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  • looking of the left side of a plane in flight, view of the left wing flying over snowcapped mountains

    Zhang and Yao earn MFI award for 4D printing

  • Ogan Named to World Economic Forum's Young Scientists 2018

    Amy Ogan, the Thomas and Lydia Moran Assistant Professor of Learning Science at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, has been named t...

  • Guo, Laput and Taylor, the 3 Innovation Fellows from the HCII, stand side by side in the lab

    Three from HCII named 2018-19 Innovation Fellows

    Carnegie Mellon University’s Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship has named Anhong Guo, Ph.D. candidate, Gierad Laput, Ph.D.

  • charts within the Sonify application as pictured on an iPhone screen in landscape position

    Prototyping Next-Generation Accessibility Tools with Bloomberg

    Over the last two years, Bloomberg’s UX team has partnered with Carnegie Mellon University Master of Human-Computer Interaction program an...

  • white paper actuators in front of black background

    Actuation Gives New Dimensions to an Old Material

    One of the oldest, most versatile and inexpensive of materials — paper — seemingly springs to life, bending, folding or flattening itself,...

  • SXSW 2019 panelpicker image

    Vote CMU in SXSW PanelPicker

    Each year, #CMUatSXSW shows Austin and the world how the work happening at Carnegie Mellon University is shaping the future.

  • 5 BHCI student members of Resy capstone team

    BHCI Alumnae Returns to Sponsor Capstone

    Aesha Shah had been working at the startup Resy for about a year, so the timing seemed right when she saw Professor Bob Kraut’s email seek...

  • Ken Koedinger speaks at the Educational Data Mining Conference 2018

    Several from HCII Involved with 2018 Educational Data Mining Conference

    From speaking to event planning, three members of the Carnegie Mellon University Human-Computer Interaction Institute contributed to the 1...

  • PhD students Madaio and Holstein with their awards at London Festival of Learning

    HCII PhD Students Return from London Festival of Learning with 3 Awards

    Many experts from the learning sciences and educational technologies communities gathered at the University College London (UCL) Institute...

  • panel and attendees at the alumni networking event

    HCII Hosts Event for Bay Area Alumni

    Less than 48 hours after going online, the tickets were gone. The tickets -- not for a concert, Broadway show or cross-town rivalry sport...

  • headshots of four HCII faculty: Kittur, Forlizzi, Rose and Myers

    Four from HCII Receive Google Faculty Research Awards

    Selected from more than one thousand proposals, four faculty members from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute have received 2017 Goog...

  • Louise Zhou headshot

    Zhou is Fulbright Winner

    Louise Zhou, who graduated last year with a double major in business administration and human-computer interaction, is one of five Carnegi...

  • Greg Coticchia

    Q&A with Greg Coticchia

    Greg Coticchia, the executive director of Carnegie Mellon University’s new Master of Science in Product Management program, recently discu...

  • Jessica Hammer receives the 2018 Teaching Innovation Award from the CMU provost

    Hammer Receives 2018 Teaching Innovation Award

    Jessica Hammer, assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, jointly appointed in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) an...

  • screenshot of the mobile-friendly Bento dashboard with color-coded search categories at the top of the screen

    Bento Browser Makes It Easier To Search On Mobile Devices

    Searches involving multiple websites can quickly get confusing, particularly when performed on a mobile device with a small screen. A new ...

  • Understanding The Cybersecurity Grapevine

    Social Networks Are Sources Of Security Tips  When people get word of an online data breach, men are far more likely to share that n...

  • a piece of flat, white plastic being dipped in warm water and folding into a rose

    Thermorph: Flat Materials Self-Fold When Heated

    Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have used an inexpensive 3-D printer to produce flat plastic items that, when heated, fold thems...

  • the Bronze Age Innovations display with digital rails in the front at the Field Museum

    Digital Exhibit Labels: Enhancement or Distraction for Museum Visitors

    Does a touchscreen display distract visitors from the cultural museum artifacts it supports? A team of learning scientists and computer ...

  • CHI 2018 in Montreal, Canada

    HCII at CHI 2018

    ​Over 3,000 of the world’s top researchers, scientists, and designers are traveling to Montréal this week for CHI 2018, the ACM CHI Confer...

  • Two men stand in front of a white wall. The locations of where they are touching the wall are visible on a nearby laptop screen.

    Paint Job Transforms Walls Into Sensors, Interactive Surfaces

    Smart Walls React to Human Touch, Sense Activity in Room Walls are what they are — big, dull dividers. With a few applications of conduct...