Human-computer interaction research at the University of Maryland

The Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL) is a unit of the Center for Automation Research at the Univesity of Maryland. HCIL is an interdisciplinary research group whose participants are faculty in the Departments of Computer Science and Psychology and the Colleges of Library and Information Services, Business, and Education. In addition, staff scienctists, graduate students, and undergraduates contribute to this small, but lively community that pursues empirical studies of people using computers.Our support comes from industrial research projects, government grants, the State of Maryland, and the University of Maryland. Projects often become interrelated in surprising ways enabling individuals to cooperate constructively. Some of our efforts during the past year are described below.