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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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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Sara Kiesler Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Sara Kiesler, Hillman Chair Emerita of Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, has be...
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PhD and Postdoc Win Gold Awards at Reimagine Education Competition
Using mixed-reality to reimagine the classroom from both sides -- an Intelligent Science Station for students and smart glasses for teache...
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HCII Team Tests Fitness Tracker for Wheelchair Athletes at NWBT
“It’s like all of March Madness in one weekend,” said Patrick Carrington, postdoctoral research fellow at the Human-Computer Interaction I...
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The Shape of Pasta: HCII Assistant Professor Morphs Matter
Lining Yao came of age in a small village in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Like most families in her town, she didn't have a...
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Support HCI Team and Stroke Patients by Voting in Chasing Genius Innovation Challenge
Uprooting beets on an augmented reality farm could soon help recovering stroke victims improve their motor skills if a team of human-compu...
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Blanket Statements: Covering a Quarter-Century of Wearable Tech
Look closer -- the sixteen squares of a quilt found in 3513 Newell-Simon Hall share a quarter-century of technological developments and th...
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Spring Capstones in Full Swing at HCII
For several of the majors in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, the spring semester is synonymous with capstone projects.
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Networking Event Connects HCI Students with Employers
From undergrads to PhDs, more than 110 students attended the Human-Computer Interaction Institute’s informal networking event, HCI...
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SCS Scientists Receive Sloan Research Fellowships
School of Computer Science faculty members Chris Harrison, Bryan Parno, Andrew Pavlo and Andreas Pfenning have received 2018 Sloan Resear...
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HCII Welcomes First Alumni & Corporate Relations Coordinator
Human-Computer Interaction Institute alumni may have noticed that messages from the alumni listserv are coming from a new, yet familiar na...
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Crowd Workers, AI Make Conversational Agents Smarter
Conversational agents such as Siri, Alexa and Cortana are great at giving you the weather, but flummoxed when asked for unusual informatio...
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$2.5m grant received to study the science of teaching
A new, five-year, $2.5 million research grant from the James S. McDonnell Foundation has been awarded to a team led by Carnegie Mellon Uni...
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Valencia named to “Innovators Under 35 Latin America 2017”
First-year Human-Computer Interaction PhD student Stephanie Valencia Valencia was named to the MIT Tech Review’s Innovators under 35 Latin...
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Students apply computing skills to social causes in new course
Tiny lights flashed beside a cardboard replica of the Waterfront smokestacks as a new special topics course wrapped up the semester with f...