In the Media

Computing has become more accessible to people with disabilities in the past 25 years, but it still has a long way to go before it becomes something more than just an afterthought. In a re...

HCII Associate Professor Jennifer Mankoff recently appeared on Pittsburgh's NPR affiliate, 90.5 WESA-FM, to discuss EDigs, a new CMU resource that uses machine learning technologies to est...

A recent article in U.S.News &World Report explored whether video games can help solve public health problems. HCII Assistant Professor Jessica Hammer, whose research was among the pro...

Last summer, a team of HCII master's student teamed up with the Animal Rescue League to create a website that helps members of the community control feral cat populations in the Pittsburgh...

The Harvard Business Review's June cover story, "When Your Boss Wears Metal Pants," investigates the social constraints that have to be overcome before robots or other thinking machines ca...

The HCII introduced its master of human-computer interaction degree in 1994 — the first degree of its kind at any institution. Now, more than two decades later, MHCI programs exist all ove...

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Faculty members Chris Harrison and Amy Ogan may be known for their HCI research, but their home renovation skills are making local headlines. The couple recently took top honors in the Pit...

Work presented by HCII Director Anind Dey, Systems Scientist Seungjun Kim and Visiting Scholar Jaemin Chun at the Association for Computing Machinery’s Conference on Human Factors in Compu...

Associate Professor Jason Hong recently appeared in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article that discussed the often-surprising ways in which smartphone apps access personal information. The art...

National Geographic Channel's "Stephen Hawking's Science of the Future" recently featured the HCII's WorldKit project in the episode "Perfect City." WorldKit, a collaboration between Assis...

More than 70 percent of Internet users are on Facebook. And while the site applies the word "friend" to everyone in a user's network, the term really encompasses everything from distant re...