Recent News

Sep 25, 2016 | Matthew
The Makeability Lab and the HCIL are participating in the Silver Spring Maker Faire which is going on today from 12pm - 5pm. Our own Majeed Kazemitabaar will also be giving a special presentation on MakerWear as the "Maker in our Midst" at 2:15pm on the Main Stage. Full details are available here: http://www.makerfairesilverspring.com/

Sep 02, 2016 | Matthew
Our research group (the Makeability Lab in the HCIL) is investigating new, scalable methods and tools for thermographic data collection and analysis. We are looking for talented, creative, and self-motivated undergraduate research assistants with strong technical backgrounds and an interest in environmental sustainability to work on a new, easily deployable thermographic sensor. We are specifically looking for student volunteers interested in developing valuable hardware and software skills over the course of the academic year while supporting an ongoing research project. Interested students should have one or more of the following skills and a keen interest in expanding their abilities in some of the other areas: Experience working with single-board computers and accessories Experience designing front-end and back-end web components Experience prototyping applications with Android devices Eagerness to learn and make with rapid prototyping technologies You will be working in the HCIL Hackerspace, will attend weekly research meetings, and will join a team of other talented undergraduate and graduate students. Our short term goal is a publication at CHI2017 and a potential submission to UIST2017. For best consideration, please read this page about undergraduate research and then send your CV and unofficial transcripts to mattm401@umd.edu and CC jonf@cs.umd.edu by September 21st. We will contact a subset of qualified candidates to setup interviews and request other materials. Full details are available on our announcement webpage. Please feel free to forward this announcement.
Publications
Thermporal: An Easy-to-Deploy Temporal Thermographic Sensor System to Support Residential Energy Audits
Proceedings of CHI 2019 | Acceptance Rate: 23.8% (705 / 2960)
PDF | doi | Citation | Talk | Pervasive Thermography • Thermporal
A Large-Scale Analysis of YouTube Videos Depicting Everyday Thermal Camera Use
Proceedings of MobileHCI2018
PDF | doi | Citation | Talk | Pervasive Thermography
Designing and Evaluating Next-Generation Thermographic Systems to Support Residential Energy Audits
UMD CS PhD Dissertation
A Temporal Thermography System for Supporting Longitudinal Building Energy Audits
Extended Abstract Proceedings of Ubicomp 2017
PDF | doi | Citation | Pervasive Thermography • Thermporal
Scalable Methods and Tools to Support Thermographic Data Collection and Analysis for Energy Audits
Extended Abstract ACM Ubicomp 2017 Doctoral Colloquium
PDF | doi | Citation | Pervasive Thermography
Exploring Novice Approaches to Smartphone-based Thermographic Energy Auditing: A Field Study
Proceedings of CHI 2017 | Acceptance Rate: 25.0% (606 / 2424)
PDF | doi | Citation | Talk | Pervasive Thermography
The Future Role of Thermography in Human-Building Interaction
CHI 2016 Workshop: Future of Human-Building Interaction
Understanding the Role of Thermography in Energy Auditing: Current Practices and the Potential for Automated Solutions
Proceedings of CHI 2015 | Honorable Mention
PDF | doi | Citation | Pervasive Thermography
Towards Automated Thermal Profiling of Buildings at Scale Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and 3D-Reconstruction
Poster Proceedings of UbiComp 2014
PDF | doi | Citation | Pervasive Thermography
Social Fabric Fitness: The Design and Evaluation of Wearable E-Textile Displays to Support Group Running
Proceedings of CHI 2014
PDF | doi | Citation | Social Fabric Fitness
Talks
May 4, 2019 | CHI'19
Glasgow, UK
PDF | PPTX | Paper | Thermporal
Sept. 5, 2018 | MobileHCI 2018
Barcelona, Spain
PDF | PPTX | SlideShare | Paper | Pervasive Thermography
Aug. 1, 2018 | PhD Defense, Computer Science
University of Maryland, College Park
PDF | PPTX | Paper | Pervasive Thermography
May 9, 2017 | CHI2017
Denver, Colorado, USA
April 22, 2015 | CHI2015
Seoul, Republic of Korea
May 1, 2014 | CHI2014
Toronto, Canada