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(Video) Driving Economic Growth: UMD Task Force Explores AI’s Role in Job Creation for Prince George’s County
INFO's Keith Marzullo and Vanessa Frias-Martinez play key roles in AI-driven initiatives to drive economic growth Prince George’s Cou …
UMIACS: Reimagining the Future of Historical Research, One Box at a Time (ft. Doug Oard)
UMD researchers develop AI tools to streamline archival searches, revolutionizing historical document access
Press Release: Best Practices & Collaborative Strategies in Digital Equity: Get Ready for the 2024 Maryland Statewide Digital Equity Summit
Experts will gather at the 2024 Maryland Digital Equity Summit to share strategies for advancing digital inclusion.
(Video) OTTRS Speaker Series: “Interactive Team Cognition for Humans and Machines”
Featuring Human Systems Engineer Dr. Nancy J. Cooke of Arizona State University
(Video) Dean’s Lecture Series: Game-Changers: Unleashing the Power of Sports Informatics in Athletics
Panelists discuss the game changing unification of sports and data
(Video) OTTRS Speaker Series: Virtual Team Creativity and Innovation
Distinguished professor from University of Nebraska at Omaha gives a presentation about the psychological impacts of virtual work
Dr. Samantha Dubrow
(Video) OTTRS Speaker Series: Human-Machine Teaming: What Skills Do the Humans Need?
The presentation highlights the human traits and abilities that maximize human-machine teaming effectiveness.
Daniel Greene: Rethinking How Schools, Libraries, and Community Orgs Tackle Poverty
Can a community barbeque be more beneficial to citizens than learning computing skills? Insights from INFO Assistant Professor Daniel G …
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 …