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Q&A with Greg Coticchia
NEWSGreg 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...
Hammer Receives 2018 Teaching Innovation Award
NEWSJessica Hammer, assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, jointly appointed in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) and the Entertainment Technology Center (ETC), has r...
Bento Browser Makes It Easier To Search On Mobile Devices
NEWSSearches 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
NEWSSocial Networks Are Sources Of Security Tips ...
Thermorph: Flat Materials Self-Fold When Heated
NEWSResearchers 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...
Paint Job Transforms Walls Into Sensors, Interactive Surfaces
NEWSSmart Walls React to Human Touch, Sense Activity in Room...
Digital Exhibit Labels: Enhancement or Distraction for Museum Visitors
NEWSDoes a touchscreen display distract visitors from the cultural museum artifacts it supports? ...
Crowd Workers, AI Make Conversational Agents Smarter
NEWSConversational 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 ...
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...