $3M NSF Convergence Accelerator grant to develop new workforce training using augmented and virtual reality

October 24, 2020October 24, 2020 Catherine Plaisant

Niklas Elmqvist is co-PI on a $3M NSF Convergence Accelerator grant led by Karthik Ramani (the Donald W. Feddersen Distinguished Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University). This project aims to develop new workforce training using augmented and virtual reality. …

The HCIL at IEEE VIS 2020

October 22, 2020March 10, 2021 Catherine Plaisant

At the end of October, visualization researchers from all around the world usually gather for the IEEE Visualization conference. The Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at University of Maryland will be among them with a strong showing of papers, panels and other presentations.…

Catherine Plaisant’s AVI 2004 keynote paper “The challenge of information visualization evaluation” honored by ACM SIGMM

October 20, 2020October 21, 2020 Catherine Plaisant

Catherine Plaisant’s paper “The challenge of information visualization evaluation” from AVI 2004 was honored by ACM SIGMM (Multimedia) today. For the first time ACM SIGMM gave Test of Time awards this year. The selection committee looked at 10 year old…

Daniel Votipka (MC2 and HCIL) is a recipient of the 2020 John Karat Usable Privacy and Security Student Research Award

September 9, 2020September 9, 2020 Catherine Plaisant

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 recipient of 2020 ACM SIGACCESS Award

September 9, 2020September 9, 2020 Catherine Plaisant

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…