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Sparks of Innovation: Stories from the HCILResearch at the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at University of Maryland
Note from the editor
“Sparks of Innovation: Stories from the HCIL” features popular science descriptions of research, events, and activities at the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL) at the University of Maryland, College Park. The HCIL has a long, rich history of transforming the experience people have with new technologies. From understanding user needs, to developing and evaluating those technologies, the lab’s faculty, staff, and students have been leading the way in HCI research and teaching. In this publication, we extend this tradition to also communicating our research to a general audience in a popular, inclusive, and accessible way.
Editors
Niklas Elmqvist
Professor in visualization and human-computer interaction at Aarhus University in Aarhus, Denmark.
Joel Chan
Assistant Professor at @iSchoolUMD & @hcil_umd. Research/teach information infrastructures for innovation and discovery.
Writers
Senthil Chandrasegaran
Assistant professor at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, TU Delft, the Netherlands.
Brian Ondov
Graduate student in Computer Science at University of Maryland, College Park. Research fellow at the National Institutes of Health.
Priya Kumar
I study Internet things: digital rights, privacy, social media use. PhD student @iSchoolUMD. Alum of @rankingrights, @UMSI, @berkmancenter, @MerrillCollege.
Brooke Auxier
Studies social media, technology, digital users, and online information. PhD + MA, University of Maryland. BA St. Norbert College.
Sigfried Steven Gold
Exploratory data visualization for open science (OHDSI) researchers. Leveraging semantic knowledge graphs to improve the quality of electronic phenotyping.
Xin Qian
A newcomer to design. Currently a PhD student in Information Studies, University of Maryland, College Park.
Daniel Votipka
University of Maryland PhD Candidate. Member of the Security, Privacy, and People lab. Interested in usable security and software vulnerability discovery.
Janet Bih Shufor
Janet is an electrical engineering educator focused on introducing new technologies into learning spaces, to enhance 21st century STEM skills for all learners.
Kaush Ganesh
Design Researcher. MS in Human-Computer Interaction. Passionate about user experience research & inclusive design strategies.
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Anthony is a post doctoral scholar at the University of Maryland who studies how people play, learn, and socialize in games.
Ben Shneiderman
BEN SHNEIDERMAN (http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben) is an Emeritus Distinguished Univof Maryland Professor in Computer Science, Member National Academy of Engineering
Kelsey Fulton
University of Maryland PhD student. Member of the Security, Privacy, and People (SP2) lab. Interested in usable security and secure software development.
Peter F Moon
Peter is a mathematics education PhD student at UMD with a particular interest in statistics education and programming as a learning tool.
Yuexi (Tracy) Chen
Computer science PhD student@Univ of Maryland, working on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)