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  • 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 ...

  • the four team members sit around a square table in the HCII lobby

    HCI students win Bose Challenge, Designing for Augmented Reality with Sound

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    More 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...

  • three PhD students hold paper copies of the Computer Scientist issue of the XRDS magazine, standing in the HCII lobby

    PhD students contribute to Fall ACM XRDS issue on The Computer Scientist

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    Four 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...

  • 2018 Summer Research Program Group Photo

    Human-Computer Interaction Institute Seeks Applicants for Summer Research Program

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    Information 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...

  • four MHCI students facing left side of photo, working on large affinity diagram on the wall

    Inviting Clients for 2019 HCI Capstone Projects

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    Sponsors Needed for Student Projects The Human-Computer Interaction Institute is currently seeking client sponsors for spring semester 2019 projects. ...