Brown Bag Lunch Schedule

The HCIL has an open semi-organized weekly "brown bag lunch (BBL)" on every Thursdays from 12:30-1:30pm in HCIL (2105 Hornbake, South Wing). The topics range from someone's work, current interest to the HCIL, a software demo/review, a study design, a proposed research topic, an introduction to a new person, etc. The BBL is the one hour a week where we all come together--thus, it’s a unique time for HCIL members with unique opportunities to help build collaborations, increase awareness of each other’s activities, and generally just have a bit of fun together with free food every week.

2013 fall, BBL will be transformed a bit to help increase engagement and strengthen ties in the HCIL community. There will be a wider range of sessions and each one will be organized a little differently than before. In doing so, Michael and Tak will take BBL student co-coordinator role.

To sign up for a session, send an email to BBL co-coordinators Michael Gubbels (mgubbels@umd.edu) or Tak Yeon Lee (tylee@umd.edu). In the email, briefly describe the topic and preferred dates.

We thank YAHOO! for its sponsorship of the HCIL Brown Bag Lunches.

Fall 2013

	Who	Type	Topic
Th, Sept 5	No Brown Bag. Rosh Hashanah.
Th, Sept 12	Jon Froehlich Assistant Professor in CS and HCIL faculty member http://www.cs.umd.edu/~jonf/	Talk/Discussion	HCIL Hackerspace
Th, Sept 19	Jeremy Pesner Recently graduated with a Master's in Communication, Culture & Technology from Georgetown University.	Talk	Discussion of recently-completed M.S. thesis on Making Better Internet Policy (And Preventing Future SOPAs): Lessons Learned from Stakeholder Input in the National Information Infrastructure Initiative.
Wed, Sept 25	Jonathan Donner	External Speaker
Th, Oct 3	Ed Cutrell	External Speaker
Th, Oct 10	Marshini Chetty Assistant Professor in iSchool and HCIL faculty member http://marshini.net	Talk
Th, Oct 17	Kotaro Hara CS PhD Student http://kotarohara.com/ Uran Oh CS PhD Student	ASSETS'13 Practice Talks	Talk 1: Improving Public Transit Accessibility for Blind Riders by Crowdsourcing Bus Stop Landmark Locations With Google Street View Talk 2: Follow That Sound: Using Sonification and Corrective Verbal Feedback to Teach Touchscreen Gestures
Th, Oct 24	Makeability Lab	Discussion	Reflective discussion of experience exhibiting projects at Silver Spring Mini-Maker Faire.
Th, Oct 31	Jen Goldbeck Associate Professor in the College of Information Studies, Affiliate Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department, Affiliate in the Center for the Advanced Study of Language, and HCIL Director http://www.cs.umd.edu/~golbeck/	Work In Progress Discussion	HCI and Cybersecurity
Th, Nov 7
Th, Nov 14
Th, Nov 21	June Ahn Assistant Professor in the College of Information Studies and College of Education (joint appointment), and HCIL faculty member http://www.ahnjune.com/	Work In Progress Discussion	Video Games, Blended Learning, and Large-scale Education Reform
Th, Nov 28	No Brown Bag. Happy Thanksgiving and Hanukkah.
Th, Dec 5
Th, Dec 12

Spring 2014

Date	Leader	Topic
Jan 30
Feb 6
Feb 13
Feb 20
Feb 27
Feb 28
March 6
March 13
March 20		No Brown Bag. Spring Break.
March 27
April 3
April 10
April 17
April 24
May 1		No Brown Bag. CHI 2014 from April 26 to May 1.
May 8

Sponsors

We thank YAHOO for its sponsorship of the HCIL Brown Bag Lunches

Past Brown Bags

The following are the past Brown Bag schedules.

Spring 2013

Date	Leader	Topic
Jan 24
Jan 31	John Gomez
Feb 7	Ben Bederson	Tools for synchronous crowdsourcing
Feb 14
Feb 21
Feb 28	Lisa Anthony (Host: Leah Findlater)	Gestural Interaction for Children
March 7	Awalin Sopan	Wrong Patient Selection Problem
March 14	Michael Smith-Welch? (Host Jon Froehlich)	Kids, Programming, and Makerspaces
March 21	Spring Break (No BBL)
March 28
April 4	Ben Bederson, Jon Froehlich, Leah Findlater	HCIL Discussion: Activities, BBL, email lists, etc.
April 11	Urah Oh, Anne Bowser	CHI Practice Talks: (1) Urah Oh (full paper) and (2) Anne Bowser (full paper)
April 18	Megan Monroe, Kotaro Hara	CHI Practice Talks: (1) Megan Monroe (full paper) and (2) Kotaro Hara (full paper)
April 25
May 2	CHI 2013 (No BBL)
May 9