News & Events
You're in the right place to keep up with department news and upcoming events at the HCI Institute.
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.
-
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...
-
Tiramisu Cited by Intelligent Transportation Society of America
Tiramisu Transit, an iPhone app developed by Carnegie Mellon that uses crowdsourcing to help transit riders know when their bus will arriv...
-
SideBySide Projection System Enables Projected Interaction Between Mobile Devices
Researchers at Disney Research Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University have devised a system called SideBySide that enables animated ima...
-
Carnegie Mellon Develops Touchscreen Technology That Distinguishes Taps by Different Parts of Finger
Smartphone and tablet computer owners have become adept at using finger taps, flicks and drags to control their touchscreens. But Carnegie...
-
CMU and Microsoft Researchers Turn Any Surface into a Touchscreen
TechCrunch was among the first of hundreds of news outlets to highlight the work of Chris Harrison, Scott Hudson and colleagues at Microso...
-
Wearable Depth-Sensing Projection System Makes Any Surface Capable of Multitouch Interaction
OmniTouch, a wearable projection system developed by researchers at Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon University, enables users to tu...
-
Raju Named 2012 Siebel Scholar
The Siebel Scholars Foundation has announced that Preethi Raju, a master’s student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, and ...
-
Cassell Will Speak at “Summer Davos”
Justine Cassell, director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, will be among four Carnegie Mellon University faculty members who w...
-
Apollo Group to Acquire Carnegie Learning
Apollo Group, corporate parent of the University of Phoenix, has agreed to buy Carnegie Learning Inc., a spinoff of Carnegie Mellon Univer...
-
PhD Student Jason Wiese Wins a Yahoo! 2011 Key Scientific Challenges Program Award
Big congratulations to PhD student Jason Wiese, who has just won a Yahoo! 2011 Key Scientific Challenges Program Award. Jason won for his ...
-
Carnegie Mellon Develops iPhone App That Predicts When Bus Will Arrive
Everybody who waits at a bus stop wants to know one thing: Where’s the bus? Thanks to Tiramisu, a new iPhone application developed at Carn...
-
Local News Covers Tiramisu Roll Out
HCII’s own John Zimmerman, along with Aaron Steinfeld and Anthony Tomasic and team, rolled out “Tiramisu” for the press yesterday.
-
Working Out How Students Think and Learn
The Australian newspaper featured Ken Koedinger, professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, in a story about Australia’s first...
-
Symposium Explores How Computer Programs Can Be Made Easier to Write and Understand
Computers may be a common part of modern life and work, but the languages and methods used to program those computers continue to confound...
-
Anderson’s Legacy Is Revolutionizing How We Learn
John R. Anderson, the R.K. Mellon University Professor of Psychology and Computer Science, received the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Compute...
-
Virtual Possessions Have Powerful Hold on Teenagers
Digital imagery, Facebook updates, online music collections, email threads and other immaterial artifacts of today’s online world ma...
-
Cassell Featured in Technology Town Hall Meeting
Justine Cassell, director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, will join experts from the news media and industry to discuss how t...
-
Myers Receives Microsoft Research SEIF Award
Brad A. Myers, professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, is one of 10 recipients chosen by Microsoft Research for its 2011 So...
-
HCII’s Lomas Wins National Prize for “Numbaland!” Game
“Numbaland!,” a collection of math games developed by Human-Computer Interaction Institute PhD student Derek Lomas and two colleagues, won...
-
Teaching Gets Smarter
Ken Koedinger came to Carnegie Mellon University in 1986 as a PhD student—exploring how software could be harnessed as a teaching to...