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UMD Info College Welcomes New Associate Professor Amelia Gibson
Dr. Gibson will also be stepping into the Associate Director role for the Info College's Information Policy & Access Center (iPAC).
UMD Info College Welcomes New Associate Professor Sheena Erete
Dr. Erete looks to build new community partnerships and engage the local community surrounding UMD in meaningful ways.
Senior Associate Dean Moves to New Opportunities After a Decade of Service
The College reflects on the visionary prowess and “can-do” attitude of Dr. Brian Butler as he steps into new leadership role.
The four Kim Loo Sisters in hats. Photo by James Kriegsmann, Circa 1939 (Left) The Kim Sisters. Robert W. Kelley / The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images file (Right)
Recovering Early Asian American Voices In American Popular Music: Two Girl Groups
iSchool Lecturer, Dr. Eric Hung, discusses the many histories and absence of Asian Americans in American popular music.
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(Video) Search Mastery Speaker Series: Manchester vs. Cranfield
A discussion about why we answer questions, and how a new paradigm can justify crafting search queries that go beyond information seeki …
The Maryland State House in Annapolis
New Law Ensures Equivalent Access to Digital Tools for All of Maryland’s K-12 Students
Trace Center Director and iSchool professor Jonathan Lazar contributed to and testified in support of the bill to bring an accessibilit …
Can a Strategy Game Help AI Learn to Spot Scammers?
iSchool Associate Professor, Dr. Jordan Boyd-Graber, joins team of researchers awarded $1M to support U.S. Military’s cybersecurity f …
Dual video conferencing in the proposed remote study design. While interacting with a testbed on a smartphone, a blind participant wearing smart glasses communicates with the experimenter through dual video conferencing. Two video streams are being sent to the experimenter: one from the participant’s smart glasses (a pair of Vuzix blade with the camera located on the top right corner) and the other from a laptop camera facing the participant on the same Zoom call.
Covid-19 Pandemic Moves Research on Assistive Technologies From the Lab to People’s Homes
Dr. Hernisa Kacorri’s research on object recognizers with blind participants required a pivot to remote usability testing, leading he …
