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Qeexo aims to make smartphone touchscreens even smarter
NEWSThe Pittsburgh Business Times reported on Qeexo, a Carnegie Mellon spin-out co-founded by Human-Computer Interaction Institute graduate students Julia Schwarz and Chris Harrison, along wit...
PayTango Featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus Blog
NEWSThe Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus blog recently featured PayTango, the fingerprint-payment system created by four Carnegie Mellon students, including three human-computer in...
Close Facebook Friends Are Effective in Finding New Jobs
NEWSMany users regard Facebook as a place to waste time and socialize with people to whom they have tenuous connections. But a new study suggests that spending time on the social network inter...
NewScientist Interviews Kittur About Crowdsourcing
NEWSWriting in NewScientist, Hal Hodson suggests that crowdsourcing’s Wild West days of exploitation may soon be over. He reports on efforts to make crowd work vendors more accountable and to ...
How She Got There: Julia Schwarz
NEWSHercampus.com has published a Q&A with Julia Schwarz, a Ph.D. student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, exploring how she became an app developer....
Cassell Featured in World Economic Forum Video
NEWSJustine Cassell, director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, is among the faculty members representing Carnegie Mellon at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos-Klosters, Swit...
Harrison Is An “Innovator to Watch” in 2013
NEWSSmithsonian magazine has named Chris Harrison, a Ph.D. student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, as one of “Six Innovators to Watch in 2013.”...
CBS Interviews Hong About Smartphone Snoops
NEWSJason Hong, associate professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, was featured on CBS This Morning in a Dec. 26 segment about the information that smartphone apps collect about ...
Business Insider Ranks HCII 9th Among Design Schools
NEWSBusinessInsider.com ranks Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute 9th on its list of the world’s best design schools. CMU’s School of Design is ...
Alum Featured on Bravo’s “Start-Ups: Silicon Valley”
NEWSWhen David Murray was an undergrad at Carnegie Mellon, his friends used to kid him that he’d never find a job that combined all three of his majors—computer science and human-computer inte...
Sensors Embedded in Everyday Life Might Spot Dementia Early
NEWSAnind Dey, associate professor of HCII, presented his dwellSense project on Oct. 16 at the Wired Health Conference in New York City. The Wired Science blog reports on the project’s a...
Disney Research Develops 3D Printed Optics
NEWSHCII Professor Scott Hudson and Karl D.D. Willis, a PhD student in CMU’s Computational Design Lab who is co-advised by Hudson, have worked with Disney Research, Pittsburgh, to adapt 3D pri...