Faculty / Staff
Faculty
June Ahn
iSchool
Impact of communication technologies in education policy and student learning. In particular (a) the policies and practices of K-12 cyber schools, and (b) the effect of social media on youth learning and information behavior.
Benjamin B. Bederson
Computer Science
Information visualization, interaction strategies, digital libraries, and accessibility issues such as voting system usability.
Ira Chinoy
Journalism
Computer-assisted reporting, investigative journalism, overcoming barriers for access to public records, archives as resources for journalists, history of journalism and emerging media, history of information.
Timothy C. Clausner
iSchool
Cognitive science. Meaning representation and cognitive processes in language, vision, and human computer interaction. Information visualization. Semantic theory linked with perceptual processes.
Tammy Clegg
Education
Study the design of educational technology to promote learner identity development.
Allison Druin
iSchool
Children's interface technologies, educational applications, children as design partners, digital libraries, mobile computing, online communities.
Leah Findlater
iSchool
Personalized interfaces, interaction techniques, assistive technology, and information and communication technologies for development.
Neil Fraistat
English
Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH): digital humanities, electronic editing, interactive literature, networked interfaces for electronic publication, social computing, gaming.
Jon Froehlich
Computer Science
I am interested in designing, building, and evaluating technology to address high-impact social problems such as environmental sustainability, personal health and well-being, and computer accessibility. My research often involves topics from persuasive technology, behavioral and environmental psychology, personal informatics, mobile health (mHealth), and sustainable HCI.
Jennifer Golbeck
iSchool
Social Networks, trust, intelligent interfaces, emergency and disaster response systems
Evan Golub
Computer Science
Educational technology, tablet-enhanced applications, ubiquitous computing, and creativity support tools.
Jeffrey Herrmann
Engineering
Operations research; public health preparedness; design and control of manufacturing systems; integration of product design and manufacturing system design; decision-making systems in product development
Paul T. Jaeger
iSchool
Information Law and Policy; E-government; Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities; Evaluation of Networked Information Systems; Social Theory and Information; Diversity and LIS Education
Matt Kirschenbaum
English
Digital humanities and new media, especially text visualization, text mining and text analysis, electronic literature and art, history of writing technologies, games.
Kari Kraus
iSchool
Digital humanities, virtual worlds, intellectual property, image search and retrieval, new models of scholarly communication.
Jimmy Lin
iSchool
Computational linguistics, information retrieval, question answering, search interfaces, theoretical linguistics.
Kent L. Norman
Psychology
Cognitive psychology, human judgment and decision making, human problem solving, cyberpsychology, human factors, electronic educational environments, menu selection, and navigation.
Douglas W. Oard
iSchool
Interactive information retrieval, esp. for spoken word materials, conversational text, and multilingual applications. User modeling, implicit feedback. Archival access to electronic records.
Michael L. Pack
Engineering
Intelligent Transportation Systems, Serious Games, Incident Management, Transportation Visualization, User Interface Design, Traveler Information, Image Processing.
Catherine Plaisant
UMIACS
User interface design and evaluation, information visualization, evaluation methods, public access, digital libraries.
Anne Rose
UMIACS
Information visualization and digital libraries with an emphasis on service oriented projects.
Galit Shmueli
Business
Information visualization in the context of data mining and statistics. Business analytics. Empirical modeling with application to eCommerce and biosurveillance.
Ben Shneiderman
Computer Science
Information visualization, user interface design, human-computer interaction theories, empirical methods, universal usability.
Martha Nell Smith
English
Professor of English and Founding Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), Executive Editor, Dickinson Electronic Archives projects; electronic and social editing; gender and ethnomethodology in digital humanities; visualization and data mining; feminist theory and knowledge production; queering the digital.
Ping Wang
iSchool
Information Technology Innovations, Science of Ideas, e-Social Sciences, Technology Entrepreneurship, Organizational and Technological Change, Science of Science Policy
Sarah Wayland
CASL
Spoken language processing by humans and machines; human computer interfaces for applications involving spoken language, including voice user interfaces and multi-modal applications; usability
Ann C. Weeks
iSchool
Digital libraries and children, development and use of digital resources in schools and libraries.
Research Staff
Jae-wook Ahn
Computer Science
Personalized/social information retrieval and (adaptive) social network information visualization
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