Faculty Listed by Research
Communities
Neil Fraistat
English
Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH): digital humanities, electronic editing, interactive literature, networked interfaces for electronic publication, social computing, gaming.
Jennifer Golbeck
iSchool
Social Networks, trust, intelligent interfaces, emergency and disaster response systems
Martha Nell Smith
English
Professor of English and Founding Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), Executive Editor, Dickinson Electronic Archives projects; electronic and social editing; gender and ethnomethodology in digital humanities; visualization and data mining; feminist theory and knowledge production; queering the digital.
Design Process
Tammy Clegg
Education
Study the design of educational technology to promote learner identity development.
Allison Druin
iSchool
Children's interface technologies, educational applications, children as design partners, digital libraries, mobile computing, online communities.
Kent L. Norman
Psychology
Cognitive psychology, human judgment and decision making, human problem solving, cyberpsychology, human factors, electronic educational environments, menu selection, and navigation.
Sarah Wayland
CASL
Spoken language processing by humans and machines; human computer interfaces for applications involving spoken language, including voice user interfaces and multi-modal applications; usability
Digital Humanities
Neil Fraistat
English
Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH): digital humanities, electronic editing, interactive literature, networked interfaces for electronic publication, social computing, gaming.
Matt Kirschenbaum
English
Digital humanities and new media, especially text visualization, text mining and text analysis, electronic literature and art, history of writing technologies, games.
Kari Kraus
iSchool
Digital humanities, virtual worlds, intellectual property, image search and retrieval, new models of scholarly communication.
Catherine Plaisant
UMIACS
User interface design and evaluation, information visualization, evaluation methods, public access, digital libraries.
Martha Nell Smith
English
Professor of English and Founding Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), Executive Editor, Dickinson Electronic Archives projects; electronic and social editing; gender and ethnomethodology in digital humanities; visualization and data mining; feminist theory and knowledge production; queering the digital.
Digital Libraries
Benjamin B. Bederson
Computer Science
Information visualization, interaction strategies, digital libraries, and accessibility issues such as voting system usability.
Allison Druin
iSchool
Children's interface technologies, educational applications, children as design partners, digital libraries, mobile computing, online communities.
Neil Fraistat
English
Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH): digital humanities, electronic editing, interactive literature, networked interfaces for electronic publication, social computing, gaming.
Jimmy Lin
iSchool
Computational linguistics, information retrieval, question answering, search interfaces, theoretical linguistics.
Douglas W. Oard
iSchool
Interactive information retrieval, esp. for spoken word materials, conversational text, and multilingual applications. User modeling, implicit feedback. Archival access to electronic records.
Catherine Plaisant
UMIACS
User interface design and evaluation, information visualization, evaluation methods, public access, digital libraries.
Martha Nell Smith
English
Professor of English and Founding Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), Executive Editor, Dickinson Electronic Archives projects; electronic and social editing; gender and ethnomethodology in digital humanities; visualization and data mining; feminist theory and knowledge production; queering the digital.
Ann C. Weeks
iSchool
Digital libraries and children, development and use of digital resources in schools and libraries.
Education
June Ahn
iSchool
Impact of communication technologies in education policy and student learning. In particular (a) the policies and practices of K-12 cyber schools, and (b) the effect of social media on youth learning and information behavior.
Tammy Clegg
Education
Study the design of educational technology to promote learner identity development.
Allison Druin
iSchool
Children's interface technologies, educational applications, children as design partners, digital libraries, mobile computing, online communities.
Neil Fraistat
English
Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH): digital humanities, electronic editing, interactive literature, networked interfaces for electronic publication, social computing, gaming.
Evan Golub
Computer Science
Educational technology, tablet-enhanced applications, ubiquitous computing, and creativity support tools.
Kent L. Norman
Psychology
Cognitive psychology, human judgment and decision making, human problem solving, cyberpsychology, human factors, electronic educational environments, menu selection, and navigation.
Martha Nell Smith
English
Professor of English and Founding Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), Executive Editor, Dickinson Electronic Archives projects; electronic and social editing; gender and ethnomethodology in digital humanities; visualization and data mining; feminist theory and knowledge production; queering the digital.
Ann C. Weeks
iSchool
Digital libraries and children, development and use of digital resources in schools and libraries.
Innovation, Discovery, and Creativity
Douglas W. Oard
iSchool
Interactive information retrieval, esp. for spoken word materials, conversational text, and multilingual applications. User modeling, implicit feedback. Archival access to electronic records.
Ben Shneiderman
Computer Science
Information visualization, user interface design, human-computer interaction theories, empirical methods, universal usability.
Ping Wang
iSchool
Information Technology Innovations, Science of Ideas, e-Social Sciences, Technology Entrepreneurship, Organizational and Technological Change, Science of Science Policy
Physical Devices
Allison Druin
iSchool
Children's interface technologies, educational applications, children as design partners, digital libraries, mobile computing, online communities.
Public Access
Paul T. Jaeger
iSchool
Information Law and Policy; E-government; Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities; Evaluation of Networked Information Systems; Social Theory and Information; Diversity and LIS Education
Catherine Plaisant
UMIACS
User interface design and evaluation, information visualization, evaluation methods, public access, digital libraries.
Ben Shneiderman
Computer Science
Information visualization, user interface design, human-computer interaction theories, empirical methods, universal usability.
Martha Nell Smith
English
Professor of English and Founding Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), Executive Editor, Dickinson Electronic Archives projects; electronic and social editing; gender and ethnomethodology in digital humanities; visualization and data mining; feminist theory and knowledge production; queering the digital.
Sarah Wayland
CASL
Spoken language processing by humans and machines; human computer interfaces for applications involving spoken language, including voice user interfaces and multi-modal applications; usability
Social and Ethical Implications
June Ahn
iSchool
Impact of communication technologies in education policy and student learning. In particular (a) the policies and practices of K-12 cyber schools, and (b) the effect of social media on youth learning and information behavior.
Jennifer Golbeck
iSchool
Social Networks, trust, intelligent interfaces, emergency and disaster response systems
Ben Shneiderman
Computer Science
Information visualization, user interface design, human-computer interaction theories, empirical methods, universal usability.
Martha Nell Smith
English
Professor of English and Founding Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), Executive Editor, Dickinson Electronic Archives projects; electronic and social editing; gender and ethnomethodology in digital humanities; visualization and data mining; feminist theory and knowledge production; queering the digital.
Ping Wang
iSchool
Information Technology Innovations, Science of Ideas, e-Social Sciences, Technology Entrepreneurship, Organizational and Technological Change, Science of Science Policy
Visualization
Benjamin B. Bederson
Computer Science
Information visualization, interaction strategies, digital libraries, and accessibility issues such as voting system usability.
Timothy C. Clausner
iSchool
Cognitive science. Meaning representation and cognitive processes in language, vision, and human computer interaction. Information visualization. Semantic theory linked with perceptual processes.
Jimmy Lin
iSchool
Computational linguistics, information retrieval, question answering, search interfaces, theoretical linguistics.
Catherine Plaisant
UMIACS
User interface design and evaluation, information visualization, evaluation methods, public access, digital libraries.
Ben Shneiderman
Computer Science
Information visualization, user interface design, human-computer interaction theories, empirical methods, universal usability.
Martha Nell Smith
English
Professor of English and Founding Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), Executive Editor, Dickinson Electronic Archives projects; electronic and social editing; gender and ethnomethodology in digital humanities; visualization and data mining; feminist theory and knowledge production; queering the digital.
