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.
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Carnegie Mellon Announces Beta Release of Alice 3
Carnegie Mellon University today announced the beta release of Alice 3, the latest version of an innovative software environment designed ...
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Vincent Aleven and Nikol Rummel Receive One Million Dollar NSF Grant
HCII faculty members Vincent Aleven and Nikol Rummel received a new grant, from the NSF REESE program (Research and Evaluation on Educatio...
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HCII Graduate Student Martina Rau Wins Best Student Paper Award at the 2009 AIED Conference
First-year HCII graduate student Martina Rau wins the Best Student Paper Award at the 14th International Conference on Artificial Intellig...
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Teaching Fellowships in Africa Created to Honor Randy Pausch
Electronic Arts, in partnership with Teach With Africa, has initiated a fellowship program that honors Randy Pausch and addresses the dire...
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Multiple Media Outlets Cover Eric Paulos’s Research
The Economist, Public Radio International and WBUR’s Here & Now have all written about HCII faculty Eric Paulos’s research on how mobi...
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HCII Spinoff Carnegie Learning Announces International Partnership and Multiple Educational Technology Honors
Carnegie Learning Inc. has announced a three-year partnership with Carnegie Mellon University and universities in Mexico, Central America,...
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Carnegie Mellon Develops Java Programming Tools Employing Human-Centered Design Techniques
Researchers from the School of Computer Science have developed two new tools to help computer programmers select from among thousands of o...
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Wired, Popular Mechanics, Technology Review Cover Harrison and Hudson’s Physically Deformable Multitouch Displays
Numerous publications have written about HCII PhD student Chris Harrison and faculty Scott Hudson’s research on deformable multitouch disp...
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Carnegie Mellon/HCII, Pitt Receive $25 Million Federal Grant to Study How People Learn
The National Science Foundation has renewed a five-year $25 million grant to continue the work of the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Cente...
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CMU Had a Great Presence at CHI 2009
Authors from Carnegie Mellon and the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, in particular, had a great presence at CHI 2009, the premier co...
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Sara Kiesler Awarded ACM SIGCHI’s Lifetime Achievement Award
This year the Association of Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) presented its Lifetime...
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Ian Li Wins Smiley Award
PhD student Ian Li wins the 2009 SCS Smiley Award for innovation in technology-assisted person-to-person communication for his project Gra...
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Ron Salden and Vincent Aleven Win Best Paper Award at the Cognitive Science 2008 Conference
Ron Salden and Vincent Aleven of the HCI Institute, together with colleagues Alexander Renkl, and Rolf Schwonke from the University of Fre...
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Jodi Forlizzi, John Zimmerman, Anind Dey’s “Kind Technology” Featured in Spirit Magazine
In Southwest Airlines Spirit magazine special issue on technology, the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and CMU were featured as cente...
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Chris Harrison’s Work Awarded Honorable Mention in the NSF’s Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge 2008
Chris Harrison’s visualization work was selected as runner up (honorable mention) in the illustration category of the NSF/Science 2008 Sci...
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Masters of HCI Program One of the Top 10 Innovative Graduate Schools
The Masters of HCI program was featured in an article in ComputerWorld, as one of the top 10 innovative graduate schools for producing top...
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Dan Sieworek Speaks at 50-year Anniversary of University of Michigan Computer Science Department
HCII department head Daniel P. Sieworek, ECE faculty Rob A. Rutenbar, and former ECE faculty member John P. Shen were featured speakers a...
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Randy Pausch Recognized by SIGSE
Randy Pausch is recognized by SIGSE for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education. The award will be presented at the 39th S...
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Randy Pausch Wins Karlstrom Award
Randy Pausch is selected as the winner of the 2007 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award: “For his outstanding creative c...
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JJ Cadiz at Microsoft
Carnegie Mellon Alumnus, JJ Cadiz, is now Program Manager on Bill Gates’ technology assistance team at Microsoft.