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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HCII & ETC Student Game Brings Home Best Student Game and People's Choice Award
Alexandra To of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) and Elaine Fath of the Entertainment Technology Institute (ETC) brought ho...
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100% Career Placement Every Year for METALS Graduates
The Master of Educational Technology and Applied Learning Science degree is proud to announce that its most recent graduating cohort succe...
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Rello Recieves 2016 New Researcher IDA Award
HCII postdoctoral fellow Luz Rello received the 2016 New Researcher Award during the International Dyslexia Association (IDA) Conference, ...
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Hong on Privacy Concerns after DDoS Attack
HCII Associate Professor Jason Hong, a researcher on privacy and security, calls the recent DDoS attacks a very serious concern.
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HCII at UIST 2016
The Human-Computer Interaction Institute had a strong showing at this year's ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST...
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VizLens –An Interactive Smartphone App for the Blind
Think about the number of electronic appliances you encounter on a daily basis – using a microwave, adjusting the thermostat in your home,...
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ViBand Wins Best Paper at UIST 2016
Human-Computer Interaction Institute Ph.D. students Robert Xiao and Gierad Laput along with Assistant Professor Chris Harrison won a Best ...
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Alumni Spotlight: Sandhya Pillalamarri, MHCI '05
Bringing together computer science, behavioral sciences and design is a signature combination of the Master of Human-Computer Interaction ...
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Rosé Gets MOOCs More Social
Why do so many students drop out of MOOCs before completing the class? This is a question that has interested Carolyn Rosé, associate prof...
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McLaren on Robots: Lifesavers or Terminators?
A recent CNN news article questioned the future of autonomous machines: are they out of control demons or lifesaving robots? While self-dr...
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HCII Ph.D. Jennifer Olsen Recognized as Siebel Scholar
Jennifer Olsen, a fifth year Ph.D. student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), will be joining five other Carnegie Mellon ...
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Twitch Plays Game Design: Audience Participation in Games
To anyone who has played a family board game or turned on a video game with a group of friends in the basement, the idea of watching games...
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Guo Receives Honorable Mention at MobileHCI 2016
Anhong Guo, a Ph.D. student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), received an Honorable Mention at the 2016 MobileHCI confer...
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EM-Sense Wins Fast Company Innovation by Design Award
EM-Sense, a technology developed by Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research for automatically identifying an electrical or electrom...
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Friends Help Friends Feel Better on Facebook
Personal interactions on Facebook can have a major impact on a person's feelings of well-being and satisfaction with life just as much as ...
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Faculty Spotlight: Assistant Professor Chinmay Kulkarni
Meet Chinmay Kulkarni, who joined the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) faculty last year. Kulkarni shares his background, resea...
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In the Loop: Jessica Hammer
Jessica Hammer is an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, with a joint appointment between the Human-Computer Interaction In...
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Human-Computer Interaction Institute T-Shirt Competition
In the last week of August, the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) at Carnegie Mellon University welcomes the newest students int...
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Kraut Receives NSF Grant in Support of Online Communities
Despite the existence of successful online groups, the majority of newly created ones fail. They don’t survive, fail to attract enough dig...