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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Dey Weighs In on iPhone 6
Want to know if the iPhone 6 is worth it? HCII Director and Associate Professor Anind Dey recently told Pittsburgh’s CBS affiliate that it...
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New HCII Director Is Ready To Get Started
In the early 1970s in a small town near Vancouver, a young Anind Dey wrote his first computer program on a Timex Sinclair computer under t...
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HCII Team Rocks Pretty Good Race
The HCII trounced the competition in this year’s School of Computer Science Coach Tomayko Pretty Good Race, held Friday, Sept. 5. Now in i...
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Hammer, Harrison Among WEF Young Scientists
The HCII's Jessica Hammer and Chris Harrison were among 30 exceptional young scientists under the age of 40 recognized at the World Econom...
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Rosé, Cassell Discuss Google, CMU Collaboration on WESA-FM
HCII Associate Professor Carolyn Rosé and Professor Justine Cassell recently appeared on WESA-FM, Pittsburgh’s NPR affiliate, to discuss C...
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Myers Among Authors of “Most Influential” Paper
For the third year in a row, HCII Professor Brad Myers will be among the authors honored with the Most Influential Paper award from a deca...
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Google Sponsors Research To Improve Effectiveness of Online Education
HCII faculty will play a large role in a new Google-sponsored initiative to unlock the educational potential of massive open online course...
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Carnegie Mellon Creates Programming Library for Developing Interactive Web Pages in JavaScript
Human-Computer Interaction Institute researchers have collaborated with Adobe Research to create a new open-source JavaScript library that...
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Hong's Startup Profiled in Post-Gazette
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette recently profiled Wombat Security Technologies, a spin-off company founded by HCII Associate Professor Jason H...
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The Link Features METALS Program
The first class of HCII METALS students are two-thirds of the way through the program.
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Koedinger Profiled in SCS Magazine
Want to know more about what makes HCII Professor Ken Koedinger tick? What attracted him to Carnegie Mellon? What he does for fun? Check o...
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Carnegie Mellon Names Anind Dey Director of Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Randal E. Bryant, dean of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science, has appointed Anind K. Dey as the new Charles M. ...
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Myers Mentioned in New York Times
HCII Professor Brad Myers appeared in the New York Times Magazine section’s “Who Made that Autocorrect?” on Friday, June 6.
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CMU HCII Team Helps Feral Cats
A team of CMU HCII master’s students is working with local agencies to unite volunteers with the resources they need to rescue feral cats....
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HCII Researchers Develop New Approaches to Smartwatches
Carnegie Mellon University's Future Interfaces Group is exploring wearable technologies to make information and communication even more ac...
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Cassell Discusses Quantified Self in Scientific American
The HCII’s Justine Cassell discusses the Quantified Self (QS) and how electronic devices that measure and interpret our physical and menta...
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CMU@CHI: CMU-Disney Researcher Invents 3D Printing Technique for Making Soft, Cuddly Stuff
Soft and cuddly aren’t words used to describe the plastic or metal things typically produced by today’s 3D printers. But a new type of pri...
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Researchers Find Real-Time Information From Drug-Monitoring Systems Improves Regimen Adherence
Most people want to take medications as prescribed, even if they sometimes need a little help remembering. According to HCII researchers, ...
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CMU@CHI: Kinetica Converts Tabular Data Into Touch-Friendly Format
Spreadsheets may have been the original killer app for personal computers, but data tables don’t play to the strengths of multi-touch devi...
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CMU@CHI: HCII, Microsoft Research Explore Slow Technology
Storing and instantly accessing thousands of photos online has become a common luxury, but sometimes the sheer size of these photo archive...