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HCII at CHI 2018
NEWSOver 3,000 of the world’s top researchers, scientists, and designers are traveling to Montréal this week for CHI 2018, the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. The pr...
Sara Kiesler Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
NEWSSara Kiesler, Hillman Chair Emerita of Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sci...
PhD and Postdoc Win Gold Awards at Reimagine Education Competition
NEWSUsing mixed-reality to reimagine the classroom from both sides -- an Intelligent Science Station for students and smart glasses for teachers -- earned Gold Awards for an HCII PhD student a...
HCII Team Tests Fitness Tracker for Wheelchair Athletes at NWBT
NEWS“It’s like all of March Madness in one weekend,” said Patrick Carrington, postdoctoral research fellow at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, of the National Wheelchair Basketball To...
The Shape of Pasta: HCII Assistant Professor Morphs Matter
NEWSLining Yao came of age in a small village in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Like most families in her town, she didn't have a computer. She didn't even have a television. On t...
Support HCI Team and Stroke Patients by Voting in Chasing Genius Innovation Challenge
NEWSUprooting beets on an augmented reality farm could soon help recovering stroke victims improve their motor skills if a team of human-computer interaction students receives enough votes by ...
Blanket Statements: Covering a Quarter-Century of Wearable Tech
NEWSLook closer -- the sixteen squares of a quilt found in 3513 Newell-Simon Hall share a quarter-century of technological developments and the birth of the wearable computing industry....
Siewiorek Honored With IEEE's Booth Education Award
NEWSDaniel P. Siewiorek, the Buhl University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), has been named the 2018...
Spring Capstones in Full Swing at HCII
NEWSFor several of the majors in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, the spring semester is synonymous with capstone projects. And now that spring break is upon us, capstone projects are...
SCS Scientists Receive Sloan Research Fellowships
NEWSSchool of Computer Science faculty members Chris Harrison, Bryan Parno, Andrew Pavlo and Andreas Pfenning have received 2018 Sloan Research Fellowships, which honor early career scholars ...
HCII Welcomes First Alumni & Corporate Relations Coordinator
NEWSHuman-Computer Interaction Institute alumni may have noticed that messages from the alumni listserv are coming from a new, yet familiar name. The HCII team is excited to announce Jessica S...