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

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

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...

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

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

HCII Associate Professor Jennifer Mankoff recently appeared on Pittsburgh's NPR affiliate, 90.5 WESA-FM, to discuss EDigs, a new CMU resou...

Ask a roomful of kindergarteners if they're artists, and all of them will unanimously boom "YES!" Ask adults, though, and the story change...

The HCII will add three assistant professors to its world-class faculty in August, when Geoff Kaufman and Chinmay Kulkarni will join the c...

A team of students in the Masters in Human-Computer Interaction program will spend the summer immersed in the world of firefighters, polic...

A recent article in U.S.News &World Report explored whether video games can help solve public health problems.

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...

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...

The Harvard Business Review's June cover story, "When Your Boss Wears Metal Pants," investigates the social constraints that have to be ov...

The HCII introduced its master of human-computer interaction degree in 1994 — the first degree of its kind at any institution. Now, more t...

A new online resource from Carnegie Mellon University researchers seeks to help people find the perfect rental property by using tools suc...

  HCII research presented last month at the Association for Computing Machinery’s Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (...

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...

You see it in headlines with more and more frequency: "Local School Provides Tablets for All Students." But though screen technologies are...

A team of students in the Masters of Human Computer Interaction program took second place last week in the 13th annual CHI Student Design ...

Faculty members Chris Harrison and Amy Ogan may be known for their HCI research, but their home renovation skills are making local headlin...