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HCII Research at CHI 2019
NEWSThousands of the world’s top researchers, scientists, and designers are traveling to the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (also known as CHI) this weekend. The prem...
MHCI Students Raised Over $6,000 for Extra Life in 2018
NEWSA group of masters students recently traveled to Lawrenceville to present a large check to the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation, a symbol of their successful fundraising effort...
Four Receive Google Faculty Research Awards in HCI
NEWSFour faculty members from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute have received 2018 Google Faculty Research Awards....
Tablet Prototype Senses Context to Provide Posture-Aware UI
NEWSThe research paper “Sensing Posture-Aware Pen+Touch Interaction on Tablets” received an Honorable Mention award at CHI 2019. ...
Two HCII Staff Win 2019 SCS Awards
NEWSThe eighth annual School of Computer Science Founders Day celebration took place on Tuesday, April 2, 2019, at 4:00 p.m. The event was hosted by Tom Mitchell, interim dean of the School of...
Two Research Projects To Close 'Opportunity Gap' for Students
NEWSA pair of separate, but complementary, research projects led by Carnegie Mellon University will use cutting-edge research in motivation, thinking, culturally affirming teaching and human-c...
HCII Faculty Yao and Zimmerman to Speak at SXSW2019
NEWSCarnegie Mellon University students, faculty and alumni will be among the thousands descending onto Austin, Texas, for South by Southwest (SXSW) March 8-17, 2019....
New Junior Professorships Honor Two Longtime HCII Faculty Members
NEWSJason Hong and His Wife, Shelley Zhang, Endow Two Junior Professorships The sale of Wombat Security Technologies to Proofpoint Inc. for $225 million last year presented an opportunity f...
Hammer, Ogan Accept Moran Professorships
NEWSJessica Hammer and Amy Ogan, faculty members in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), received the inaugural Thomas and Lydia Moran Career Development Professorships in Learnin...
Kiesler Elected to National Academy of Engineering
NEWSSara Kiesler, Hillman Chair Emerita of Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering...
RFID Tag Arrays Track Body Movements, Shape Changes
NEWSCarnegie Mellon University researchers have found ways to track body movements and detect shape changes using arrays of radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags. RFID-embedded clothing ...
Scaling Up Search for Analogies Could Be Key to Innovation
NEWSAI, Crowdsourcing Can Identify Insights That Lead to Breakthroughs Investment in research is at an all-time high, yet the rate of scientific breakthroughs isn't setting any records. To ...