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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 …
iSchool Hosts 5th Annual Info Challenge
This week-long event engaged students from across the region in cybersecurity, design, and data analytics projects to tackle real-world …
FOX5: Amazon’s ‘just walk out’ technology
iSchool Associate Professor Dr. Jessica Vitak shares her views on the data and privacy concerns surrounding Amazon’s new shopping tec …
Image: From Alphabet Inc.'s defunct Sidewalk Labs: Quayside project, Toronto.
REAL LIFE MAG: Seeing Without Looking
Sidewalk Toronto is dead, but its legacy shows there are more ways to violate one’s privacy than collecting one’s image.
Illustration by Darren Garrett
(Video) SoDa Symposium: Trustworthiness in Social Data Science
Researchers from UMD and Cornell University discuss the ethical dilemmas in social data science and how ethnographic studies can help g …
Seven iSchool Undergraduates Join UMD’s First Sprinternship™
The students worked to create solutions to cybersecurity, IT, and other tech challenges while exploring career opportunities in informa …
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Social Data Science Major to Debut in February
New B.S. degree program to teach students how to collect, analyze data for fast-growing fields.
