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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Book Draws Lessons from Social Science to Guide Creation of Online Communities
Online communities are among the most popular destinations on the Internet, but attempts to create social networking sites often meet with...
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Using Foursquare Data to Redefine a Neighborhood
Technology Review took early notice of Livehoods, a project undertaken by Jason Hong, associate professor of HCII; Raz Schwartz, a visitin...
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CMU Researchers Use Foursquare Check-in Data to Create Dynamic View of Cities
The millions of “check-ins” generated by foursquare, the location-based social networking site, can be used to create a dynami...
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Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?
Moira Burke, a PhD alum of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and now a researcher at Facebook, is quoted regarding her research on ...
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Vibrating Steering Wheel Guides Drivers While Keeping Their Eyes on the Road
A vibrating steering wheel is an effective way to keep a driver’s eyes safely on the road by providing an additional means to convey...
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Computerworld Honors HCII’s MILLEE Project
The Human-Computer Interaction Institute’s Mobile and Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies, or MILLEE, project has ...
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Eric Paulos Receives First Cooper-Siegel Professorship
Faculty members in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science (SCS) and College of Fine Arts (CFA) are the first recipi...
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Cassell Posts on World Economic Forum Blog
In a World Economic Forum blog entry, HCII Director Justine Cassell says technological innovations won’t reach their potential for solving...
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Quarter of Tweets Not Worth Reading, HCII Researcher Reports
Twitter users choose the microblogs they follow, but that doesn’t mean they always like what they get. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon Univ...
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New iPad Programming Course Launched
Devices in hand, a group of students lucky enough to get into one of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute’s newest classes are already...
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Charles Geschke Endows HCII Directorship
Charles M. Geschke, co-founder of Adobe Systems Inc., and his wife, Nancy, have endowed the directorship of the Human-Computer Interaction...
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HCII Is Hiring Tenure-Track Faculty
The Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University seeks faculty candidates with a strong track record in research, ou...
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Forbes Names Harrison to “30 Under 30” List
HCII PhD student Chris Harrison was listed by Forbes magazine in its “30 Under 30” special report on tomorrow’s brightes...
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Redesign the HCII Website! $1,300 in Prizes
What: Challenge to redesign the HCII websiteDue: February 15, 2012Prizes: $1,000 first prize and $300 second prizeThe Human-Computer Inter...
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New HCII Social Space Dedicated As the Kiesler-Kraut Commons
On December 2, 2011 a group of appreciative students and colleagues gathered to dedicate the new HCII Social Space as the Kiesler-Kraut Co...
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Return of the Human Computers
The Economist traces the history of human computation back to 1937 and discusses how the technique is on the rise once again. It highlight...
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Death to Keyboards & Monitors
Chris Harrison, HCII PhD student, and the OmniTouch technology he developed with Microsoft Research and Scott Hudson, professor of HCII, w...
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Students Design Light Shows for Pausch Bridge
The 230-foot-long Randy Pausch Memorial Bridge is both a well-trod connection between the Gates Center for Computer Science and the Purnel...
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Tap Sensor Takes Touch to the Next Level
TapSense, a technology developed by HCII PhD students Chris Harrison and Julia Schwarz and HCII Professor Scott Hudson, was the lead story...