Faculty / Staff
Faculty
Benjamin B. Bederson
Computer Science
Information visualization, interaction strategies, digital libraries, and accessibility issues such as voting system usability.
Allison Druin
Information Studies
Children's interface technologies, educational applications, children as design partners, digital libraries, mobile computing, online communities.
Ken Fleischmann
Information Studies
Social informatics, value-sensitive design, information ethics, educational software, computational modeling, digital libraries
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.
Jennifer Golbeck
Information Studies
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.
Don Heider
Journalism
Associate Dean, Associate Professor, Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Communications, Identity and the process of constructing reality.
Paul T. Jaeger
Information Studies
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
Information Studies
Digital humanities, virtual worlds, intellectual property, image search and retrieval, new models of scholarly communication.
Jimmy Lin
Information Studies
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
Information Studies
Interactive information retrieval, esp. for spoken word materials, conversational text, and multilingual applications. User modeling, implicit feedback. Archival access to electronic records.
Cynthia S. Parr
UMIACS
Information visualization, collaborative content-building, and semantic web for biological diversity, food webs, and behavioral ecology.
Catherine Plaisant
UMIACS
User interface design and evaluation, information visualization, evaluation methods, public access, digital libraries.
Yan Qu
Information Studies
Information Seeking and Organization, Sensemaking and Learning, Information System Design, Human Computer Interaction.
Anne Rose
UMIACS
Information visualization and digital libraries with an emphasis on service oriented projects.
Vibha Sazawal
Computer Science
Software design, esp. decision-making in software design; studying work practices and environments of software engineers.
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.
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
Information Studies
Digital libraries and children, development and use of digital resources in schools and libraries.
Bo Xie
Information Studies
Older adults' learning and use of computers and the Internet; computer literacy; lifelong learning; civic engagement; volunteering; social relationships; social support; health and well-being
Research Staff
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