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Medium: Devices All The Way Down
Professor and Director of the HCIL, Niklas Elmqvist, reflects on his NSF Career Project.

Medium: HCIL 2019-2020 News Roundup
UMD Human-Computer Interaction Lab’s (HCIL) 2019-2020 accomplishments

Press Release: Naeemul Hassan Awarded $228,000 NSF Grant For Collaborative Project
Dr. Naeemul Hassan and collaborators aim to design and develop computational models to automatically detect video clickbait.

Medium: Engaging the Commons in Participatory Sensing
Research on participatory sensing, the practice of using human participants to gather data on their mobile devices from their environm …

David Weintrop Awarded Prestigious National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr. David Weintrop receives $70K award to integrate computing and the powerful ideas of computer science into classrooms.

School Library Journal: COVID-19 Is an Opportunity to Rethink Youth Librarianship | Reimagining Libraries, featuring Mega Subramaniam
Discusses how libraries have adapted to continue serving their communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Brookings: Where Would Racial Progress in Policing be Without Camera Phones? featuring Nicol Turner Lee
Technology is becoming part of the story regarding how marginalized populations in the U.S.