HCIL

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 10/23, in Iribe 4105 or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Caroline Berger on "Making Science Interactive: Enhancing Synthesis and Collaboration" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information.

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 10/16, in Iribe 4105 or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Zeyu Yan on "Local Circular Electronics Lifecycle Empowered by Sustainable Computational Fabrication" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information.

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 10/9, in Iribe 4105 or Zoom for our brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Christiana Garcia on "AI-Augmented XR for Secure Space Operations: Reducing Cognitive Load and Enhancing Human Decision-Making" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information.

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 10/9, in Iribe 4105 or Zoom for our brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Christiana Garcia on "AI-Augmented XR for Secure Space Operations: Reducing Cognitive Load and Enhancing Human Decision-Making" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information.

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 10/2, in Iribe 4105 or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Jeba Rezwana on "The next Frontier of AI in Creative Spaces: Designing Human-Centered Co-Creative AI" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information.

Join us at 12:30pm ET, 9/25 , in IRB4105 or Zoom for our BBL speaker series. We'll hear from Yuexing Hao on "Outlining the Borders for LLM Applications in Patient Education: Developing an Expert-in-the-Loop LLM-Powered Chatbot for Prostate Cancer Patient Education" hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-series/

Registration for CSCW 2025 in Bergen, Norway is open!
Register here: cscw.acm.org/2025/index.p.... The early bird registration deadline is September 2, 2025. #cscw2025

You can attend in person or virtually -- read more about how hyrbid will work here: cscw.acm.org/2025/index.p...

2025 HCIL Symposium - YouTube The 42nd annual HCIL Symposium was held on the University of Maryland campus on May 29, 2025. For more information about the event, including the program wit...

Miss the HCIL Symposium last month? We've got you covered! Check out this Youtube playlist with 37 lightning talks, 3 plenaries, and one panel: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I'd like to thank everyone who presented, volunteered, or participated yesterday in the 42nd annual HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social symposium at UMD. This is my 13th year attending & 4th year running the event -- the curiosity, ingenuity, and creativity of our students/faculty never ceases to amaze me.

We are in the home stretch of the symposium! For our last two lightning talk clusters, we'll hear from 13 HCIL members on topics spanning XR, making, sensemaking, and learning.
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More information here: hcil.umd.edu/hcil-symposi...

Wentao Guo shares some of his dissertation research on challenges with deidentifying data. #hcil2025

We’re back from lunch and kicking off a hybrid panel on peer review.

PhD student Claire O’Connor shares new work on how AI tools can help assistive and alternative communication.

CHI 2025 roundup: HCIL researchers showcase research & win awards at CHI 2025 - Human-Computer Interaction Lab The HCIL had another excellent showing at this year’s ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI), which was held April 26-May 1, 2025 in Yokohama Japan.  This year, 45(!) faculty and st...

Many of the talks being presented today were published recently at #chi2025. We have a round-up of all the CHI contributions from the lab (with links to papers) here: hcil.umd.edu/posts/chi-20...

PhD candidate Jason Ding shares work on supporting human-AI collaboration in exploring hypotheses.

In her talk on training with less, Farnaz Zamiri Zeraati asks, How do non-experts decide which of their data is most valuable for AI training? #hcil2025

We now shift to our first two clusters of lightning talks, spanning human-centered AI and accessibility. You can access the full program, including abstracts for all 37(!) lightning talks here: hcil.umd.edu/hcil-symposi...
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For our third plenary talk, @mmazurek.bsky.social services all’s about going beyond end users in human-centered security. #hcil2025

Hawra Rabaan shares her ongoing work on incorporating social justice theories into design in our second plenary talk. #hcil2025

Huaishu Peng kicks off the 42nd annual symposium with a plenary talk on his Small Artifacts Lab work. #hcil2025

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This is the week!
Join us this Thursday (May 29) for our 42nd annual HCIL Symposium sharing and celebrating all the awesome HCI research happening at UMD.
More information here: hcil.umd.edu/hcil-symposi...

The 42nd annual HCIL symposium is less than two weeks away! Join us May 29 on UMD's campus or Zoom to hear about the amazing research happening in the lab.

More info and registration link are here: hcil.umd.edu/hcil-symposi...

CHI 2025 roundup: HCIL researchers showcase research & win awards at CHI 2025 - Human-Computer Interaction Lab The HCIL had another excellent showing at this year’s ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI), which was held April 26-May 1, 2025 in Yokohama Japan.  This year, 45(!) faculty and st...

The HCIL had an excellent showing at this years CHI, with 45 faculty and students listed on accepted papers + two best papers and two honorable mention awards.

Read more about the research presented at CHI here: hcil.umd.edu/posts/chi-20...

HCIL's 42nd Annual Symposium | May 29, 2025 - Human-Computer Interaction Lab Join us May 29 in-person at the School of Public Policy (TMH 0301), or on Zoom to learn about the cutting-edge research in happening in the HCIL! In this full-day event, we’ll hear from faculty and st...

The 42nd annual HCIL symposium is less than three weeks away! Join us May 29 on UMD's campus or Zoom to hear about the amazing research happening in the lab.

More info and registration link are here: hcil.umd.edu/hcil-symposi...

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 5/8 , in the lab or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Fumeng Yang on "Human-Model Interaction in Civic Sectors" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information.

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 5/1 , in the lab or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Frank Elavsky on "Tool-making, Accessibility, and Interactive Data Experiences" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information.

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 4/17 , in the lab or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Dr. Vinitha Gadiraju on "Navigating Bias and Leveraging AI: Exploring the Dual Reality for Users with Disabilities" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information.

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 4/10 , in the lab or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Dr. Matthew Louis Mauriello on "Advancing Digital Health: AI-Driven Interventions for Patient Care and Workflow Optimization" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information.

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 4/3 , in the lab or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Dr. Nora McDonald on "Threat Modeling Reproductive Health Privacy" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information.

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 3/27 , in the lab or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Andrew Head on "Reading Augmented" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information.