May 29-30, 2008
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Symposium
May 29, 2008
Symposium
SESSION I: Books of the Future
Bookscapes: Modeling Books in Electronic Space
The International Children's Digital Library goes to Mongolia
Improving Readability of Online Books
Accurately Transcribing Text with Armies of
Inaccurate Volunteers
ebooks
Tutorials and Workshops
May 30, 2008
TUTORIALS
Intro to Human-Computer Interaction
Introduction to Usability Testing
Introduction to Spoken Language Technologies
Using Virtual Worlds
SESSION II: Diverse Users
e-Health Literacy & Older Adults
Children's Self-Conception of Culture through Technology
Constructing Knowledge in a Public Forum: Student Projects
in Wikipedia
Educational Simulation and Information Ethics
Community Response Grids: For Campus and Beyond
WORKSHOPS
e-Health Literacy & Older Adults
Value Sensitive Design & Digital Libraries
Temporal Search in Electronic Health Records
SESSION III: Understanding Information
Temporal Queries on Electronic Health Records
Network Visualization: Successful Case Studies
Understanding Social Networks
Visualizations for Searching and Exploring Document
Collections
Cloud Computing: Web-scale Information Processing with
MapReduce
Keynote Panel
25 years of HCI - 25 years of HCIL
DEMONSTRATIONS
All interfaces introduced during the symposium will be
demonstrated, along with several others.
PANELISTS
Richard Anderson, Editor-in-Chief,
Interactions Magazine
Ken Perlin, Founding Director & Professor,
NYU Media Research Lab
Clare-Marie Karat, Research Staff,
Policy Technologies Dept.,
IBM TJ Watson Research Center
PANEL MODERATOR
Allison Druin, Director, HCIL
Special Thanks to Our Sponsors
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University of Maryland Sponsors: Dingman Center for
Entrepreneurship, Department of Computer Science, Department
of Psychology, Maryland Institute for Technology in the
Humanities, College of Information Studies, College of Computer,
Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Institute for Advanced
Computer Studies
Included with paid registration:
Special Issue of the International Journal of HCI
in honor of Ben Shneiderman’s 60th birthday
Human-Computer Interaction Lab
www.cs.umd.edu/hcil
HCIL is an Institute for Advanced Computer Studies Lab