The International Children's Digital Library is in the news
Thanks to its new partnership with the One Laptop Per Child Foundation ($100 computer project). This includes: Washington Post.com, ABC News, CBS News, Forbes.com
UMD Kids Team goes to the White House!
Two of our design partners joined the President and First Lady for the Christmas Pagent of Peace to honor our Kidsteam design work on the National Park Junior Ranger program's Webrangers. It was televised live December 7th.
HCIL Service Grants
The Annual HCIL Service Grant Project is now accepting proposals.
HCIL Store
If you haven’t done your Holiday shopping yet look no further, there is now an online HCIL store.
The Computer Guy & Gal on the Kojo Nnamdi Show
On Dec.5th Ben Bederson and Allison Druin talked with Kojo on the best new children's tech for the holiday season.
The HCI User Advocate
Ben Bederson starts a blog. Join our former HCIL Director as he stands up for user-centered technology experiences
New HCIL Lab Director
Allison Druin has become the lab's new director. Ben Bederson (HCIL Director 2000-2006) will now focus his efforts on the ICDL Foundation and other research interests.
Monthly Research Profiles
RouteLens Is Your Personal Route Planning Consultant
People pick driving routes in different ways. I work out a good route and stick with it; for new trips I'll check online maps or my fat road atlas. But I doubt that my wife ever drives the same route twice -- her spirit of adventure takes her down new streets trying to avoid just one more traffic light.
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Industrial Visitors
Interested in an extended stay at the HCIL? Industrial visitors can spend six months or more learning about HCI working with us on active projects - such as recent visitors from Toyota, Toshiba and Hitachi.
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HCIL Seminar Series
Come hear our distinguished speakers throughout the semester.
2006 - 2007 Seminars
Featured Project
Piccolo 2D Toolkit
An open source toolkit for 2D structured graphics in C# and Java.
Who We Are
The Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL) at the University of Maryland designs, implements, and evaluates new interface technologies that are universally usable, useful, efficient and appealing to a broad cross-section of people. read more about the HCIL and it’s mission>
