For the Press
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Press Coverage in 2011
Jennifer Preece received the Association for Computing Machinery Computer-Human Interaction Academy award, May 9, 2011.
The mobile app contest Ben Bederson ran is discussed in Converge Magazine, “Music Apps Take Top Prizes in U of Maryland Contest,” April 28, 2011.
The University of Maryland’s mobile app contest, which Ben Bederson ran, was discussed (in Persian) by Do Noghte Sefr in Voice of America “Mobility Initiative ابتکار تحرک,” April 26, 2011.
Megan Monroe and Jonathan Speiser win the University of Maryland’s Mobility Programming Contest with their mobile app, Jam My Jam, April 25, 2011.
The University of Maryland’s mobile app contest, run by Ben Bederson, was discussed in The Washington Post, “Business Rx: A jukebox democracy in search of voters,” April 24, 2011.
Ben Shneiderman was interviewed by Dave Logan and Lois Melkonian about information visualization on KOA News Radio based on the New York Times article from the previous Sunday, April 5, 2011.
Bo Xie was interviewed about her Electronic Health Information for Life-Long Learners (eHILLL) research project by IMI’s TechTalk radio show, "Electronic Health Information for Life-long Learners (eHILLL)", April 3, 2011.
Ben Shneiderman and his work on Treemaps with the Hive Group were mentioned in the New York Times, “When the Data Struts Its Stuff,” April 3, 2011.
Jennifer Preece and Ben Shneiderman won the Best Paper Award in AIS Transactions on HCI for their paper on, “The Reader-to-Leader Framework: Motivating Technology-Mediated Social Participation, March 31, 2011. ”
Allison Druin was quoted in The New America Foundation, “Young Kids and the Popularity of ‘Digital Portability,’” March 24, 2011.
Ben Shneiderman wins 2011 Miles Conrad Award at the NFAIS 52rd Annual Conference in Philadelphia, PA, February 28, 2011.
Ben Bederson’s MonoTrans project was featured in New Scientist, “Crowdsourced translations get the word out from Libya,” February 25, 2011.
Yakov Kronrod, Chang Hu, Olivia Buzek, and Alex Quinn’s poster, “Using Monolingual Crowds to Improve Translation,” won a category at the 2011 AAAS Student Poster Competition, February 21, 2011.
Michael Pack’s CATT Lab work was mentioned in The Washington Post, “New Greenbelt Operations Center Will Help Manage Traffic and Transit throughout D.C. region,” February 16, 2011.
Megan Monroe’s PulsART iPad application was featured in the Diamondback, "Creativity at her Fingertips," February 10, 2011.
Bo Xie, Mo Wang, and Bob Feldman won the Best Paper Award at the iConference in Seattle for their paper, “Preferences for health information and decision-making: development of the Health Information Wants (HIW) questionnaire,” February 10, 2011.
Ben Shneiderman was quoted in Federal Computer Week, “4 Natural Advances in the Evolution of Gov 2.0,” February 8, 2011.
Ben Bederson joined WAMU’s Kojo Nnamdi Show for an hour to discuss “A Revolution in Tech Jobs? The Murky World of Online Labor,” February 8, 2011.
Greg Walsh was interviewed about distributed, asynchronous co-design with children on Kapp Notes, "A Conversation with Greg Walsh," January 26, 2011.
Jen Golbeck was interviewed about pets and social networks in National Public Radio’s “The Animal House,” January 16, 2011.
Allison Druin and Ben Bederson’s StoryKit app was featured in The New York Times, "Top Pics for Apps to Help You While Away the Minutes," December 23, 2010.
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