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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, 2020October 22, 2020 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…

HCIL 2019–2020 News Roundup

June 10, 2020June 10, 2020 Beth Domingo

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…

HCIL publishes “Sparks of Innovation – Stories from the HCIL”, a blog post collection on Medium

May 21, 2020October 21, 2020 Catherine Plaisant

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 in communicating our research to the rest of the world. Now we are…

Catherine Plaisant Honored with ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award

March 9, 2020March 9, 2020 Beth Domingo

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…

Ben Shneiderman Inducted into IEEE Visualization Academy

November 4, 2019November 4, 2019 Beth Domingo

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…