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  • 2019 CHI Logo - weaving the threads of CHI

    HCII Research at CHI 2019

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    Thousands 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...

  • six people from CMU MHCI stand with rep from UPMC Foundation for check presentation at UPMC Children's Hospital

    MHCI Students Raised Over $6,000 for Extra Life in 2018

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    A 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...

  • 4 photos of the winners arranged in a square, clockwise from top left: Kittur, Bigham, Myers and Koedinger

    Four Receive Google Faculty Research Awards in HCI

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    Four faculty members from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute have received 2018 Google Faculty Research Awards....

  • collage of 7 pictures of various display options from the posture-aware UI prototype

    Tablet Prototype Senses Context to Provide Posture-Aware UI

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    The research paper “Sensing Posture-Aware Pen+Touch Interaction on Tablets” received an Honorable Mention award at CHI 2019. ...

  • Collage of 3 photos from the SCS awards ceremony. Queenie and Geoff wearing gold crowns, Queenie and group on stage, Diana and Jessica with her award in Jessica's office afterward

    Two HCII Staff Win 2019 SCS Awards

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    The 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...

  • Ken Koedinger converses with others in the hallway during the LearnLab summer school poster session

    Two Research Projects To Close 'Opportunity Gap' for Students

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    A 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...

  • Lining Yao stands in the Morphing Matter Lab holding a white shapeshifting flower

    HCII Faculty Yao and Zimmerman to Speak at SXSW2019

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    Carnegie Mellon University students, faculty and alumni will be among the thousands descending onto Austin, Texas, for South by Southwest (SXSW) March 8-17, 2019....

  • Hong, Zhang, Kraut and Siewiorek stand side by side, smiling

    New Junior Professorships Honor Two Longtime HCII Faculty Members

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    Jason 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...

  • Tom and Lydia Moran stand behind professors Jessica Hammer and Amy Ogan (seated)

    Hammer, Ogan Accept Moran Professorships

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    Jessica 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

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    Sara 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...

  • side by side images: left image of a seated person hunched over a desk; right image a line drawing of the person with RFID sensor tags on spine

    RFID Tag Arrays Track Body Movements, Shape Changes

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    Carnegie 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 ...

  • a colorful lightbulb floats above a hand on a blue background

    Scaling Up Search for Analogies Could Be Key to Innovation

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    AI, 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 ...