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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Innovation by Design 2021 Awards Recognize HCII Projects
Three HCII projects were recognized with four of Fast Company’s Innovation by Design 2021 Awards.
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Put Children In The Driving Seat Of Their Own Learning For Better Results
Children learn better when they are more active in lessons and have more control over their learning, says a new study.
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New Research Shows Learning Is More Effective When Active
Engaging students through interactive activities, discussions, feedback and AI-enhanced technologies resulted in improved academic p...
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Jessica Hammer To Receive Carnegie Science Center Award for Work in STEM Education
The Carnegie Science Center will honor Jessica Hammer for using games to tackle challenging problems and promote STEM education. ...
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Five SCS Students Named Siebel Scholars
Five graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science have received Siebel Scholars awards for 2022. K...
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HCII Seeks Capstone Project Sponsors for 2022
Apply our future HCI leaders to your organization's challenges in 2022 The Human-Computer Interaction Institute invites companies...
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Designer Studies Cutting Edge of Fashion Via Luminous Material
Carnegie Mellon University senior Ashley Burbano had glowing results in her summer research into understanding the applications of...
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Want to eat more sustainably? Try flat-pack pasta
Flat packed noodles that form iconic pasta shapes when cooked could lead to more sustainable packaging, transportation, and storage. ...
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Pittsburgh researchers can’t stop tech giants or hackers from using your data. But they can try to protect your identity
Questions about the future of the multi-billion smart technology industry that tracks what we are doing are more than theoretical in Pitts...
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School of Computer Science Part of Four New NSF AI Institutes
CMU Contributing to Innovations in Caregiving, Agriculture, Wireless Networks Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science wil...
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NoRILLA: AI Gorilla Brings STEM to Life at the Children's Museum of Atlanta
There’s something new rumbling and tumbling at CMA! If you’ve visited the museum lately you’ve seen children building towers and other str...
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CMU, Apple Team Improves iOS App Accessibility
SCS Researchers Part of Best Paper Effort at CHI 2021
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Jessica Hammer Named HCII Interim Associate Director
Award-winning game designer Jessica Hammer will soon level up when she takes on the role of interim associate director of the Human-Compu...
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Forlizzi Named Dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for School of Computer Science
Jodi Forlizzi will lean on her background as a designer to address what she calls "a truly wicked problem" in her role as the inaugural a...
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Alumni spotlight with Connie Chau
We recently caught up with Connie Chau, class of 2020, to talk about her time at Carnegie Mellon. Our conversation is below, forma...
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Overcoming Tab Overload
If you are reading this, chances are you have several other tabs open in your browser that you mean to get to eventually.
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CMU at Virtual CHI 2021
More than one hundred researchers from Carnegie Mellon will log on to virtually attend the international ACM Conference on Human F...
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CMU Lab Leads Development of Pasta That Morphs Into Shape When Cooked
Flat-Packed Noodles Create More Sustainable Packaging, Transportation and Storage People love pasta for its shapes — from tubes of penne...