The University of Maryland's Human-Computer Interaction Lab's 28th Annual Symposium: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 and Thursday, May 26, 2011
HCIL's 28th Annual Symposium will consider the future of social media, medical informatics, information visualization, interaction design & children, HCI design methods and MORE! Learn more about the HCIL's research at the UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND through talks, tutorials, workshops, demos and posters.
NEW: Integrated 2 day event with parallel tracks. This year for the 1st time the symposium, tutorials and workshops are merged into an extended program with parallel sessions.
Program:
Wednesday, May 25: Keynotes, talks in parallel with workshops and tutorials
Thursday, May 26: Demos, talks in parallel with workshops and tutorials
Attendees can focus on suggested tracks or sample talks from all topics. Sample tracks include:
- Social Media
- Medical Informatics
- Information Visualization
- Interaction Design & Children
- HCI Design Methods
Please see below for suggested tracks:
For attendees focusing on SOCIAL MEDIA:
- Technology Mediated Social Participation - Keynote (Jenny Preece and Ben Shneiderman)
- Visual Analysis at Twitter - Keynote (Jimmy Lin)
- Understanding Users and Relationships in Social Networks - Keynote (Jen Golbeck)
- Crowdsourcing Translation with Monolingual Participants (Chang Hu, Ben Bederson)
- Crowdsourcing Decision Support (Alex Quinn)
- EventGraphs: Mapping the social structure of events with NodeXL (Derek Hansen)
- Nation of Neighbors: Temporal visualization of social network dynamics (P.J. Ray, Nick Violi, Alan Neustadtl)
- Visualizing the Temporal Evolution of Networks (Jae-Wook Ahn, Ben Shneiderman)
- Encyclopedia of Life: Motivating public enthusiasts and expert scientists to document the world's species (Cynthia Parr, Dana Rotman)
- Using Online Games to Integrate Human and Computer Vision (Darcy Lewis, Arijit Biswas)
- How Social Media Affects Youth Development (June Ahn)
- Allowing Students Access to Social Media (June Ahn)
- WORKSHOP: Social Media Networks and Communities (Jen Golbeck, Derek Hansen)
For attendees focusing on MEDICAL INFORMATICS:
- Visual Temporal Analysis: LifeFlow for medical and transportation data (Krist Wongsuphasawat, et al.)
- Electronic Health Record Interfaces: Reducing missed lab results (Sureyya Tarkan, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman)
- Electronic Health Record Interfaces: Improving medication reconciliation (Sumit Arora, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman)
- PQUIS: Physician Questionnaire for User Interface Satisfaction (Kent Norman, Meirav Taieb, Catherine Plaisant)
- WORKSHOP: Electronic Health Record Informatics (Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant)
- WORKSHOP: Consumer Health Informatics Aging, culture and technology (Bo Xie)
For attendees focusing on VISUALIZATION:
- Visual Temporal Analysis: LifeFlow for medical and transportation data (Krist Wongsuphasawat, et al.)
- Visual Analysis at Twitter - Keynote (Jimmy Lin)
- Innovation Trajectories for Information Visualizations: Comparing Treemaps, Cone Trees, and Hyperbolic Trees (Cody Dunne, Ben Shneiderman)
- Visual Comparison of Trees (John Alexis Guerra Gomez)
- Visualization in Transportation: Visual analytics, serious gaming, emergency management, and real-time dashboards (Michael Pack)
- Visual Comparison of Probablistic Graph Using Three Coordinated Views (Awalin Sopan, Hossam Sharara, Galileo Namata, Lise Getoor)
- EventGraphs: Mapping the Social Structure of Events with NodeXL (Derek Hansen)
- Visualizing the Temporal Evolution of Networks (Jae-Wook Ahn, Ben Shneiderman)
For attendees focusing on INTERACTION DESIGN & CHILDREN:
- The Social and Cognitive Experiences of Child Technology Design Partners (Mona Leigh Guha)
- DisCo: A distributed co-design environment for children (Greg Walsh)
- How Adolescents Search the Web: A pilot study (Beth Foss, Allison Druin)
- Sharing Stories "in the wild:" A mobile storytelling case study (Beth Bonsignore)
- How Social Media Affects Youth Development (June Ahn)
- Allowing Students Access to Social Media (June Ahn)
- Kitchen Chemistry and Beyond: A case in developing technology for life relevant learning (Tammy Clegg, Jason Yip)
- Learning about Ethical Decision-Making by Playing and Building Cases (Kenneth R. Fleischmann, et. al.)
- TUTORIAL: New Methods for Designing with and for the iChild (Mona Leigh Guha)
For EVERYONE interested in Human-Computer Interaction:
- HCI: The future is now (Allison Druin)
- Interfaces for Reading News and News Coverage of Events (Earl Wagner)
- Collective Creativity (Mary Lou Maher)
- Sikuli: Pixel-based Interaction for Automation, Search, and Help (Tom Yeh)
- The Design of an Alternate Reality Game: The arcane gallery of gadgetry (Beth Bonsignore, Kari Kraus)
- Using Online Games to Integrate Human and Computer Vision (Darcy Lewis, Arijit Biswas)
- Crowdsourcing Translation with Monolingual Participants (Chang Hu, Ben Bederson)
- Investigative Reporters' Uses of Government Databases (Ira Chinoy)
- Crowdsourcing Decision Support (Alex Quinn)
- Learning about Ethical Decision-Making by Playing and Building Cases (Kenneth R. Fleischmann, et. al.)
- Toward Interaction Grounded in Cognition (Tim Clausner)
- TUTORIAL: Introduction to Usability Testing (Bill Killam)
- TUTORIAL: Introduction to iPhone Development (Ben Bederson)
- TUTORIAL: Crowdsourcing with Amazon Mechanical Turk (Alex Quinn, Tom Yeh)
- TUTORIAL: Entrepreneurship (Alla Corey)
Even more topics will be presented in our demos, posters and videos.
Special thanks to our sponsors:
- SAP
- Palantir
- Washington Post Company
- Deloitte
- TIBCO Spotfire
- TELUS Health Solutions
- Interactions
- Virtusa
- Laureate Education
- Net E Solutions
- Optimal Solutions Group
- Discovery Logic
- IBM Research
University of Maryland Sponsors:
- Department of Computer Science
- Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship
- College of Information Studies-Maryland's iSchool
- College of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences
- Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
Charley Lewittes
Coordinator, HCIL
hcil-info@cs.umd.edu
www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/soh
