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  • 3-D Printed Troll With Fabricated Hair

    HCII Researchers Fabricate Hair With Inexpensive 3-D Printer

    3-D printers typically produce hard plastic objects, but HCII researchers have found a way to produce hair-like strands, fibers and bristl...

  • Dow Receives Cyberlearning Grant

    Steven Dow, an assistant professor at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, will receive a $449K grant f...

  • Justine Cassell

    Cassell Explores Impact of Fourth Industrial Revolution at WEF Summit

    The Fourth Industrial Revolution is already upon us and Justine Cassell, associate vice provost for technology strategy and impact and HCI...

  • Ken Koedinger

    Slate Calls Out Koedinger's Contributions to Learning Technologies

    Artificially intelligent software is changing the face of the American classroom, and Slate's recent article "No More Pencils, No More Boo...

  • Geoff Kaufman

    Study Shows Game Design Can Reduce Stereotypes, Social Biases

    HCII Assistant Professor Geoff Kaufman, who joined the department this semester from Dartmouth's Tiltfactor Lab, is making headlines for a...

  • Louw Receives NSF Grant for Citizen Science

    Learning Media Design Center Director and HCII faculty member Marti Louw will receive a three-year, $1.7 million National Science Foundati...

  • Forlizzi to Deliver Keynote at DeSForM 2015

    Jodi Forlizzi, professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) and School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University, will be on...

  • Amy Ogan

    Ogan Helps State Department Improve English Education

    Helping people learn American English is an integral part of U.S. public diplomacy, and HCII Assistant Professor Amy Ogan is part of a new...

  • Jeff Rzeszotarski

    Rzeszotarski Named Siebel Scholar

    HCII Ph.D. student Jeff Rzeszotarski has been named a 2016 Siebel Scholar for his outstanding academic achievement and demonstrated leader...

  • HCI pioneers Guy Salama, Bob Kraut, Brad Myers and Jonathan Lazar

    Faculty Featured on "Encounters With HCI Pioneers"

    Three HCII faculty members are included in "Encounters With HCI Pioneers," a new website that aims to draw attention to human-computer int...

  • Stock image of knowledge transfer

    Study Shows Information Is Easier To Learn When Composed of Familiar Elements

    People have more difficulty recalling the string of letters BIC, IAJ, FKI, RSU and SAF than FBI, CIA, JFK, IRS and USA. The well-establish...

  • SOUPS logo

    HCII, Heinz Researchers Win SOUPS Privacy Award

    Chances are you use the Internet nearly every day. But what do you really know about how the Internet works? And how does that knowledge a...

  • Best Paper Logo

    HCII Team Earns Honorable Mention in Best Paper Competition

    A team of HCII researchers received an Honorable Mention award in the National Security Agency's (NSA) Third Annual Best Scientific Cybers...

  • Jason Hong

    Hong Takes on Cybersecurity in Slate

    While you might breathe a sigh of relief when you hear that classified data wasn't stolen in a data breach or cyberattack, that news isn't...

  • Jessica Hammer

    Hammer Earns Okawa Foundation Research Grant

    HCII Assistant Professor Jessica Hammer has received a 2015 Okawa Foundation Research Grant to support her research, "Games for Impact: A ...

  • Ken Koedinger

    Koedinger Talks LearnSphere in Hechinger Report, U.S. News & World Report

    "LearnSphere, a new $5 million federally funded project at Carnegie Mellon University, aims to become 'the biggest open repository of educ...

  • Adrian deFreitas using an Internet of Things app that automatically downloads transit apps when he is near a bus stop.

    IoT Research Makes Media Waves

    The HCII is leading the charge as Carnegie Mellon researchers work with colleagues at other universities to turn the CMU campus into a liv...

  • Jeffrey Bigham

    Bigham Urges Increased Accessibility Education for Developers

    Computing has become more accessible to people with disabilities in the past 25 years, but it still has a long way to go before it becomes...

  • LearnLab students

    LearnLab Summer School Provides Hands-On Learning Experience

    When Bill Buttlar, a professor and associate dean in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's (UIUC) College of Engineering, and h...

  • Anind Dey and Adrian deFreitas

    HCII Leads Charge in New Google-Funded Project

    Carnegie Mellon University is turning its campus into a living laboratory for a multi-university expedition to create a robust platform to...