In the Media
Tap Sensor Takes Touch to the Next Level
NEWSTapSense, a technology developed by HCII PhD students Chris Harrison and Julia Schwarz and HCII Professor Scott Hudson, was the lead story Oct. 24 on Futurity.org, the news site coordinate...
CMU and Microsoft Researchers Turn Any Surface into a Touchscreen
NEWSTechCrunch was among the first of hundreds of news outlets to highlight the work of Chris Harrison, Scott Hudson and colleagues at Microsoft Research on a new wearable projection system th...
Apollo Group to Acquire Carnegie Learning
NEWSApollo Group, corporate parent of the University of Phoenix, has agreed to buy Carnegie Learning Inc., a spinoff of Carnegie Mellon University that markets Cognitive Tutor software, for $7...
Local News Covers Tiramisu Roll Out
NEWSHCII’s own John Zimmerman, along with Aaron Steinfeld and Anthony Tomasic and team, rolled out “Tiramisu” for the press yesterday. KDKA and WPXI ran spots on the local news, and today’s Po...
Working Out How Students Think and Learn
NEWSThe Australian newspaper featured Ken Koedinger, professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, in a story about Australia’s first meeting devoted to the science of learning....
Anderson’s Legacy Is Revolutionizing How We Learn
NEWSJohn R. Anderson, the R.K. Mellon University Professor of Psychology and Computer Science, received the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science April 28 at the Franklin I...
Teaching Gets Smarter
NEWSKen Koedinger came to Carnegie Mellon University in 1986 as a PhD student—exploring how software could be harnessed as a teaching tool. Twenty-five years later, more than 500,000 stu...
news.com.au Covers CrowdForge
NEWSnews.com.au warns journalists about potential quality of crowd sourced journalism. The article describes the CrowdForge developed by HCII’s Niki Kittur, Bob Kraut and Boris Smus....
Silicon Supervisor Gets the Job Done Online
NEWSNew Scientist says a new kind of crowdsourcing could change the way we work. CrowdForge, a structure for crowdsourcing creative work developed by Niki Kittur, Bob Kraut and Boris Smus, is ...
Where Are the Women in Wikipedia?
NEWSHCII Director Justine Cassell joins in the discussion over the relative lack of female contributors to Wikipedia, why the disparity exists and why it matters, in the New York Times’ “Room ...
Robert Kraut Quoted in USA Today
NEWSProfessor Robert Kraut was quoted in a USA Today article about the impact of pervasive communication technology on how people interact with each other:...
Cellphone Serves As Learning Platform for the Developing World
NEWSAn article in the Communications of the ACM describes work by HCII PhD student Anuj Kumar and others, which they presented in a CHI 2010 paper, “An Exploratory Study of Unsupervise...