The HCIL’s Annual Symposium and Open House will highlight the cutting-edge research being conducted in the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland. The event consists of a day of tutorials and workshops (Thursday, June 3rd) followed by the Symposium & Open House (Friday, June 4th)

** Register for the HCIL Symposium and Open House and receive 20% off registration for the Interaction Design and Children Conference on the University of Maryland, College Park campus on June 1-3. See http://www.idc2004.org for more conference information.gister for the Interaction

There will be a series of talks followed by demonstrations of all of the lab projects with time to meet and talk with researchers in an informal setting.

Pre-Symposium Events—June 3, 2004
Tutorials and Workshop
A.V. Williams Building

Symposium and Open House—June 4, 2004
Hoff Theater-Adele Stamp Student Union

We appreciate the sponsorship of:

AOL
The Hive Group
Microsoft Research
Intel
University of Maryland: Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, Department of Computer Science, College of Information Studies, Department of
Psychology, College of Computer, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences, Institute for Systems Research

MORNING	SYMPOSIUM

8:15am	Sign-in and Coffee

9:00am	Welcome: Ben Bederson, Director of HCIL
	Keynote Speaker: Jenny Preece, Online Communities
	Session I—Public Access Session Chair—Ben Shneiderman
	Enabling Citizen Access to Government Data through a Statistical Knowledge Network Ben Shneiderman
	Listening to Maps Haixia Zhao, Ben Smith
	Usability Methods Using Dual Monitors Kent Norman, Susan Campbell, and Walky Rivadeneira
	Show Me! Making Compelling Narrated Recordings that Explain User Interfaces Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant
BREAK
	Session II—Public Access II Session Chair—Douglas W. Oard
	Improving Access to Oral History Collections Douglas W. Oard
	Children’s Book Searching and Selection Behavior Using the International Children’s Digital Library Kara Reuter
	The Role of Books, Libraries, Technology, & Culture in Children’s Lives: An International Study Allison Druin, Ann Weeks, Sheri Massey, Adrienne LaGier
	Keeping Track of Notes with NoteLens Ben Bederson
	Improving Photo Annotation to Support Enriched Presentations Bongwon Suh, Jack Kustanowitz
LUNCH
Afternoon	Session III—Interaction & Visualization Session Chair—Catherine Plaisant
	ProofRite Dave Levin, Kevin Conroy, François Guimbretière
	CrossY : Crossing Interface System for the Tablet PC Georg Apitz
	Flipping as a Method of Digital Document Navigation Liyang Sun, François Guimbretière
	Benefits of Animated Scrolling Christian Klein, Ben Bederson
	Gene Chasing with the Hierarchical Clustering Explorer: Finding Meaningful Clusters in High Dimensional Data Jinwook Seo, Ben Shneiderman
	Understanding TimeSeries with TimeSearcher Aleks Aris, Catherine Plaisant
3:30-5:00pm	OPEN HOUSE—Demonstrations Projects will be demonstrated in the labs (free event). No registration is required. All interfaces introduced during the symposium will be demonstrated. In addition to those projects presented, the following will also be included in the afternoon demonstrations: DateLens: Scaleable Calendar Interface for PDAs Keeping Track of Notes with Notelens FamiliarFace: Using Annotations to Generate Presentations Data Visualization with Treemap TimeSearcher: Overview and Spikes in Time-Series Data Finding Meaningful Clusters with HCE Hazard Room International Children’s Digital Library TaxonTree and DoubleTree Photo Annotation and Photomesa Crossing Interface System for the Tablet PC A Demonstration of the Paper Augmented Digital Document System Online Comparison Shopping Listening to Maps: Spatial Audio Enabling Citizen Access to Government Data through a Statistical Knowledge Network Usability Methods Using Dual Monitors Improving Access to Oral History Collections A Tangible Interface for Document Navigation

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