Brown Bag Lunch Schedule

The HCIL has an open, semi-organized weekly "brown bag lunch (BBL)" every Thursday from 12:30-1:30pm in HCIL (2105 Hornbake, South Wing). The topics range from someone's work, current interests in the HCIL, software demos/reviews, study design, proposed research topics, introductions to new people, 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. There is no RSVP; simply show up!

If you would like to give or suggest a talk, presentation, workshop, etc., send an email to BBL student co-coordinators Sriram Karthik Badam (sbadam@umd.edu) or Pavithra Ramasamy (pavithra.ramasamy94@gmail.com). In the email, briefly describe the topic and preferred dates.

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Spring 2018 Schedule

Date	Leader	Topic
01/25/2018	Kickoff to a new Semester!	Come, network, make introductions, and share what you are working on Please come to our first BBL of the Spring 2018 semester to introduce yourself and share what you're working on in the coming semester. The first BBL will be for us to network with each other and kickoff a great new semester.
02/01/2018	Bahador Saket Georgia Tech, Atlanta	Visualization by Demonstration Abstract: A commonly used interaction paradigm in most visualization tools is manual view specification. Tools implementing manual view specification often require users to manually specify visual properties through GUI operations on collections of visual properties and data attributes that are presented visually on control panels. To interact with tools implementing manual view specification users need to understand the potentially complex system parameters being controlled. Additionally, in such tools, users need to constantly shift their attention from the visual features of interest when interacting. In this talk, I present an alternative interaction paradigm for visualization construction and data exploration called visualization by demonstration. This paradigm advocates for a different process of visualization construction. I will also discuss the trade-offs between these interaction paradigms based on the data collected from an empirical study. I will then discuss applications of the "by demonstration’" paradigm in other areas in data visualization. Bio: Bahador Saket is a third-year Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech, where he works with Dr. Alex Endert. His current research focuses on the design of interaction techniques for visualization construction and visual data exploration. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, Bahador worked at different research labs including Microsoft Research, CNS Research Center, and NUS-HCI Lab. He has published over 12 peer-reviewed articles in the leading journals and conferences in the field of human-computer interaction and data visualization such as IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), Computer Graphics Forum, CSCW, UIST, and MobileHCI.
02/08/2018	Speaker TBD	TBD TBD
02/15/2018	Erin Peters-Burton George Mason University, Fairfax, VA	TBD TBD
02/22/2018	Norman Su Indiana University	TBD TBD
03/01/2018	Ya-Wei Li Center for Conservation Innovation, Defenders of Wildlife	TBD TBD
03/08/2018	Deok Gun Park University of Maryland, College Park	TBD TBD
03/15/2018	TBA	TBD TBD
03/22/2017	No Brown Bag, Spring Break.
03/29/2018	Eun-Kyoung Choe University of Maryland, College Park	TBD TBD
04/05/2018	TBA	TBD TBD
04/12/2018	CHI practice talks	TBD TBD
04/19/2018	TBA	TBD TBD
04/26/2018	Hernisa Kacorri University of Maryland, College Park	TBD TBD
05/03/2018	Amanda Lazar University of Maryland, College Park	TBD TBD
05/10/2018	Joel Chan University of Maryland, College Park	TBD TBD
05/17/2018	TBA	TBD TBD

Past Brown Bags

View the Past Brown Bag Lunch Schedules to learn more about prior talks.