Founded in 1983 at the University of Maryland, the HCIL is the oldest HCI lab in the US. We help train the next generation of HCI researchers and publish research across a wide range of topics. Learn more at https://hcil.umd.edu
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Our third plenary by Caro Williams-Pierce started with a skit before diving into a discussion of three types of "HCI Sludge," inspired by Cass Sunstein's book on sludge.
While we're celebrating today, we want to give a special shout-out to the six HCIL faculty who were recently promoted:
**Associate Prof w/Tenure: Ge Gao, Huaishu Peng, Leo Zhicheng Liu, and Caro Pierce-Wiliams
**Full Prof: Sheena Erete & Eun Kyoung Choe
Congrats all! 🎉
Our second plenary talk today is from CS professor Fengfeng Ke, who is sharing her work on designing AI-human partnerships for skills development.
Our first plenary talk this morning is from Rotem Israel Fishelson, presenting API Can Code in collaboration with David Weintop. Read more about this initiative to make data science more engaging for K-12 students at apicancode.umd.edu
Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 4/16, in the HCIL Lab (HBK 2105) or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Rahul Bhargava on "Community Data: Getting Data Off the Screen" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information.
Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 4/23, in the HCIL Lab (HBK 2105) or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from lee wilkins and sid drmay on "Open Hardware in Art, Community and Beyond!" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information.
Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 5/7, in the HCIL Lab (HBK 2105) or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Pegah Moradi on "“Please Wait, Help Is on the Way”: How Automation Changes Roles and Relationships in Retail Work" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more info.
Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 4/30, in the HCIL Lab (HBK 2105) or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Yalong Yang on "Building a Spatial and Embodied Workspace for Data-Driven Workflows: Immersive Visualizations and more" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-.. for more info.
HCIL at #chi2026!
Read more about the lab’s contributions here: hcil.umd.edu/posts/chi-20...
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Today we hold our 43rd annual HCIL symposium to celebrate the amazing research being conducted in the US' oldest HCI lab. Read more and download the program (with abstracts for all the talks) here: hcil.umd.edu/hcil-symposi...
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Join us Friday, May 29 to learn about the cutting-edge research in happening in the HCIL! In this full-day event (held in the Iribe building on UMD’s campus and on Zoom), we’ll hear from faculty and s...
