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While we're celebrating today, we want to give a special shout-out to the six HCIL faculty who were recently promoted: **Associate Prof w/Tenure: Ge Gao, Huaishu Peng, Leo Zhicheng Liu, and Caro Pierce-Wiliams **Full Prof: Sheena Erete & Eun Kyoung Choe Congrats all! 🎉

Our third plenary by Caro Williams-Pierce started with a skit before diving into a discussion of three types of "HCI Sludge," inspired by Cass Sunstein's book on sludge.

Our second plenary talk today is from CS professor Fengfeng Ke, who is sharing her work on designing AI-human partnerships for skills development.

Our first plenary talk this morning is from Rotem Israel Fishelson, presenting API Can Code in collaboration with David Weintop. Read more about this initiative to make data science more engaging for K-12 students at apicancode.umd.edu

HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Today we hold our 43rd annual HCIL symposium to celebrate the amazing research being conducted in the US' oldest HCI lab. Read more and download the program (with abstracts for all the talks) here: hcil.umd.edu/hcil-symposi...

HCIL's 43rd Annual Symposium | May 29, 2026 - Human-Computer Interaction Lab

Join us Friday, May 29 to learn about the cutting-edge research in happening in the HCIL! In this full-day event (held in the Iribe building on UMD’s campus and on Zoom), we’ll hear from faculty and s...

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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 info.

HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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 info.

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.

HCIL at #chi2026! Read more about the lab’s contributions here: hcil.umd.edu/posts/chi-20...

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 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.

HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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 or online for our 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.

HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 6mo ago

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.

HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 6mo ago

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.

HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 6mo ago

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

HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 8mo ago

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-...

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.

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 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.