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(Video) Driving Economic Growth: UMD Task Force Explores AI’s Role in Job Creation for Prince George’s County
March 14, 2025 | INFO StaffINFO's Keith Marzullo and Vanessa Frias-Martinez play key roles in AI-driven initiatives to drive economic growth Prince George’s Cou …
UMIACS: Reimagining the Future of Historical Research, One Box at a Time (ft. Doug Oard)
October 14, 2024 | UMD | UMIACS StaffUMD researchers develop AI tools to streamline archival searches, revolutionizing historical document access
Press Release: Best Practices & Collaborative Strategies in Digital Equity: Get Ready for the 2024 Maryland Statewide Digital Equity Summit
September 26, 2024 | Julie Slivka | University of Maryland ExtensionExperts will gather at the 2024 Maryland Digital Equity Summit to share strategies for advancing digital inclusion.
(Video) OTTRS Speaker Series: “Interactive Team Cognition for Humans and Machines”
June 5, 2024 | Maia JohnstonFeaturing Human Systems Engineer Dr. Nancy J. Cooke of Arizona State University
(Video) Dean’s Lecture Series: Game-Changers: Unleashing the Power of Sports Informatics in Athletics
May 29, 2024 | Maia JohnstonPanelists discuss the game changing unification of sports and data
(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
Dr. Samantha Dubrow
(Video) OTTRS Speaker Series: Human-Machine Teaming: What Skills Do the Humans Need?
April 7, 2023 | UMD INFO StaffThe presentation highlights the human traits and abilities that maximize human-machine teaming effectiveness.
Daniel Greene: Rethinking How Schools, Libraries, and Community Orgs Tackle Poverty
October 10, 2022 | Mia K. HinckleCan a community barbeque be more beneficial to citizens than learning computing skills? Insights from INFO Assistant Professor Daniel G …
Dual video conferencing in the proposed remote study design. While interacting with a testbed on a smartphone, a blind participant wearing smart glasses communicates with the experimenter through dual video conferencing. Two video streams are being sent to the experimenter: one from the participant’s smart glasses (a pair of Vuzix blade with the camera located on the top right corner) and the other from a laptop camera facing the participant on the same Zoom call.
Covid-19 Pandemic Moves Research on Assistive Technologies From the Lab to People’s Homes
April 26, 2022 | Liz ZogbyDr. Hernisa Kacorri’s research on object recognizers with blind participants required a pivot to remote usability testing, leading he …