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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METALS Capstone Sponsor, MARi, finalist in Reach Higher Learning Career App Challenge
It's not everyday that a Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) capstone project brings you to the White House to present your work, ...
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CMU Researchers Advance Ed-Tech Pilots in Pittsburgh Schools
Technology use continues to rise in schools as an important means for teachers to create a more personalized learning experience for stude...
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Alumni Spotlight: Mark Potter, METALS '14
Mark Potter is a 2014 graduate from the Masters of Educational Technologies and Applied Learning Science (METALS) at Carnegie Mellon Unive...
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Operating Your Smart Watch with the Hand That Wears It
Despite the increasing number of smart watches entering the market, these wearable devices are all facing similar challenges for users; sm...
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Decimal Point: Can Having Fun Increase Learning?
When it comes to learning math, how much fun you are having is rarely factored into the equation. That isn't to say that game designers ha...
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HCII Takes Home Best Paper Award at UMAP 2016
Can past learning activities predict differences in individual student success? A recent project with researchers from the Human-Computer ...
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What's the Difference Between Paper and Digital? The Bigger Picture
If you are reading an article just to get the facts, are you better off reading it online or printing the article? Or does it really matte...
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Meet Major Adrian de Freitas, HCII Ph.D. Student
The day of a Ph.D. student's dissertation is typically full of preparation, a few nerves and lots of practice presentations. It is not as ...
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Cassell and the Advent of Virtual Humans
Meet Sara, the "socially aware robot assistant" that previous Human-Computer Interaction Institute Director, Justine Cassell, brought to t...
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Ogan on Sensors in the Classroom
Carnegie Mellon University, like other colleges and universities, is able to create smaller learning cohorts from large lectures by using ...
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Alumni Spotlight: Chris Connors, MHCI '97
Chris Connor is a 1997 alumnus of the Masters of Human-Computer Interaction; one of the first graduating classes of students in the progra...
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Harrison Comments on Future for Wearables
Product Design & Development recently turned to Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) Assistant Professor Chris Harrison to answ...
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Harrison Explains Info Bulb to TechRepublic
After 130 years of diligently lighting up our homes, light bulbs may be ready for a serious upgrade. Human-Computer Interaction Institute ...
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Hong Discusses Cybersecurity and the Future of IoT
The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to be a priority research area for faculty in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII.) In p...
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SkinTrack Turns Your Arm into a Trackpad
The Future Interfaces Group (FIG), a lab directed by Human-Computer Interaction Institute Assistant Professor Chris Harrison, was recently...
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The HCII Leads Discussion for Future Design Research Organization
Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) faculty John Zimmerman joined scholars and professionals from across the United States and Can...
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Hong Speaks on Safe and Secure Internet of Things
Associate professor Jason Hong believes that we are currently living in the early stages of the third wave of computing. The first wave wa...
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Meet Andrew McHugh, Co-author of "The Book of What If…?"
"What if everything could communicate?" This is just one of the questions posited by Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) master's ...
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Alumni Spotlight: Bridget Veerhoff, MHCI '07
Bridget Veerhoff is a 2007 graduate from the Accelerated Masters of Human-Computer Interaction (MHCI) at Carnegie Mellon University, but t...
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Kim Explores the Next Frontier in AI Game Agents
When Google DeepMind's AlphaGo bot defeated the world's top Go player earlier this year, many wondered what the next challenge would be. A...