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

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

Huaishu Peng kicks off the 42nd annual symposium with a plenary talk on his Small Artifacts Lab work. #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: https://hcil.umd.edu/hcil-symposium-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: https://hcil.umd.edu/hcil-symposium-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: https://hcil.umd.edu/hcil-symposium-2025/

The HCIL had an excellent showing at this years CHI, with 45 faculty and students listed on accepted papers + two best papers and two honorable mention awards.

Read more about the research presented at CHI here: https://hcil.umd.edu/posts/chi-2025-roundup-hcil-researchers-showcase-research-win-awards-at-chi-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.

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.

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.

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.

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 https://hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-series/ for more information.

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 3/27 , in the lab or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Andrew Head on "Reading Augmented" Visit https://hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-series/ for more information.

Join us at 12:30pm ET Thursday, 3/13 , in the lab or online for our weekly brown bag speaker series. We'll hear from Oliver Haimson on "Trans Technologies." Visit https://hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-series/ for more information.