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  • PhD students Madaio and Holstein with their awards at London Festival of Learning

    HCII PhD Students Return from London Festival of Learning with 3 Awards

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    Many experts from the learning sciences and educational technologies communities gathered at the University College London (UCL) Institute of Education in London last week for not one but ...

  • panel and attendees at the alumni networking event

    HCII Hosts Event for Bay Area Alumni

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    Less than 48 hours after going online, the tickets were gone....

  • headshots of four HCII faculty: Kittur, Forlizzi, Rose and Myers

    Four from HCII Receive Google Faculty Research Awards

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    Selected from more than one thousand proposals, four faculty members from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute have received 2017 Google Faculty Research Awards. Google hopes these col...

  • Louise Zhou headshot

    Zhou is Fulbright Winner

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    Louise Zhou, who graduated last year with a double major in business administration and human-computer interaction, is one of five Carnegie Mellon University recipients of Fulbright Awards...

  • Greg Coticchia

    Q&A with Greg Coticchia

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    Greg Coticchia, the executive director of Carnegie Mellon University’s new Master of Science in Product Management program, recently discussed the joint program between the School of Compu...

  • Jessica Hammer receives the 2018 Teaching Innovation Award from the CMU provost

    Hammer Receives 2018 Teaching Innovation Award

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    Jessica Hammer, assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, jointly appointed in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) and the Entertainment Technology Center (ETC), has r...

  • screenshot of the mobile-friendly Bento dashboard with color-coded search categories at the top of the screen

    Bento Browser Makes It Easier To Search On Mobile Devices

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    Searches involving multiple websites can quickly get confusing, particularly when performed on a mobile device with a small screen. A new web browser developed at Carnegie Mellon Universit...

  • Understanding The Cybersecurity Grapevine

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    Social Networks Are Sources Of Security Tips ...

  • a piece of flat, white plastic being dipped in warm water and folding into a rose

    Thermorph: Flat Materials Self-Fold When Heated

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    Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have used an inexpensive 3-D printer to produce flat plastic items that, when heated, fold themselves into predetermined shapes, such as a rose, a...

  • Two men stand in front of a white wall. The locations of where they are touching the wall are visible on a nearby laptop screen.

    Paint Job Transforms Walls Into Sensors, Interactive Surfaces

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    Smart Walls React to Human Touch, Sense Activity in Room...

  • the Bronze Age Innovations display with digital rails in the front at the Field Museum

    Digital Exhibit Labels: Enhancement or Distraction for Museum Visitors

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    Does a touchscreen display distract visitors from the cultural museum artifacts it supports? ...

  • a hand holding a mobile phone with the Evorus chat window open

    Crowd Workers, AI Make Conversational Agents Smarter

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    Conversational agents such as Siri, Alexa and Cortana are great at giving you the weather, but flummoxed when asked for unusual information or follow-up questions. By adding humans to the ...