News & Events
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Das, Laput Win 2014 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship
HCII PhD students Sauvik Das and Gierad Laput were one of nine teams to win the 2014 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QinF) ...
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Mankoff Co-Authors Chronic Lyme Disease Study
Chronic Lyme disease is associated with a poorer quality of life than most other chronic illnesses, according to a new comprehensive patie...
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CMU Plans Strong Showing at CHI2014
Watch out, Toronto — Carnegie Mellon is on its way. More than 50 CMU faculty members, graduate students and researchers are on the program...
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NYT Highlights Myers’ Role in Popularizing Progress Bars
A recent Innovation column in the New York Times’ “Magazine” section posed the question “Who made that progress bar?” Part of the answer i...
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HCII Research Cited in WEF’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies List
The World Economic Forum has released its 2014 list of the Top 10 Emerging Technologies, and it cites the HCII’s pioneering research in on...
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Harrison Profiled in Pittsburgh Magazine
The March 2014 issue of Pittsburgh Magazine featured a Q&A with HCII Assistant Professor Chris Harrison. In the article, Harrison disc...
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Bigham Named Sloan Research Fellow
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has named HCII Assistant Professor Jeffrey Bigham a a winner of a 2014 Sloan Research Fellowship.
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Cassell Assumes Associate Vice Provost Responsibilities
Justine Cassell, the Charles M.
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Klatzky Earns Charles J. Queenan Professorship of Psychology
Roberta Klatzky, professor of psychology with an appointment in the HCII, will receive the Charles J. Queenan Professorship of Psychology ...
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Das, Laput Advance to Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Finals
HCII Ph.D. students Sauvik Das and Gierad Laput advanced to the finals of the 2014 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QInF) for their proposa...
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Forlizzi Named to CHI Academy
Jodi Forlizzi, associate professor of human-computer interaction and design, has been named to the CHI Academy — an honorary group of indi...
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Apple's Mac Still Influences, 30 Years After Debut
The HCII's Brad Myers (bottom, right) and Jim Morris (top, right) were featured in a recent Associated Press article assessing the impact ...
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Carnegie Mellon Leads Multi-University Project To Improve Web and Cloud Computing Accessibility
The U.S. Department of Education is sponsoring a five-year, $3.7 million project led by Carnegie Mellon University to develop methods that...
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Carnegie Mellon, Temple Researchers Offer Fresh Perspective To Improve Learning by Taming Instructional Complexity
From using concrete or abstract materials to giving immediate or delayed feedback, there are rampant debates over the best teaching strate...
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Dow and André Received HCOMP Notable Paper Award
A paper by Steven Dow, assistant professor of HCII, and former HCII postdoc Paul André, “Community Clustering: Leveraging an Academic Crow...
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Carnegie Mellon-Disney Motion Tracking Technology Is Precise, Inexpensive, Fast
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research Pittsburgh have devised a motion tracking technology that could eliminate mu...
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HCII Alums Boost CMU Hackathon Performance
Three alumni of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute’s Masters Program — Min Zhao, Diana Chen and Asim Mittal — helped Carnegie Mellon...
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Hong Named PopTech Fellow
PopTech, a global social innovation incubator and thought leadership network, has named Jason Hong, associate professor in the Human-Compu...