HCIL Boasts Large Representation at Upcoming CHI 2015 Conference

A large number of students and faculty will represent the Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL) at ACM's upcoming CHI 2015 Conference in Seoul, Korea, April 18-23.

This year, HCIL has had 11 full papers and three Works-In-Progress (WIP) papers accepted into the conference. A research group headed up by Jon Froehlich, an assistant professor of computer science with appointments in UMIACS and HCIL, has three full papers and two WIPs accepted into the event, which span topics from wearable head-mounted displays to support sound awareness for the deaf and hard of hearing to a formative examination of automated thermographic inspections of buildings using robots and computer vision. The CHI 2015 program committee also recently announced best paper award winners, and two out of the three papers submitted by Froehlich's group won honorable mention "Best of CHI" awards.

Also at the conference, longtime HCIL and UMIACS member Catherine Plaisant will be inducted into the CHI Academy for her pioneering work in human-computer interaction and information visualization. Plaisant is the fourth CHI Academy member from HCIL—the three others are Ben Shneiderman, Ben Bederson and Jenny Preece.

Read more here about the papers that have been accepted into the conference.