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UMD iSchool Welcomes Seven New Faculty Members

August 26, 2020 | Mia K. Hinckle

With strengths in library and archives innovation, digital curation, criminal justice data science, socio-technical aspects of cybersec …

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UMD iSchool, a Hub of Revolutionary Digital Curation Research and Technology Development

August 25, 2020 | Hayleigh Moore

Exploring the UMD iSchool's history of being integral to the advancement of digital curation.

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Medium: Approaches Matter

June 27, 2020 | Emma Dixon

Researching how technology can be used for active engagement to help people with dementia.

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Medium: What to Expect When Non-Experts Train AI

June 22, 2020 | Jonggi Hong

Research on machine teaching in which non-experts teach a model through a teachable interface.

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Medium: Devices All The Way Down

June 22, 2020 | Niklas Elmqvist

Professor and Director of the HCIL, Niklas Elmqvist, reflects on his NSF Career Project.

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Medium: HCIL 2019-2020 News Roundup

June 22, 2020 | Huaishu Peng

UMD Human-Computer Interaction Lab’s (HCIL) 2019-2020 accomplishments

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Press Release: Naeemul Hassan Awarded $228,000 NSF Grant For Collaborative Project

June 22, 2020 | UMD Philip Merrill College of Journalism

Dr. Naeemul Hassan and collaborators aim to design and develop computational models to automatically detect video clickbait. 

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Medium: Engaging the Commons in Participatory Sensing

June 22, 2020 | Yongle Zhang

Research on participatory sensing, the practice of using human participants to gather data on their mobile devices from their environm …