HCII News Archive

HCII students invited to CNBC's Meeting of the Minds

bspice — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:02:25 -0500

On Monday, November 30, you are invited to attend a free taping on campus of the CNBC special program, Meeting of the Minds.

Sesame Street Executives To Give Talk November 4

marian — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:04:46 -0400

Seven executives of Sesame Workshop, the non-profit group behind public television’s “Sesame Street,” will discuss the trailblazing show for pre-schoolers and about their re-launc

Carnegie Mellon Expands Mobile Learning Project in India

bspice — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:34:59 -0400

PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon Universit

Team Wins First Place at UIST 2009 Student Innovation Competition

Andrew Faulring — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:59:47 -0400

Julia Schwarz, a first year HCII PhD student, took First Place in the Most Creative category at this year's read more

HCII PhD students nab two top awards at Yahoo's Open Hack day in New York City

chrisharrison — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:20:25 -0400

Julia Schwarz, Bryan Pendleton, and read more

Can You Trust Crowd Wisdom?

kraut — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:20:46 -0400

Online recommendation systems can be distorted by a minority of users.

HCI student robbed but uses iPhone to catch culprits

kraut — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:12:38 -0400

News | Sabrina Porte

August 31, 2009

Noboru Matsuda and Ken Koedinger Receive $1.9M Grant from DoED and NSF

estewart — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:08:28 -0400

HCII faculty members Noboru Matsuda and Ken Koedinger (with William Cohen at
MLD and Gabriel Stylianides at Pitt) received new grants from the Institute

Bruce McLaren Receives $1.3M Department of Education Grant

estewart — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:33:11 -0400

HCII faculty member Bruce McLaren received a new grant from the U.S.
Department of Education IES program (IES=Institute of Education

Carnegie Mellon Announces Beta Release of Alice 3

bspice — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:46:07 -0400

Carnegie Mellon University today announced t

Vincent Aleven and Nikol Rummel Receive $1 M Grant

estewart — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:21:13 -0400

HCII faculty members Vincent Aleven and Nikol Rummel received a new
grant, from the NSF REESE program (REESE = Research and Evaluation on

HCII graduate student Martina Rau wins Best Student Paper Award at the 2009 AIED conference

Vincent Aleven — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:14:50 -0400

First-year HCII graduate student Martina Rau wins the Best Student Paper Award at the 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2009, which was held in Brighton, U

HCII Spinoff Carnegie Learning Announces International Partnership and Multiple Ed Tech Honors

Albert Corbett — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:45:39 -0400

Carnegie Mellon Develops Java Programming Tools Employing Human-Centered Design Techniques

Brad Myers — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:00:16 -0400

Researchers from the School of Computer Science have developed two new tools to help computer programmers select from among thousands of options within the application programming in

CMU had a great presence at CHI 2009

Anind Dey — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:38:37 -0400

Authors from Carnegie Mellon and the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, in particular, had a great presence at CHI 2009, the premier conference in Human-Computer Interaction.

Sara Kiesler awarded ACM SIGCHI's Lifetime Achievement Award

kraut — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:17:05 -0400

This year the Association of Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) presented its Lifetime Achievement Award to Sara Kiesler.

Chris Harrison's work awarded honorable mention in the NSF's Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge 2008

kraut — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:04:20 -0400

Chris Harrison's visualization work was selected as runner up (honorable mention) in the illustration category of the NSF/Science 2008

Salden and Vincent Aleven win Cognitive Science 2008 best paper award

kraut — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:56:44 -0400

Salden and Vincent Aleven of the HCI Institute, together with colleagues Alexander Renkl, and Rolf Schwonke from the University of Freiburg, Germany, won a best paper award at the Cognitive Scienc

Bilge Mutlu wins the Best Paper Award at the Human-Robot Interaction Conference

marian — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:12:37 -0400

Bilge Mutlu and his collaborators, Toshiyuki Shiwa, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro, and Norihiro Hagita, from ATR in Japan, won the Best Paper Award at the 2009 Human-Robot Interaction Conference fo

Ian Li Wins Smiley Award

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:10:19 -0500

PhD student Ian Li wins the 2009 SCS Smiley Award for innovation in technology-assisted person-to-person communication. Grafitter