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Dr. Jonathan Lazar giving a presentation with a slide that reads: "What do we mean by digital accessibility?"

Dr. Jonathan Lazar Delivering a Lecture on Digital Accessibility

SIGACCESS Release: Jonathan Lazar – Outstanding Contribution Recipient 2020

SIGACCESS - August 27, 2020

Dr. Jonathan Lazar was named the winner of the 2020 ACM SIGACCESS Award (Special Interest Groups on Accessible Computing) for Out …

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Dr. Susannah Paletz

UMD iSchool to Investigate AI Tech for Intelligence Analysts

Press Release - August 26, 2020

Funded by the U.S. Army Research Office, the multi-institution team led by Dr. Susannah Paletz will look at team cognition and AI solu …

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Gregg Vanderheiden delivers Keynote at International Human Computer Interface Conference

iSchool News - August 3, 2020

Gregg Vanderheiden proposes an alternate approach to accessibility and extended usability for next-next generation UI/UX.

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Universities at Shady Grove Blog: How Technology is Helping People with Traumatic Brain Injuries

Galina Madjaroff Reitz - July 20, 2020

Amazon's Alexa can help people with brain injuries regain independence and feel supported in their own home.

photo of two older women using vr goggles and a younger man between them assisting

Medium: Approaches Matter

Emma Dixon - June 27, 2020

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

Jonggi Hong - June 22, 2020

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

Niklas Elmqvist - June 22, 2020

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

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Medium: HCIL 2019-2020 News Roundup

Huaishu Peng - June 22, 2020

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

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Medium: Engaging the Commons in Participatory Sensing

Yongle Zhang - June 22, 2020

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