News & Events
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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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Carnegie Mellon Offers New Master's Degree in Product Management
Originally posted on www.cs.cmu.edu by Byron Spice 05/16/2017.
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3D Printing Project, Façade, presented this week at CHI
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CHI Preview: Researchers From HCII Believe Difficulty Can Be Overrated in Games.
Like the fickle Goldilocks, game players are said to seek a game experience that is not too hard and not too easy, but just challenging en...
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Synthetic Sensors Project Presented at CHI 2017
HCII Professor Chris Harrison and PhD students Gierad Laput and Yang Zhang have unveiled Synthetic Sensors, a sensing abstraction project ...
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CHI Preview: Variolite: Supporting Exploratory Programming by Data Scientists
When you are given a task with a number of possible approaches and no clear requirements, how do you get started? When faced with building...
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HCII @ CHI 2017
The Human-Computer Interaction Institute heads to Denver, Colo. for the 2017 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). T...
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MHCI Students Finalists in ACM SIGCHI 2017 Design Competition
In any given day, how many actions or activities do you complete without pausing to think? Whether it's remembering each step to make a cu...
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HCII Alumnus Jacob Wobbrock to Receive the SIGCHI Social Impact Award at CHI 2017
"Too often, people with disabilities have to adapt themselves to the ‘ability assumptions’ of their computing systems, but I wanted to rev...
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Game Puts You in Berlin During 1943 Women’s Protest of Nazi Germany
It is Feb. 27, 1943, in Berlin. Anneliese Edelman returns home with some fish, a rare treat for dinner. Her husband, Max, should be back ...
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Hong Shares 3 Ways to Check Data Privacy on MSN Money
There's no such thing as a free lunch or a free service that bundles subscriptions, as was recently reaffirmed by Unroll.Me's media covera...
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F17 Human-Centered Courses for CS Students
HUMAN-CENTERED TECHNOLOGY COURSES Designing Human-Centered Software 05-391 Instructor: Chris Harrison
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Meet MHCI Alumnus Dave Luetger
Dave Luetger is a 2013 graduate from the Master of Human-Computer Interaction (MHCI) at Carnegie Mellon University. While completing his u...
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HCII Collects Best Paper and Accessibility Challenge Awards at W4A
The Human-Computer Interaction Institute had a strong presence at the 14th International Web for All (W4A) conference in Perth, Australia,...
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HCII Hosts First Demo Day This Thursday
Have you ever used your skin to adjust the volume for your phone? Can you easily navigate your kitchen appliances without your vision? Whe...
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HCII Ph.D. Student Cole Gleason Receives 2017 NSF Fellowship
Human-Computer Interaction Institute Ph.D. student Cole Gleason will be receiving the 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) for his ...
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The MHCI Program Welcomes Lee Hillman and Skip Shelly to Leadership Team
The Human-Computer Interaction Institute is excited to announce additional leadership for the Master of Human-Computer Interaction program...
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Mankoff to present “Andy Talk” on Innovation Research at CMU’s Energy Week
Human-Computer Interaction Institute Professor Jen Mankoff will present a 20 minute "Andy Talk" on Wednesday at this year's Energy We...
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Ph.D. Students Bedri and Zhang Finalists in Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship
Two Ph.D. students from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute are finalists in the 2017 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship. They are one te...
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Health Tech Insider Features HCII Helping Hands
The Human-Computer Interaction Institute's research project, Helping Hands, made an appearance in a recent Health Tech Insiders article. ...
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Human-to-Heart Interactions: HCI for Cardiovascular Transplant Surgeons
Heart patients who have reached end-stage heart failure may have a pump surgically inserted to help blood flow to the rest of the body. Th...