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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

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! 🎉

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

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.

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

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

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

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

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

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...

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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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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

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.

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

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.

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

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.

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

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

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

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.

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

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.

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

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.

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

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.

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

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.

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

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.

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

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

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

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.

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

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-...

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

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.

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

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.

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

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.

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

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.

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

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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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

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.

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

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.

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

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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ACM CSCW @acm-cscw.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

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...

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

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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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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Jessica Vitak @vitak.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

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.

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

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...

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Wentao Guo shares some of his dissertation research on challenges with deidentifying data. #hcil2025

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

We’re back from lunch and kicking off a hybrid panel on peer review.

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

PhD student Claire O’Connor shares new work on how AI tools can help assistive and alternative communication.

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

PhD candidate Jason Ding shares work on supporting human-AI collaboration in exploring hypotheses.

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

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

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

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: hcil.umd.edu/hcil-symposi... #hcil2025

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

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

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Hawra Rabaan shares her ongoing work on incorporating social justice theories into design in our second plenary talk. #hcil2025

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Huaishu Peng kicks off the 42nd annual symposium with a plenary talk on his Small Artifacts Lab work. #hcil2025

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

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...

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

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...

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

The 42nd annual HCIL symposium is less than three 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...

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HCIL's 42nd Annual Symposium | May 29, 2025 - Human-Computer Interaction Lab

Join us May 29 in-person at the School of Public Policy (TMH 0301), or on Zoom to learn about the cutting-edge research in happening in the HCIL! In this full-day event, we’ll hear from faculty and st...

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 5/8 , in the lab or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Fumeng Yang on "Human-Model Interaction in Civic Sectors" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information.

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 5/1 , in the lab or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Frank Elavsky on "Tool-making, Accessibility, and Interactive Data Experiences" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information.

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 4/17 , in the lab or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Dr. Vinitha Gadiraju on "Navigating Bias and Leveraging AI: Exploring the Dual Reality for Users with Disabilities" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information.

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 4/10 , in the lab or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Dr. Matthew Louis Mauriello on "Advancing Digital Health: AI-Driven Interventions for Patient Care and Workflow Optimization" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information.

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HCIL @hcil-umd.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 4/3 , in the lab or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Dr. Nora McDonald on "Threat Modeling Reproductive Health Privacy" Visit hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-... for more information.

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