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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news.com.au Covers CrowdForge
news.com.au warns journalists about potential quality of crowd sourced journalism. The article describes the CrowdForge developed by HCII’...
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Where Are the Women in Wikipedia?
HCII Director Justine Cassell joins in the discussion over the relative lack of female contributors to Wikipedia, why the disparity exists...
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Silicon Supervisor Gets the Job Done Online
New Scientist says a new kind of crowdsourcing could change the way we work. CrowdForge, a structure for crowdsourcing creative work devel...
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Crowd Workers Are Not Online Shakespeares, But HCII Researchers Show They Can Write
Writing can be a solitary, intellectual pursuit, but researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have shown that the task of writing an info...
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Justine Cassell Joins Panel to Discuss Brain and Behavior
Justine Cassell, director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, will be part of a campus panel discussion on how interdisciplinary ...
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Derek Lomas - NumberPower: Challenge Grand Prize Winner
Derek Lomas, a PhD student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, won the $50,000 grand prize in the $100K Challenge, a competition ...
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Robert Kraut Quoted in USA Today
Professor Robert Kraut was quoted in a USA Today article about the impact of pervasive communication technology on how people interact wit...
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CMU to Host Automotive User Interfaces Conference
Anind K. Dey, Associate Professor in the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Institute, and CMU welcome the 2nd International Automotive User...
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Culturally Inspired Mobile Phone Games Help Chinese Children Learn Language Characters
Mobile phone-based games could provide a new way to teach basic knowledge of Chinese language characters that might be particularly helpfu...
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NSF Project Will Develop Architecture That Makes Internet Secure, Smart
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University will lead a three-year, $7.1 million effort sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) t...
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Carnegie Mellon Joins NSF Research Consortium to Develop Tools for Analyzing Autism, Other Behaviors
Researchers in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University will join a five-year, $10 million initiative funded by the Na...
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Moira Burke and Bob Kraut Receive Journal of Small Group Research Best Paper Award
Congratulations to Moira Burke and Bob Kraut who received an award for the best article to be published in the Journal of Small Group Rese...
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Cellphone Serves As Learning Platform for the Developing World
An article in the Communications of the ACM describes work by HCII PhD student Anuj Kumar and others, which they presented in a CHI 2010 ...
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PhD Student’s Twitter Moniker, @BP, Causes Confusion
Bryan Pendleton, a PhD student in HCII, is known on Twitter as @BP. But since the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, some Twitter users have...
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Carnegie Mellon Hosting Conferences on Computer Tutors, Educational Data Mining
The expanding role of computers in education and in educational research will be addressed by two back-to-back research conferences hosted...
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Newsmaker: Moira Burke
Moira Burke, HCII PhD student, was the featured “Newsmaker” in the Sunday, May 9 edition of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Moi...
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Small Mobile Devices Can Serve As Own Computer Mice with Minput Sensing Method
The same inexpensive, but high-quality optical sensors employed in the common computer mouse can enable small mobile phones and digital mu...
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Chris Harrison Uses Skin As Input for Mobile Devices
A combination of simple bio-acoustic sensors and some sophisticated machine learning makes it possible for people to use their fingers or ...
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Justine Cassell Named HCII Director
Randal E. Bryant, dean of Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, has announced the appointment of Justine Cassell as the...
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A Little Black Box to Jog Failing Memory
The New York Times reports on work by Anind Dey and Matthew Lee, using Microsoft Research’s SenseCam, to collect images and other digital ...