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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Anderson To Attend White House Workshop
John R. Anderson, the Richard King Mellon University Professor of Psychology and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon, will participate in ...
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Schwarz Named to Forbes "30 Under 30"
HCII Ph.D. student Julia Schwarz has been named to Forbes' "30 Under 30 in 2015 Science" list, which recognizes the movers and shakers who...
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HCII Celebrates Tiniest New Member
The HCII and Entertainment Technology Center's students, faculty and staff gathered recently to mark the impending arrival of the departme...
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Hong Receives HCII Career Development Fellowship
HCII Associate Professor Jason Hong has been awarded the HCII Career Development Fellowship for his research accomplishments and contribut...
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Think Outside the Box? Not So Fast.
Traditional thinking holds that great design concepts stem from sources distant from the original problem. Velcro, for example, came into ...
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Ringly Makes Jewelry Smart
No one wants to be that person constantly looking at a smartphone to check for important text messages or updates. Or the one whose annoyi...
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Here's to Another 20 Years!
HCII Community Gathers to Celebrate Institute's 20th Anniversary The HCII threw open its doors and welcomed more than 275 of its nearest ...
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Harrison, Smart Watch Technology Featured in New York Times
Assistant Professor Chris Harrison was featured in the New York Times article, "In a Small Space, a Big Issue," which discussed current re...
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Privacy Research Makes Headlines
Associate Professor Jason Hong's research into the privacy of smartphone apps has been making news in outlets ranging from the Huffington ...
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Rosé Leads CMU Efforts in $1.6 Million Digital Learning Research Network
Associate Professor of LTI and HCII Carolyn Rosé will lead Carnegie Mellon's contributions to the new Digital Learning Research Network (d...
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Harrison Named Packard Fellow
HCII Assistant Professor Chris Harrison joined 17 of the nation's most innovative early career scientists and engineers as a recipient of ...
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HCII Marks 20th Anniversary With Weekend Celebration
More than 250 faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute will gather this weekend to celebra...
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Hong Leads Effort to Give Apps Privacy Grade
Smartphones wouldn't be so smart without their apps, yet many free apps pinpoint a user's location to deliver targeted ads or share contac...
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MHCI Students Top HackNC
One MHCI team won first place and another received an award at HackNC2014, a software and hardware hackathon at the University of North Ca...
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Future Interfaces Group Featured in Wired
Smartwatches are growing in popularity, but they’re just small enough to make navigating the interface annoying.
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MHCI Team Takes Honors in CMU iOS App Challenge
Everyone’s been in that situation: You go out for a meal with friends or co-workers and chaos arrives with the check. Someone pays too lit...
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Kittur, Rzeszotarski Win First Prize at 3 Rivers Venture Fair
Assistant Professor Aniket Kittur and Ph.D.
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Decimal Game Helps Kids Get the Point
Kids may not always want to do their math homework, but they can’t seem to put down video games like Minecraft or Angry Birds.
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Koedinger To Lead NSF-Funded LearnSphere Project
HCII Professor Ken Koedinger will lead a five-year, $5 million early implementation project sponsored by the National Science Foundation t...
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Tiramisu on WTAE-TV
The HCII’s Tiramisu project made headlines as part of the Port Authority of Allegheny County’s announcement that 25 percent of its bus rou...