News & Events
You're in the right place to keep up with department news and upcoming events at the HCI Institute.
View our recent news stories below. Looking for an upcoming event? Visit our website calendar to view our public events, including our weekly Seminar Series on Friday afternoons.
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HCI students win Bose Challenge, Designing for Augmented Reality with Sound
More than 100 Carnegie Mellon University students participated in an on-campus challenge last month, designing solutions for an emerging f...
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PhD students contribute to Fall ACM XRDS issue on The Computer Scientist
Four Ph.D. students from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute contributed to the Fall 2018 issue of XRDS (Crossroads), the ACM Magazin...
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Human-Computer Interaction Institute Seeks Applicants for Summer Research Program
Information on the upcoming year is available on the 2020 Summer Research Program website. Application Dead...
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Inviting Clients for 2019 HCI Capstone Projects
Sponsors Needed for Student Projects The Human-Computer Interaction Institute is currently seeking client sponsors for spring semester 20...
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Kery, Myers Win Best Paper at VL/HCC for Verdant Prototype
Mary Beth Kery, PhD student, and Brad Myers, professor, won best paper at the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computi...
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Hacking for the Kids at UPMC, HCII students on 1st and 4th place teams
Almost 300 hackers gathered in the new Tepper Quad on October 5, many staying for 24 hours straight. If the thought of this many h...
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HCII Preparing for 24-Hour Charity Gaming Marathon
CMU Extra Life team to game for good again in 2018 From 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, November 10, until 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, November 11, som...
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Sound, Vibration Recognition Boost Context-Aware Computing
New methods help smart devices detect what’s happening around them Ubicoustics Smart devices can seem dumb if they don’t understand wher...
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WGU and CMU Partner to Develop AI-Enabled Career Guidance Technology
National Science Foundation awards universities $700,000 grant to kick off 3-year research project
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Student-Created Online Tool Wins $79K Grant from Mozilla
Wick Editor, a free and open-source tool for creating games, animation and interactive media, is the winner of a $79,120 grant from the Mo...
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"Innovation by Design" Awards Recognize Several in HCII
Several from Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute were honored by Fast Company in its annual Innovation ...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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,...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...