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June Ahn

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

Benjamin B. Bederson
Computer Science

Information visualization, interaction strategies, digital libraries, and accessibility issues such as voting system usability.

Ira Chinoy

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

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

Tammy Clegg
Education

Study the design of educational technology to promote learner identity development.

Allison Druin

Allison Druin
iSchool

Children's interface technologies, educational applications, children as design partners, digital libraries, mobile computing, online communities.

Leah Findlater

Leah Findlater
iSchool

Personalized interfaces, interaction techniques, assistive technology, and information and communication technologies for development.

Neil Fraistat

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

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

Jennifer Golbeck
iSchool

Social Networks, trust, intelligent interfaces, emergency and disaster response systems

Evan Golub

Evan Golub
Computer Science

Educational technology, tablet-enhanced applications, ubiquitous computing, and creativity support tools.

Mona Leigh Guha

Mona Leigh Guha
iSchool

Technology and design methods for children and families

Jeffrey Herrmann

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

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

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

Kari Kraus
iSchool

Digital humanities, virtual worlds, intellectual property, image search and retrieval, new models of scholarly communication.

Jimmy Lin

Jimmy Lin
iSchool

Computational linguistics, information retrieval, question answering, search interfaces, theoretical linguistics.

Kent L. Norman

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

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

Michael L. Pack
Engineering

Intelligent Transportation Systems, Serious Games, Incident Management, Transportation Visualization, User Interface Design, Traveler Information, Image Processing.

Catherine Plaisant

Catherine Plaisant
UMIACS

User interface design and evaluation, information visualization, evaluation methods, public access, digital libraries.

Jennifer Preece

Jennifer Preece
iSchool

Anne Rose

Anne Rose
UMIACS

Information visualization and digital libraries with an emphasis on service oriented projects.

Galit Shmueli

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

Ben Shneiderman
Computer Science

Information visualization, user interface design, human-computer interaction theories, empirical methods, universal usability.

Martha Nell Smith

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

Ping Wang
iSchool

Information Technology Innovations, Science of Ideas, e-Social Sciences, Technology Entrepreneurship, Organizational and Technological Change, Science of Science Policy

Sarah Wayland

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

Ann C. Weeks
iSchool

Digital libraries and children, development and use of digital resources in schools and libraries.



Research Staff

Jae-wook Ahn

Jae-wook Ahn
Computer Science

Personalized/social information retrieval and (adaptive) social network information visualization

Melissa Carrier

Melissa Carrier
Business

Associate Director, Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship



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Charley Lewittes

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