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Because of its interdisciplinary nature, the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) often brings together students from departments a...

Many HCIIers headed to San Jose last week for the Association for Computing Machinery's Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI 2016...

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags are designed primarily for inventory control, but researchers at Disney Research and the HCII h...

Getting a bunch of people to collectively research and write a coherent report without any one person seeing the big picture may seem akin...

Everyone has that friend — the one who takes to Twitter or Facebook to ask their followers for advice on a new appliance, questions about ...

Everyone has some kind of routine. Whether it's how you get ready each morning or how you drive your car, routines are behavior blueprints...

Since the advent of smartwatches, technologists have been looking to expand interactions beyond the confines of the small watch face. A ne...

Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) Assistant Professor Amy Ogan firmly believes that the best way to improve educational technolo...

Nesra Yannier, a current Ph.D. candidate in the HCII, recently presented her thesis project to an auditorium full of entrepreneurs, facult...

The Human-Computer Interaction Institute had a strong showing at the inaugural Integrative Conference on Technology, Social Media and Beha...

If there's anywhere machine intelligence would seem to fit perfectly, it's healthcare. The rise of electronic medical records combined wit...

New improvements to smartwatches address significant shortcomings in the initial product. But these advancements — such as built-in n...

Carnegie Mellon University researchers have found a way to improve education for elementary and middle school students.

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) was a force to be reckoned with during the March 12, 2016 Microsoft Build the Shield (BTS) competition at...

HCII Faculty, Students to Present Papers and Works in Progress HCII faculty and students will travel to the University of Edinburgh next ...

A recent blog in the Huffington Post investigates the evolution of human-computer interaction as a field, and specifically calls out Carne...

The inaugural Red Bull "Hack the Hits" Hackathon, presented by the college music and ideas festival RECESS, brought together collegiate en...

For decades, Herbert A. Simon Professor of Human-Computer Interaction Robert Kraut has studied how people work together — first in actual ...

For ten uninterrupted hours on Saturday, April 9, teams of college students raced to solve challenging puzzles that tested their skills in...

Amy Ogan, an assistant professor in the HCII and an educational technologist, is fascinated by researching ways to make learning more enga...