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Getting Personal: How People Who are Blind Can Leverage AI to Access the Visual World

Hayleigh Moore - May 29, 2020

The Teachable Object Recognizer mobile application uses AI and machine learning to help access the visual world.

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Medium: What If Blind People Wear a Camera That Can Detect You in Public Spaces? (by Kyungjun Lee)

Mia K. Hinckle - May 29, 2020

A research team from the UMD HCIL lab examine the social acceptance of wearable cameras.

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Student-Athletes’ Use of Their Performance Data; Evaluating Tech to Regulate Anxiety – UMD iSchool Papers Awarded at CHI 2020

iSchool News - May 21, 2020

The ACM annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) is considered the most prestigious in the field of human–comput …

Automatically Arranging Charts with Vistribute

Automatically Arranging Charts with Vistribute

iSchoolNews - April 26, 2019

Supporting analysts in placing visualizations across multiple devices.

Something is Rank in the State of Data

Something is Rank in the State of Data

iSchoolNews - April 26, 2019

Determining the best way to visualize ranked lists.

The HCIL Goes to Glasgow

The HCIL Goes to Glasgow

iSchoolNews - April 25, 2019

With another strong showing at the CHI 2019 conference, the HCIL is heading to the Scottish lowlands in early May.