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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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...
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SCS Remembers Adobe Founder and Ph.D. Alum Charles Geschke
A creator of software that revolutionized the way people collaborate, Charles M. Geschke left his mark on Carnegie Mellon Univers...
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Hackathons Give HCII Student Energy
During a long and challenging year, one Carnegie Mellon student has found something that gives her a challenging creative outlet, ...
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Yao Receives NSF CAREER Award
Five School of Computer Science faculty members recently earned National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CARE...
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A New Way to Learn Computer Science
A team of Carnegie Mellon University learning scientists are developing a tool that could change the way high school teachers and students...
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Hudson Wins SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award
Scott Hudson, a professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), is this year's winner of the Lifetime Achievement A...
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CMU Researchers Win NSF-Amazon Fairness in AI Awards
Three Carnegie Mellon University research teams have received funding through the Program on Fairness in Artificial Intelligence, which th...
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Hammer and Kalarchian Win Shape of Health Competition
A new game developed by Jessica Hammer and Melissa Kalarchian, two Pittsburgh-based researchers, won first prize in a national competition...
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HCII Team Named USDOT Inclusive Design Challenge Semifinalist
Researchers Will Develop Prototype Smartphone Interface for Accessible Self-Driving Cars