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Maryland Today: UMD Tech Tool Aims to Make Workplaces More Inclusive for Autistic People (ft. Ge Gao)
October 12, 2023 | Maggie Haslam | UMDVideo Platform Designed by Neurodiverse Team Could Improve Communications for All
(Video) OTTRS Speaker Series: Virtual Team Creativity and Innovation
October 11, 2023 | INFO StaffDistinguished professor from University of Nebraska at Omaha gives a presentation about the psychological impacts of virtual work
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Maryland Today: ‘Beyond the Field’ Homecoming Address Takes on Promise—and Risks—of AI (ft. Jen Golbeck)
October 10, 2023 | Maryland Today Staff | UMDSystems Are Subject to Same Biases, Truthfulness Challenges as Society at Large
CAFe members and volunteers at the 2023 Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon (Photo Credit: Sarah Grun)
UMD Center for Archival Futures (CAFe) is Shaping Archives and Preservation
October 10, 2023 | INFO StaffCAFe aims to create access to cultural memory at previously unprecedented scales
(Video) Search Mastery: Maps, Models, and Metrics for Influence in Conflict Zones
October 10, 2023 | INFO StaffFeaturing INFO assistant professor Cody Buntain
ARLIS: UMD Researchers Measure Social Media Sharing with Emotions (ft. Susannah Paletz)
October 6, 2023 | UMD ARLIS Staff4,000+ Facebook posts were analyzed to determine the ability of different emotion models to predict post sharing.
(Video) Founders of Popular Crowdsourcing Transcription Software FromThePage Speak at CAFe Speaker Series
September 27, 2023 | INFO StaffSara Brumfield and Ben Brumfield talk about AI’s impact on archives at the recent INFO event
Recent Study Finds People with Dementia Use Changing Information Behaviors when Seeking Health Information
September 19, 2023 | Olivia BorgulaINFO Assistant Professor Amanda Lazar and a team of researchers studied how people with dementia search for health information after di …
As touchscreens proliferate in daily life, from coffee shops to airports, people who are blind or visually impaired are often unable to access important digital information. UMD researchers have developed a new robot that could help bridge the gap
Photo by iStock; Toucha11y photo courtesy of Jiasheng Li.
Maryland Today: An Ally for Access (ft. Huaishu Peng)
September 15, 2023 | Karen Shih ’09Palm-sized Robot Navigates Touchscreens for Visually Impaired Users