HCIL at University of Maryland

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 5/7, in the HCIL Lab (HBK 2105) or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Pegah Moradi on "“Please Wait, Help Is on the Way”: How Automation Changes Roles and Relationships in Retail Work" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information.

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 4/30, in the HCIL Lab (HBK 2105) or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Yalong Yang on "Building a Spatial and Embodied Workspace for Data-Driven Workflows: Immersive Visualizations and more" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information.

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 4/23, in the HCIL Lab (HBK 2105) or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from lee wilkins and sid drmay on "Open Hardware in Art, Community and Beyond!" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information.

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 4/16, in the HCIL Lab (HBK 2105) or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Rahul Bhargava on "Community Data: Getting Data Off the Screen" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information.

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 4/9, in the HCIL Lab (HBK 2105) or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Sunyup Park on "Privacy Negotiation as a Mitigation Strategy for Incidental Users to Lessen Concerns in Smart Home Environments" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information.

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 4/2, in the HCIL Lab (HBK 2105) or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Celia Chen on "Who Do You Trust? Expertise, AI, and the People Who Have to Figure It Out" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information.

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 3/26, in the HCIL Lab (HBK 2105) or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Rohit Mallick on "Prioritizing Human-Centered AI Development: An Interdisciplinary Approach Towards Designing Resilient Human-Machine Systems" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information.

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 2/19, in the HCIL Lab (HBK 2105) or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Matt Akamatsu on "Interoperable AI- and human-centered research with lab discourse graphs" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information.

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 2/12, in the HCIL Lab (HBK 2105) or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Dr. Gabriel Kaptchuk on "On Using Differential Privacy" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information.

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 2/5 , in the lab (HBK 2105) or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. This week we'll hear from two researchers about their UIST papers! Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 12/4, in Iribe 4105 or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Keke Wu on "Rethinking One-Size-Fits-All: Designing Cognitively Accessible Visualizations" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information.

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 11/20, in Iribe 4105 or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Adrienne Massanari on "Gamergate never ended; it just got worse: How the endless harassment campaign brought us Trump and DOGE" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information.

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 11/13, in Iribe 4105 or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Connie Siebold and Khandaker "Swad" Tasnim Huq on their CSCW Papers! Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information.

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 11/6, in Iribe 4105 or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Fiona Bell on "Entangled Ecologies: Designing Bio-Digital Futures" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information.

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 10/30 , in the lab or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Jiasheng Li on "Embodied Non-visual Interaction: Tangible, Haptic, and Robotic Mediation of Graphical User Interface for Blind People" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 10/23, in Iribe 4105 or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Caroline Berger on "Making Science Interactive: Enhancing Synthesis and Collaboration" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information.

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 10/16, in Iribe 4105 or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Zeyu Yan on "Local Circular Electronics Lifecycle Empowered by Sustainable Computational Fabrication" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information.

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 10/9, in Iribe 4105 or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Christiana Chamon Garcia on "AI-Augmented XR for Secure Space Operations: Reducing Cognitive Load and Enhancing Human Decision-Making" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information.

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 10/2, in Iribe 4105 or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Jeba Rezwana on "The next Frontier of AI in Creative Spaces: Designing Human-Centered Co-Creative AI" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information.

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 9/25 , in Iribe 4105 or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Yuexing Hao on "Outlining the Borders for LLM Applications in Patient Education: Developing an Expert-in-the-Loop LLM-Powered Chatbot for Prostate Cancer Patient Education" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information.

Miss the HCIL Symposium last month? We've got you covered! Check out this Youtube playlist with 37 lightning talks, 3 plenaries, and one panel: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL63vZoxzFRbuRrDmLzH6WBlcG26BUkt34&si=oPBGK0q053XlsAGQ

We are in the home stretch of the symposium! For our last two lightning talk clusters, we'll hear from 13 HCIL members on topics spanning XR, making, sensemaking, and learning.
#hcil2025
More information here: https://hcil.umd.edu/hcil-symposium-2025/

For our second set of lightning talks, we're covering usable privacy/security and ubiquitous computing across 11 talks. #hcil2025

We’re back from lunch and kicking off a hybrid panel on peer review.
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Many of the talks being presented today were published recently at #chi2025. We have a round-up of all the CHI contributions from the lab (with links to papers) here: https://hcil.umd.edu/posts/chi-2025-roundup-hcil-researchers-showcase-research-win-awards-at-chi-2025/

We now shift to our first two clusters of lightning talks, spanning human-centered AI and accessibility. You can access the full program, including abstracts for all 37(!) lightning talks here: https://hcil.umd.edu/hcil-symposium-2025/
#hcil2025

For our third plenary talk,
@mmazurek.bsky.social
services all’s about going beyond end users in human-centered security. #hcil2025

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 2/6, in the lab or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Amy Voida on "Making Data Strange in Nonprofit Organizations." Visit https://hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-series/ for more information.

UMD's spring semester starts next week, which also means our speaker series starts back up. Join us next Thursday (1/30) for a talk from Majeed Kazemi (UToronto) who'll be presenting "Learning to Code with AI." For more information (and to register for the Zoom), visit https://hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-series/

Did you miss the 41st Annual HCIL Symposium last week? Maybe you want to rewatch some of your favorite talks? We've got you covered with a playlist of all the day's talks: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL63vZoxzFRbt_7MDjkvyAPzAx5hUKiqIY

For the full program, including abstracts, visit https://hcil.umd.edu/hcil-symposium-2024/
#hcil2024