News & Events
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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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Essential EDigs
HCII Associate Professor Jennifer Mankoff recently appeared on Pittsburgh's NPR affiliate, 90.5 WESA-FM, to discuss EDigs, a new CMU resou...
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Baloonr Helps Teams Get Ideas Off the Ground
Ask a roomful of kindergarteners if they're artists, and all of them will unanimously boom "YES!" Ask adults, though, and the story change...
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HCII To Welcome New Faculty in August
The HCII will add three assistant professors to its world-class faculty in August, when Geoff Kaufman and Chinmay Kulkarni will join the c...
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MHCI Students Work on Solutions for First Responders
A team of students in the Masters in Human-Computer Interaction program will spend the summer immersed in the world of firefighters, polic...
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Hammer Featured in "Gaming the System"
A recent article in U.S.News &World Report explored whether video games can help solve public health problems.
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Nala in the News
Last summer, a team of HCII master's student teamed up with the Animal Rescue League to create a website that helps members of the communi...
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HCII Students Envision Next Big Startup Ideas
Want to go to an awesome concert tonight but don't want to go alone? Or maybe you aspire to making your own gourmet meal but find cookbook...
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Snackbot Featured in the Harvard Business Review
The Harvard Business Review's June cover story, "When Your Boss Wears Metal Pants," investigates the social constraints that have to be ov...
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Shopping for Grad Programs? Try HCI.
The HCII introduced its master of human-computer interaction degree in 1994 — the first degree of its kind at any institution. Now, more t...
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EDigs Helps Apartment Hunters Find the Perfect Rental
A new online resource from Carnegie Mellon University researchers seeks to help people find the perfect rental property by using tools suc...
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CHI Research Makes Waves in the Media
HCII research presented last month at the Association for Computing Machinery’s Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (...
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CHI2015: Pierce and Colleagues Offer Critical Take on "Critical Design"
To the casual reader, the fact that the term "critical design" is slipping into the HCI vernacular might not seem like a big deal. But HCI...
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CHI2015: Learning in the Real World Tops Learning From a Tablet
You see it in headlines with more and more frequency: "Local School Provides Tablets for All Students." But though screen technologies are...
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MHCI Team Takes Second Place in CHI Student Design Competition
A team of students in the Masters of Human Computer Interaction program took second place last week in the 13th annual CHI Student Design ...
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Ogan, Harrison Win Post-Gazette 2014-15 Renovation Inspiration Contest
Faculty members Chris Harrison and Amy Ogan may be known for their HCI research, but their home renovation skills are making local headlin...
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CHI2015: Social Microvolunteering Uses Facebook to Do Good
Photos of food. Check-ins at the gym. Political rants and memes prominently featuring cats. They fill up newsfeeds on social media, to the...
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CHI2015: Apparition Harnesses the Crowd To Create Real-Time Prototyping
When designing anything — a new video game or the next-big-thing smartphone app — prototyping is key. It allows designers to quickly itera...
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CHI2015: Driven From Distraction in The Economist
Work presented by HCII Director Anind Dey, Systems Scientist Seungjun Kim and Visiting Scholar Jaemin Chun at the Association for Computin...
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CHI Preview: Carnegie Mellon, Disney Researchers Develop Acoustically Driven Controls for Handheld Devices
As people find ever more inventive uses for smartphones, touchscreens sometimes fall short as control surfaces.
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CHI Preview: HCII Researchers Unveil 3D Fabric Printing Technique
Mention 3D printing, and most people will conjure up images of rough plastic items with hard surfaces and sharp angles. Warm and fuzzy doe...