HCIL
@hcil-umd.bsky.social
Founded in 1983 at the University of Maryland, the HCIL is the oldest HCI lab in the US. We help train the next generation of HCI researchers and publish research across a wide range of topics. Learn more at https://hcil.umd.edu
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.
November 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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.
October 31, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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.
October 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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.
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.
October 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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.
October 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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.
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Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 10/9, in Iribe 4105 or Zoom for our brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Christiana 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.
October 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 10/9, in Iribe 4105 or Zoom for our brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Christiana 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, 10/9, in Iribe 4105 or Zoom for our brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Christiana 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.
October 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 10/9, in Iribe 4105 or Zoom for our brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Christiana 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.
September 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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, 9/25 , in IRB4105 or Zoom for our BBL 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" hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-series/
September 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Join us at 12:30pm ET, 9/25 , in IRB4105 or Zoom for our BBL 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" hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-series/
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Registration for CSCW 2025 in Bergen, Norway is open!
Register here: cscw.acm.org/2025/index.p.... The early bird registration deadline is September 2, 2025. #cscw2025
You can attend in person or virtually -- read more about how hyrbid will work here: cscw.acm.org/2025/index.p...
Register here: cscw.acm.org/2025/index.p.... The early bird registration deadline is September 2, 2025. #cscw2025
You can attend in person or virtually -- read more about how hyrbid will work here: cscw.acm.org/2025/index.p...
Registration – CSCW 2025
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July 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Registration for CSCW 2025 in Bergen, Norway is open!
Register here: cscw.acm.org/2025/index.p.... The early bird registration deadline is September 2, 2025. #cscw2025
You can attend in person or virtually -- read more about how hyrbid will work here: cscw.acm.org/2025/index.p...
Register here: cscw.acm.org/2025/index.p.... The early bird registration deadline is September 2, 2025. #cscw2025
You can attend in person or virtually -- read more about how hyrbid will work here: cscw.acm.org/2025/index.p...
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: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
2025 HCIL Symposium - YouTube
The 42nd annual HCIL Symposium was held on the University of Maryland campus on May 29, 2025. For more information about the event, including the program wit...
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June 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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I'd like to thank everyone who presented, volunteered, or participated yesterday in the 42nd annual HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social symposium at UMD. This is my 13th year attending & 4th year running the event -- the curiosity, ingenuity, and creativity of our students/faculty never ceases to amaze me.
May 30, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I'd like to thank everyone who presented, volunteered, or participated yesterday in the 42nd annual HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social symposium at UMD. This is my 13th year attending & 4th year running the event -- the curiosity, ingenuity, and creativity of our students/faculty never ceases to amaze me.
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: hcil.umd.edu/hcil-symposi...
#hcil2025
More information here: hcil.umd.edu/hcil-symposi...
May 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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: hcil.umd.edu/hcil-symposi...
#hcil2025
More information here: hcil.umd.edu/hcil-symposi...
We’re back from lunch and kicking off a hybrid panel on peer review.
May 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
We’re back from lunch and kicking off a hybrid panel on peer review.
PhD student Claire O’Connor shares new work on how AI tools can help assistive and alternative communication.
May 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
PhD student Claire O’Connor shares new work on how AI tools can help assistive and alternative communication.
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: hcil.umd.edu/posts/chi-20...
CHI 2025 roundup: HCIL researchers showcase research & win awards at CHI 2025 - Human-Computer Interaction Lab
The HCIL had another excellent showing at this year’s ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI), which was held April 26-May 1, 2025 in Yokohama Japan. This year, 45(!) faculty and st...
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May 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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: hcil.umd.edu/posts/chi-20...
PhD candidate Jason Ding shares work on supporting human-AI collaboration in exploring hypotheses.
May 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
PhD candidate Jason Ding shares work on supporting human-AI collaboration in exploring hypotheses.
In her talk on training with less, Farnaz Zamiri Zeraati asks, How do non-experts decide which of their data is most valuable for AI training? #hcil2025
May 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
In her talk on training with less, Farnaz Zamiri Zeraati asks, How do non-experts decide which of their data is most valuable for AI training? #hcil2025
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: hcil.umd.edu/hcil-symposi...
#hcil2025
#hcil2025
May 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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: hcil.umd.edu/hcil-symposi...
#hcil2025
#hcil2025
For our third plenary talk, @mmazurek.bsky.social services all’s about going beyond end users in human-centered security. #hcil2025
May 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
For our third plenary talk, @mmazurek.bsky.social services all’s about going beyond end users in human-centered security. #hcil2025
This is the week!
Join us this Thursday (May 29) for our 42nd annual HCIL Symposium sharing and celebrating all the awesome HCI research happening at UMD.
More information here: hcil.umd.edu/hcil-symposi...
Join us this Thursday (May 29) for our 42nd annual HCIL Symposium sharing and celebrating all the awesome HCI research happening at UMD.
More information here: hcil.umd.edu/hcil-symposi...
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May 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
This is the week!
Join us this Thursday (May 29) for our 42nd annual HCIL Symposium sharing and celebrating all the awesome HCI research happening at UMD.
More information here: hcil.umd.edu/hcil-symposi...
Join us this Thursday (May 29) for our 42nd annual HCIL Symposium sharing and celebrating all the awesome HCI research happening at UMD.
More information here: hcil.umd.edu/hcil-symposi...
The 42nd annual HCIL symposium is less than two weeks away! Join us May 29 on UMD's campus or Zoom to hear about the amazing research happening in the lab.
More info and registration link are here: hcil.umd.edu/hcil-symposi...
More info and registration link are here: hcil.umd.edu/hcil-symposi...
May 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The 42nd annual HCIL symposium is less than two weeks away! Join us May 29 on UMD's campus or Zoom to hear about the amazing research happening in the lab.
More info and registration link are here: hcil.umd.edu/hcil-symposi...
More info and registration link are here: hcil.umd.edu/hcil-symposi...