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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Hudson And Colleagues Win First Place Best Demo Award at UIST
HCII Professor Scott Hudson, along with his Disney colleagues Karl D. D.
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Two Carnegie Mellon Teams Get Nod To Compete in DARPA Robotics Challenge
Roboticists at Carnegie Mellon University will field two teams in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Robotics Challenge...
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HCII Seminar Series with Speaker Alaina Hardie on Oct 24 Is Cancelled
The HCII Seminar Series that was to be held on Wed, October 24, with speaker Alaina Hardie has been cancelled for personal reasons. We wil...
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Sensors Embedded in Everyday Life Might Spot Dementia Early
Anind Dey, associate professor of HCII, presented his dwellSense project on Oct. 16 at the Wired Health Conference in New York City. ...
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Dey Speaks at Wired Health Conference
Anind Dey, associate professor in HCII, will speak about dwellSense, his project to develop in-home sensors that can detect the onset of d...
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Gadgets That Know Who You Are, Just By Touch
HCII PhD student Chris Harrison, working with colleagues at Disney Research, Pittsburgh, has helped develop a technique called capacitive ...
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HCII Paper of 2002 Named “Most Influential”
The IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing has recognized a 2002 paper on usable programming systems co-authored b...
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HCII Students Named Seibel Scholars
Two Ph.D. candidates in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute—Min Kyung Lee and Martina Rau—are among five Carnegie Mellon University g...
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Newsmaker: Justine Cassell
HCII Director Justine Cassell was the featured “Newsmaker” Sept. 8 in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. The column noted Cassell is the Charl...
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Cassell to Formally Receive Geschke Directorship
Justine Cassell will formally receive her appointment as the Charles M. Geschke Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII...
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Chris Harrison Named to TR35 List of Young Innovators
MIT’s Technology Review has named Chris Harrison to its annual TR35 list of innovators under the age of 35. He and the rest of the 2012 ho...
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Technology Review Names Chris Harrison to TR35 List of Top Innovators
Chris Harrison, a Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) who develops new ways fo...
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Koedinger to Deliver APA Keynote Address
Ken Koedinger, professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and director of the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center, will prese...
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HCII PhD Students Win Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship
The team of Robert Xiao and Chris Harrison, both PhD students in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, was one of eight U.S. groups se...
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NRC Report Says Computing Advances Vital to Sustainability Efforts
Innovation in computing will be essential to finding real-world solutions to sustainability challenges in such areas as electricity produc...
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Livehoods Wins Best Paper Award at ICWSM 2012
Work by Justin Cranshaw (ISR), Raz Schwartz (visiting scholar), Jason Hong (HCII), and Norman Sadeh (ISR) recently won the best paper awar...
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Revolutionary Technology Enables Objects to Know How They Are Being Touched
A doorknob that knows whether to lock or unlock based on how it is grasped, a smartphone that silences itself if the user holds a finger t...
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Touché Technology Detects How You Touch
Gizmag, along with Wired, TechCrunch and other media outlets, has a feature on Touché, a new touch-sensing technology developed at ...
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Picking the Brains of Strangers Improves Efforts to Make Sense of Online Information
People who have already sifted through online information to make sense of a subject can help strangers facing similar tasks without ever ...