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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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...
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Koedinger Accepts Hillman Professorship of Computer Science
Ken Koedinger, professor in the
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Gaming for good, first-time HCII team raises over $5,000 for the kids
Team “Carnage Melon” had lofty goals for its first time participating in the Extra Life charity gaming marathon, but it unlocked the $5,00...
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MHCI Alumnae Lead Panel Discussion at Grace Hopper Celebration
Four Master of Human-Computer Interaction alumnae were selected to lead an HCI panel discussion at the 2017 Grace Hopper Celebration of Wo...
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Harrison receives Habermann Chair in SCS
Chris Harrison, assistant professor at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, has been named the A. Nico Habermann Chair in the School ...
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Carnegie Mellon Names Jodi Forlizzi HCII Director
Andrew Moore, dean of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science, has appointed Jodi Forlizzi as the new Charles M.
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Gaming for good, HCII team prepares for 24-hour gaming marathon
From 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, November 4, until 9:00 a.m. on Sunday, November 5, someone from Carnage Melon will be awake and playing a game...
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Inviting clients for 2018 HCI capstone projects
Sponsors Needed for HCI Student Capstone Projects The Human-Computer Interaction Institute is currently seeking client sponsors for sprin...
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HCII Professor Earns Most Influential Paper Award for Fourth Time in Six Years
A 2006 paper co-authored by Jeff Stylos, then-Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D. student, and Brad Myers, professor in the Human-Computer In...
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HCII PhD Student Robert Xiao Talks PPP 4th "World Series of Hacking" Win.
"The win represents the strength of the team and CMU's dominance in cyber security."
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HCII Ph.D. Students Receive CMLH Fellowship in Digital Health
Four Human-Computer Interaction Institute Ph.D. students are recipients of the Center for Machine Learning and Health (CMLH) Fellowship in...
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HCII Faculty Writers of Crash Course in Computer Science
The first known use of the word, computer, was actually in reference to a job title, not a piece of technology. In spite of the past trend...
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ChromeView: A Plugin Designed to Fight Selective Exposure
"Algorithm models and machine learning systems. Whether we realize it or not, our daily lives center around them," explained a team of Car...
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HCII Students Bedri and Zhang Win Qualcomm Fellowship
Human-Computer Interaction Institute Ph.D students Abdelkareem Bedri and Yang Zhang are the recipients of this year's Qualcomm Fellowship....