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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HCII Ph.D. Students Win Best Paper Award at UbiComp
PhD students Sauvik Das and Eiji Hayashi, along with their advisor Jason Hong, won a best paper award at the 2013 ACM International Joint ...
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MHCI Alumni Develop the Trance App, The Social Dancefloor
MHCI alumni Julien Altieri, Harper LaFave, Marwa Muhammad and Youna Yang designed and created the Trance App as a way for “letting dancer...
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Most Internet Users Seek Anonymity Online
A new survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project and Carnegie Mellon University finds that most Internet users would like to be ...
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Myers Once Again Wins “Most Influential” Award
Brad A. Myers, professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, will be honored for the second year in a row as the author of a Most...
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Myers To Lead Multi-University NSF Grant
The National Science Foundation has awarded researchers Brad Myers (Carnegie Mellon University), Margaret M.
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Three HCII PhD Students Win Awards During International Conferences
HCII students Martina Rau, Samantha Finkelstein, and Yanjin Long are first authors on three award-winning papers during recent internation...
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PhD Student Will Odom’s Work on Digital Legacy Highlighted in ScienceNews
PhD student Will Odom’s work on digital legacy, and in particular digital legacy as it relates to bereavement in this technological age, i...
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HCII Researchers Develop Zooming Technique For Entering Text Into Smartwatches
Technology blogs have been abuzz that smartwatches may soon be on their way from companies such as Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft. B...
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Engaging Online Crowds in the Classroom Could Be Important Tool for Teaching Innovation
Online crowds can be an important tool for teaching the ins and outs of innovation, educators at Carnegie Mellon University and Northweste...
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Kinect plus projector makes anything a remote control
New Scientist featured WorldKit, a combination of depth cameras and projectors that enables computer interfaces to be created on almost an...
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With Wave of the Hand, HCII Researchers Create Touch-based Interfaces on Everyday Surfaces
Researchers previously have shown that a depth camera system, such as Kinect, can be combined with a projector to turn almost any surface ...
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“Self-Censorship on Facebook” Featured in The Atlantic, Mashable and Huffington Post
Sauvik Das’s internship work, “Self-Censorship on Facebook” has been gaining publicity.
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Analyzing Smartphone App Privacy
Many smartphone apps collect a great deal of personal information about individuals.
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Qeexo aims to make smartphone touchscreens even smarter
The Pittsburgh Business Times reported on Qeexo, a Carnegie Mellon spin-out co-founded by Human-Computer Interaction Institute graduate st...
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PayTango Featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus Blog
The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus blog recently featured PayTango, the fingerprint-payment system created by four Carnegie ...
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Lomas’ Playpower Scores in McGinnis Venture Competition
Playpower Labs, a company co-founded by Derek Lomas, a Ph.D. student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, was one of three compani...
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Carnegie Mellon Student Startup Places Payments at Users’ Fingertips
It may take two to tango, but payments now are as easy as one touch.Four Carnegie Mellon University seniors tired of digging through backp...
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CMU’s Innovation City Celebrates HCII Students at SXSW
Students of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute were among the Carnegie Mellon innovators and spin-off companies featured at Innovati...
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Close Facebook Friends Are Effective in Finding New Jobs
Many users regard Facebook as a place to waste time and socialize with people to whom they have tenuous connections. But a new study sugge...
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John Anderson Earns Highest APS Honor
Carnegie Mellon University’s John R. Anderson — whose human thought and cognition research has revolutionized how we learn — has been sele...