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Five Projects Awarded the Inaugural SoDa Seed Grant
July 12, 2023 | Info StaffFunding provided to projects that seek to solve social media misinformation, vulnerable community infrastructure, and racial injustice

(Video) SoDa Symposium: A Dialogue at the Intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and Social Data Science Methods
April 21, 2023 | UMD INFO StaffINFO Professor Jen Golbeck and JPSM instructor Jen Romano spoke on a panel moderated by INFO Professor Wayne Lutters.

Baby Grogu on the Disney+ TV show, The Mandalorian
ARLIS Researchers Find a Way to Measure the “Cute” Factor on Social Media Content (ft. Susannah Paletz)
April 13, 2023 | UMD ARLIS StaffSocial media measurements are key to Susannah Paletz's project funded by the Minerva Research Initiative and the Office of Naval Resear …

Europe’s Data Privacy Revolution: How Civic Engagement is Impacting Implementation
March 31, 2023 | Laurie RobinsonA Q&A with INFO Assistant Professor Ido Sivan-Sevilla

Dr. Cody Buntain Appears on Voice of America to Discuss the Taliban’s Use of Twitter
August 18, 2022 | Mia K. HinckleResearch showing how the Taliban leveraged Twitter, and Twitter’s limited management of this, was shared with Voices of America’s g …

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(Video) GEM Analytics Industry Expert Series: Data and Its Application in a Streaming Media Company
May 3, 2022 | iSchool News StaffHow data is used at a streaming media company to shape the future of content.

Can a Strategy Game Help AI Learn to Spot Scammers?
April 27, 2022 | Maria HerdiSchool Associate Professor, Dr. Jordan Boyd-Graber, joins team of researchers awarded $1M to support U.S. Military’s cybersecurity f …

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 …

iSchool Hosts 5th Annual Info Challenge
April 7, 2022 | Hayleigh MooreThis week-long event engaged students from across the region in cybersecurity, design, and data analytics projects to tackle real-world …