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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 ...
HCI students win Bose Challenge, Designing for Augmented Reality with Sound
NEWSMore than 100 Carnegie Mellon University students participated in an on-campus challenge last month, designing solutions for an emerging field so new that the technology, a pair of Bose au...
PhD students contribute to Fall ACM XRDS issue on The Computer Scientist
NEWSFour Ph.D. students from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute contributed to the Fall 2018 issue of XRDS (Crossroads), the ACM Magazine by students for students. XRDS is a quarterly pr...
Human-Computer Interaction Institute Seeks Applicants for Summer Research Program
NEWSInformation on the upcoming year is available on the 2020 Summer Research Program website. Application Deadline Is January 15, 2019 The Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) i...
Inviting Clients for 2019 HCI Capstone Projects
NEWSSponsors Needed for Student Projects The Human-Computer Interaction Institute is currently seeking client sponsors for spring semester 2019 projects. ...