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INFO names Douglas W. Oard as Interim Dean. A faculty member since 1996, Oard brings decades of leadership, teaching & research to the role. Learn more about his appointment and what’s next for INFO. 🔗 Full story: brnw.ch/21wTQns
UMD INFO’s i3r research group centers immigrant voices in tech, archives, and policy by flipping the script on traditional research. Discover how they’re turning exclusion into empowerment through co-designed information systems. Read more: brnw.ch/21wUdCX
INFO faculty are leading #AI research at #UMD through $1.5M AIM seed grants advancing ethical, interdisciplinary work in health, policy, robotics & more. 🔗 Read more: brnw.ch/21wUopH #ResponsibleAI
Nonverbal communication like nods, hand gestures and meaningful glances are a part of everyday life and can be crucial for building trust and collaboration at work. But for blind individuals, these subtle visual cues go unnoticed. Researchers at the University of Maryland and…
INFO’s David Weintrop explores real-world impact in the classroom in his latest paper on authentic data science curricula for high schoolers - now published in ISLS. 🔗 Read more: terpconnect.umd.edu/~weintrop/pape…
New from INFO’s David Weintrop: “Using Embodiment to Reason About Geometry” in a computational thinking + math activity. Published in ISLS. 🔗 Read more: terpconnect.umd.edu/~weintrop/pape…
New from INFO’s Joel Chan & Ph.D. student Siyi Zhu: “Sense and Senseability” explores the future of immersive environments in scholarly sensemaking. See their C&C '25 paper: 🔗 Read more: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.114…
🌍 SAVE THE DATE! 🌍 The world is your classroom, Terps! Whether you're a freshman exploring your options or an upperclassman ready to take the leap, grab a friend and join us at the Study Abroad Fair! Wednesday, Sept. 10 2-5 p.m. RSVP today: go.umd.edu/20h3
New from INFO’s Stephanie Valencia & Ph.D. student Claire O’Connor: “One Does Not Simply ‘Mm-hmm’”- a look at backchanneling in AAC micro-culture. Now on arXiv. 🔗 Read more: arxiv.org/pdf/2506.17890
New from INFO’s Caro Williams-Pierce: “Differences in Novice and Expert Evaluations of Generative AI-Produced Definitions” in ISLS. 🔗 Read more: repository.isls.org/bitstream/1/11… #AI #GenerativeAI
INFO’s Ido Sivan-Sevilla & undergrad Parthav Poudel explore third-party tracking in digital news in their new paper for the FOCI workshop at the PETs conference. 📰 Read more: foci.community
New paper by INFO’s Ido Sivan-Sevilla & Ph.D. student Patrick Parham calls for more transparency in moderating borderline extremist content. 📄 Read it in Internet Policy Review: policyreview.info #DigitalPolicy
INFO's Amanda Lazar brings HCI to a DC retirement community, where students and seniors co-design tech solutions like 3D printing! A makerspace built on community needs. 💡 Read the full story: brnw.ch/21wU2J3
New paper by INFO's Doug Oard & Ge Gao: “An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human-Centered Machine Translation” explores user-focused MT design. Now on arXiv! 🔗 Read more: arxiv.org/pdf/2506.13468 #AIresearch
New paper by Interim Dean Doug Oard: “NTCIR-18 SUSHI Pilot Task Overview” explores evaluation of spoken information retrieval systems. Now in NTCIR-18 Proceedings. 🔗 Read more:research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop… #InformationAccess #AIresearch
New paper by David Weintrop: “Scratch Encore” explores how to create and sustain culturally responsive CS education. Now in Journal of Technology-Integrated Lessons and Teaching. 🔗 Read more: researchgate.net/publication/39…
New paper by INFO's Beth Bonsignore, Andy Fellows & Tammy Clegg explores campus-scale IoT for smart stormwater management in Advanced Intelligent Discovery. 🔗 Read more: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/… #IoT #SustainabilityTech
HCIM students recently teamed up with AOTF to revamp their website, boosting accessibility and UX. A real-world win for all! 🔗 Read more: brnw.ch/21wTSiz
New paper by INFO's Phuong-Anh Nguyen-Le & Wei Ai introduces VietMix—a Vietnamese-English code-mixed corpus for machine translation. Now on arXiv! 🔗 Read more: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.24472 #AIresearch
New paper by Yuhang Zhou, Yimin Xiao, Wei Ai & Ge Gao explores how emojis shape harmful online speech & moderation efforts. Now on arXiv: “The Hidden Language of Harm.” 🔗 Read more:arxiv.org/pdf/2506.00583