January 12, 2016
HCII researchers take center stage in the article "Educational Engagement" featured this week on the Carnegie Mellon News website. The article discusses work ... Read more
January 8, 2016
In 2016, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg aims to build an AI software assistant for his home that can recognize his voice, the cries of his child and the faces of any friends who stop by. But he also wants to include a virtual reality headset that would connect to the AI ... Read more
January 4, 2016
Traditional education models generally revolve around lectures, but new findings from HCII Professor Ken Koedinger and a team of Carnegie Mellon researchers shows that lectures aren't nearly as ... Read more
November 11, 2015
A team from the HCII and Disney Research has developed a technology that could enable smartwatches to automatically recognize the objects users are touching, and more than 80 news outlets have picked up or mentioned the story.
The technique, ... Read more
November 3, 2015
HCII researchers have found a way to produce hair-like strands, fibers and bristles using a common, low-cost 3-D printer — and the world has noticed. Since the ... Read more
October 26, 2015
Artificially intelligent software is changing the face of the American classroom, and Slate's recent article ... Read more
August 12, 2015
While you might breathe a sigh of relief when you hear that classified data wasn't stolen in a data breach or cyberattack, that news isn't always as reassuring as you think. HCII Associate Professor Jason Hong ... Read more
July 31, 2015
The HCII is leading the charge as Carnegie Mellon researchers work with colleagues at other universities to turn the CMU campus into a living ... Read more
July 31, 2015
Computing has become more accessible to people with disabilities in the past 25 years, but it still has a long way to go before it becomes something more than just an afterthought. In a recent Voice of America article, ... Read more
July 31, 2015
"LearnSphere, a new $5 million federally funded project at Carnegie Mellon University, aims to become 'the biggest open repository of education data' in the world," begins the Hechinger Report article ... Read more
June 26, 2015
HCII Associate Professor Jennifer Mankoff recently appeared on Pittsburgh's NPR affiliate, 90.5 WESA-FM, to discuss EDigs, a new CMU resource that uses machine learning technologies to estimate utility costs ... Read more
May 29, 2015
A recent article in U.S.News &World Report explored whether video games can help solve public health problems. HCII Assistant Professor ... Read more
May 28, 2015
Last summer, a team of HCII master's student teamed up with the Animal Rescue League to create a website that helps members of the community control feral cat ... Read more
May 19, 2015
The Harvard Business Review's June cover story, "When Your Boss Wears Metal Pants," investigates the social constraints that have to be overcome before robots or other thinking ... Read more
May 18, 2015
The HCII introduced its master of human-computer interaction degree in 1994 — the first degree of its kind at any institution. Now, more than two decades later, MHCI programs exist all over the ... Read more
May 12, 2015
HCII research presented last month at the Association for Computing Machinery’s Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI2015) made headlines in everything from The Economist to Gizmodo. Here's a ... Read more
April 22, 2015
Work presented by HCII Director Anind Dey, Systems Scientist Seungjun Kim and Visiting Scholar Jaemin Chun at the Association for Computing ... Read more
March 30, 2015
Associate Professor Jason Hong recently appeared in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article that discussed the often-surprising ways in which smartphone apps access personal information. The article, ... Read more
March 23, 2015
February 16, 2015
It's easy to think that someone who posts a rude comment on a web article or forum is a probably just a rude person in general, but Hillman Professor of Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction Sara Kiesler ... Read more
